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📰 Letters on Exile: From Central America to Chile to Equatorial Guinea This third issue of Central America Monthly looks at the growing ranks of political refugees: From Nicaragua to Guatemala to El Salvador, a new Central American exile is upon us. beta.elfaro.net/en/monthly/iss…

Starting in the 1970s, Mexican foreign policy allowed Salvadoran exiles freedom while keeping them under surveillance. Mexico City was a political-military bridge and rear guard for these exiles, who found allies in the Mexican Left. beta.elfaro.net/en/the-tertuli…

No-one uttered the word “exile.” My father did not say it because I imagine he never in his life thought of sending one of his sons into “exile,” writes Equatorial Guinean artist Nzé Esono Ebalé. I did not say it either, but I felt it. beta.elfaro.net/en/by-invitati…

I left my house in the early morning with a suitcase and a backpack. I thought I would be away only briefly, while the emergency passed, writes Guatemalan journalist Julia Corado, former director of @el_Periodico now in exile. beta.elfaro.net/en/by-invitati…

Ngu’s is not a unique case. In the courtyard of the Siglo XXI migration, near the Guatemala border, thousands of Africans are fleeing dictatorships and corrupt regimes supported by European governments in exchange for protecting European corporations that profit from extracting…

Starting in the 1970s, there was no consistent policy of persecution of Salvadorans in Mexico, but the Interior Ministry monitored the activities of Salvadoran exiles and interaction with Mexican activists. beta.elfaro.net/en/the-tertuli…

The Bukele regime has intensified its attacks and embarked on a repressive path of no return, bent on eliminating all obstacles to absolute power. It can only achieve this by death, imprisonment, exile, or fear of these measures. #efEditorial beta.elfaro.net/en/el-faro-wei…

For Jorge Beltrán Luna, a journalist for El Diario de Hoy, El Salvador is no longer a viable place for journalism. Beltrán Luna flew to Guatemala on June 14 with a few things in his luggage, leaving his family behind and facing an uncertain future. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-ame…

On the heels of El Faro reporting in May, dozens of YouTubers and self-proclaimed Salvadoran “political analysts” came out to demand the authors’ arrest. All the documents published by El Faro, other outlets, and the U.S. government no longer mattered. beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight/a…

From Nicaragua to Guatemala to El Salvador, a new exile is upon us. There is somber poetry to the fact that El Faro is telling this perpetual story of Central America from outside the country that birthed it. beta.elfaro.net/en/letter-from…

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Letters on Exile: From Central America to Chile to Equatorial Guinea This third issue of Central America Monthly looks at the growing ranks of political refugees: From Nicaragua to Guatemala to El Salvador, a new Central American exile is upon us. beta.elfaro.net/en/monthly/iss…

Since 2023, the Ortega-Murillo regime has stripped at least 452 Nicaraguans of citizenship, political rights and confiscating properties as well as the passports of loved ones remaining in the country. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-audi…

In Nicaragua, three days before the anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, the regime renamed the archive illegally confiscated from @UCAdeNicaragua. Ortega and Murillo are flexing their total control over the national university system. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-audi…

I am part of that generation of Chilean journalists who learned to do journalism in exile, writes Mónica González, director of @FundacionGabo. We naïvely said that if they lied, we would “shoot” with the truth: our best weapon. beta.elfaro.net/en/by-invitati…

After this prolonged exile, independent journalism will have to tell the story of the fall of a dictatorship — and how the monumental task of rebuilding Nicaragua begins, writes exiled Nicaraguan journalist @cefeche. beta.elfaro.net/en/by-invitati…

It is 2019. Central America’s Pacific maritime migration route has moved north of the Mexico-Guatemala border. The migrants making the crossing have changed, too: Thousands of Africans traverse half the planet to reach the United States. beta.elfaro.net/en/from-the-ar…

The Bukele regime has intensified its attacks and embarked on a repressive path of no return, bent on eliminating all obstacles to absolute power. It can only achieve this by death, imprisonment, exile, or fear of these measures. #efEditorial beta.elfaro.net/en/el-faro-wei…

Between May and June 2025, at least 40 journalists and an unknown number of human rights defenders left El Salvador amid escalating political arrests. A new exile is emerging, of those who do not think like Bukele — and say so. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-ame…

May and June marked the great exodus of Salvadoran journalists and human rights and environmental activists. A growing exile had been trickling since Bukele came to power, but had never been as massive and evident as it is now. beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight/a…

From Nicaragua to Guatemala to El Salvador, a new exile is upon us. There is somber poetry to the fact that El Faro is telling this perpetual story of Central America from outside the country that birthed it. beta.elfaro.net/en/letter-from…