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    El Faro English
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    May 15
    🗞️ 28 Years of Truth-Telling. Since 1998, El Faro has told the uncomfortable truth. In that mission, El Faro English translates Central America, bringing our award-winning reporting to global audiences. Thanks for your support. Celebrate with us by subscribing today. 👇️
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    El Faro English
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    Sep 4, 2020
    #efLATEST | In a new investigation, El Faro reveals that the Bukele administration has been negotiating with MS-13 for a year to reduce homicides and gain electoral support. Read in Spanish here: elfaro.net/es/202009/el_s…
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    El Faro English
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    Sep 16, 2022
    #Breaking: Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has just announced he will seek re-election in 2024, a move explicitly prohibited by the Salvadoran constitution.
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    El Faro English
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    Feb 15, 2022
    #Breaking: A protected witness claims that the president of #Guatemala negotiated in 2019 a bribe to his electoral campaign worth $2.6 million from a network of construction firms.
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    Witness Accuses Guatemalan President of Funding Campaign with Construction Bribes
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    El Faro English
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    Feb 16, 2022
    Tonight @_elfaro_'s @jlsanz and @JLobo2011 will hold a #TwitterSpace with exiled prosecutor @JSandoval1982 about the evidence that the president of #Guatemala negotiated construction bribes for his 2019 campaign. Read more: elfaro.net/en/202202/cent… x.com/i/spaces/1MYxN…
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    Witness Accuses Guatemalan President of Funding Campaign with Construction Bribes
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    El Faro English
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    May 3, 2025
    🎥 Chapter 3: “When the call came in, they took off my handcuffs” In January, El Faro interviewed two leaders of the 18th Street Revolucionarios gang who not only cut deals for years with the entourage of Nayib Bukele, but also escaped the country with the complicity of his
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    El Faro English
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    Sep 15, 2021
    On the 200th anniversary of Central American independence from Spain, demonstrators have gathered in San Salvador in the largest anti-government protests since President Bukele took office in June of 2019. 📸@chelefaro, Cuscatlán Park.
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    El Faro English
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    Aug 24, 2021
    NEW: A criminal investigation in #ElSalvador found that the Bukele administration moved to cover up evidence of the government's covert negotiations with MS-13 and Barrio 18.
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    Criminal Investigation Found the Bukele Administration Hid Evidence of Negotiations with Gangs
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    El Faro English
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    Jul 26, 2024
    🇸🇻From April to June 2023, the Salvadoran Presidency paid $325,000 to lobby politicians and influencers close to the MAGA movement, according to DOJ filings. Several of these interlocutors attended Bukele’s unconstitutional inauguration, reports @Jim_alva.
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    Bukele Lobbyist Received $325,000 in Three Months to Court MAGA Politicians
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    El Faro English
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    May 4, 2021
    "On this front, on every front, we must respond." U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly's illegal removal and replacement of five magistrates from the Supreme Court's Constitutional Chamber and the Attorney General this weekend in #ElSalvador.
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    Jun 6, 2021
    "We're not against Kamala Harris's diplomatic visit, but rather her interference and blackmail in return for aid," said Society In Action, a group of 20 which calls itself "the real civil society," in a protest with the Veterans' Association outside the Air Force of #Guatemala.
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    El Faro English
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    May 18, 2022
    EXCLUSIVE: Audios of top Bukele administration official reveal that the record spike in homicides in March was the result of the collapse of negotiations between MS-13 and the government of #ElSalvador.
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    Collapsed Government Talks with MS-13 Sparked Record Homicides in El Salvador, Audios Reveal
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    El Faro English
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    Jan 27, 2024
    🚨EXCLUSIVE: The Bukele administration was willing to pay over one million dollars to Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel and to the Salvadoran 18th Street Sureños gang if they helped re-capture MS-13 leader “Crook” before the 2024 elections.
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    Salvadoran Government Conspired with Gang Leader to Recapture ‘Crook’ through Jalisco Cartel
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    El Faro English
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    May 4, 2025
    🚨“We have received reliable information that the Salvadoran Attorney General’s Office is preparing arrest warrants for El Faro journalists,” announces El Faro director @CarlosDada.
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    El Faro
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    May 3, 2025
    “Hemos recibido información confiable de que la Fiscalía General está preparando órdenes de captura contra periodistas de El Faro”, informó hoy @CarlosDada, director de El Faro. 🧵 Mira esta conversación: youtube.com/watch?v=bQSpOf…
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