In 2021 he was a candidate for the presidency of Nicaragua, but Daniel Ortega’s government imprisoned him for 611 days, stripped him of his nationality and deported him to the United States a year ago, along with more than 200 opponents. Félix Maradiaga, 47, president of the Foundation for Freedom […]
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With a new name and expanded format, the Concacaf Champions Cup gets underway on Tuesday with 27 participating teams and the presence of Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami as the main attraction. The Argentine star will have the opportunity to add North, Central America and the Caribbean’s most important tournament to […]
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, proclaimed his reelection this Sunday by attributing more than 85% of the votes to himself, and said he had “pulverized” the opposition by winning almost the entire Congress, thanks to his controversial “war” against gangs. “El Salvador has broken all the records of […]
Former President Ricardo Martinelli launched his campaign for the May 5 presidential elections on Saturday at a rally with thousands of followers, a day after his candidacy was put at risk by an unappealable court ruling. The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the last appeal Martinelli had left to overturn […]
Polls opened in El Salvador Sunday with victory in the bag for incumbent President Nayib Bukele thanks to his no-holds-barred war on gangs that has slashed homicide rates in a violence-weary nation. For the first time since civil war ended in 1992, the Central American country will vote under a […]
Eleven people, including nine Cuban migrants, died on Saturday in a collision between a truck, a motorcycle and a truck on a route in western Guatemala, authorities reported. The accident occurred early in the morning on a highway in the department of Suchitepéquez, about 120 km from the Guatemalan capital. […]
The Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele is not worried about being labeled authoritarian or a human rights violator. At the peak of popularity, he describes himself as the “cool dictator” who transformed and rescued a country terrorized by gangs. With the support of 90% of Salvadorans, this 42-year-old millennial publicist, the […]
Panama’s Police found Cardinal José Luis Lacunza, who had been missing since Tuesday, safe on Thursday in a rural area, the institution reported. Lacunza, 79 years old and born in Spain, was found by the agents inside his all-terrain vehicle in a semi-wooded area more than 40 km from the […]
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s war on gangs is credited with slashing homicide rates and restoring security and dignity to citizens of what was once one of the world’s most dangerous countries. The price, say observers and victims, is paid in arbitrary arrests, inhumane detention, even torture — and fear of […]
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s war on gangs is credited with slashing homicide rates and restoring security and dignity to citizens of what was once one of the world’s most dangerous countries. The price, say observers and victims, is paid in arbitrary arrests, inhumane detention, even torture — and fear of […]