Joe Biden stepping into the White House as president has broken the pact formed between the United States and Central America during the Trump administration: U.S. silence about corruption and the ...

El Faro is an award-winning Central American news outlet that produces in-depth and investigative journalism on many platforms, including audio, documentary films, and books. Founded in San Salvador ...

This is an adaptation of an article originally published in Plaza Pública as COVID19: La educación a distancia en un país con poco internet On Saturday, March 14, Guatemalan president Alejandro ...

It was a few days after Bukele announced a “state of exception” in El Salvador that the human rights ombudsman (PDDH) sounded the alarm, noting the abhorrent quarantine conditions for arrivals in the ...

Emilio Rodriguez was the first in his family to migrate to the United States. He left two months ago with his 9-year-old son, who is one more name on the list of 2,300 children separated from their ...

The massive crowds of people in the streets last Monday, trying to collect their $300 dollar subsidy meant to compensate for their lost income from the COVID-19 emergency, has laid bare the miserable ...

The makeshift houses made of black plastic and bamboo line the road cutting through the lush green valley in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. Rumors of a pending eviction permeate the small ...

The Red Cross has arrived to the communities in the so-called Dry Corridor. It has brought them aid double the cost of what was promised by the government, and six months into the pandemic, it’s the ...

Nayib Bukele ended his first year in office on June 1 besieged by the Covid-19 pandemic and reeling from the devastation of Tropical Storm Amanda, the latter of which, last weekend alone, left over a ...