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Honduras wants to build West's only island prison colony and lock gangsters inside

Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there

The Independent UK

Life imitates art as El Salvador pressures book fair to bar dissenting writer

Barbers on Strike, author Michelle Recinos’s collection of short stories, has apparently upset strongman president Nayib Bukele

The Guardian - US

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele nominated for re-election despite constitutional questions

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has been nominated by his New Ideas party to run for reelection in next year’s contest

The Independent UK

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Fleeing rape, beatings and murder, migrant families find solace at shelter in Mexicali

In a small room with one light bulb and six bunk beds, Jhosseline Estefanie Argeta Morales, 31, of El Salvador sits on a lower bed organizing a small bag of toiletries at Cobina Posada Del Migrante, a shelter for migrant families in Mexicali, Mexico.

Los Angeles Times

Amid criticism over his war on gangs, El Salvador's President Bukele turns to sports

The 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games have offered El Salvador President Bukele an opportunity

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on El Salvador’s crime crackdown: a short-term, high cost fix

Editorial: President Nayib Bukele’s hardline campaign against gangs has won admirers at home and abroad. Look closer and its flaws are glaring

The Guardian - UK

Where all four groups stand after Round 1 of the Gold Cup group stage

MIAMI — Tuesday marked the last day of an eventful Round 1 in the group stage of the Gold Cup. After the first round, here’s a look at how all of the groups have played so far and what’s next for each team.

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Honduras copies El Salvador's playbook in anti-gang crackdown

Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele

The Independent UK

Honduras pool hall shooting may be linked to prison massacre that killed 46, say police

Honduras has started an El Salvador-style mass sweep of prisons and arrested a suspect in a pool-hall shooting last week that killed 11 people

The Independent UK

El Salvador's president registers for reelection despite constitutional objections

El Salvador's president has registered for reelection in next February’s contest even though legal experts and opposition figures who say the country’s constitution prohibits it

The Independent UK

Europe's Bitcoin-Busting Mistake

The E.U.'s new virtual currency regulations will endanger privacy and trigger an exodus of tech talent from Europe, hobbling its role in the future of finance.

Reason

Near miss for Aussie Tyler Wright at El Salvador Pro

Australia's Tyler Wright has gone down to Caroline Marks in the final of the El Salvador Pro world surf event, maintaining her world No.2 ranking.

AAP

Pastors find a role ministering to young men swept up in El Salvador's crackdown on gangs

Over the past 15 months, El Salvador’s security forces have jailed tens of thousands of people in a massive crackdown on the country’s notorious gangs

The Independent UK

Storm scuppers El Salvador surf event for fourth day

The wait goes on for Aussie surfers Steph Gilmore, Tyler Wright and Liam O'Brien, with their El Salvador Pro semi-finals delayed for a fourth-straight day.

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The National (Scotland)

Watch Celtic star Kyogo Furuhashi net impressive goal on Japan international return

This is the moment Kyogo Furuhashi netted for Japan against El Salvador in an international friendly clash this afternoon.

Glasgow Live

Celtic star Kyogo Furuhashi scores for Japan as Reo Hatate starts in thumping win over El Salvador

The Hoops striker - who netted 34 club goals in all competitions last season - took that scoring touch onto the international scene as he climbed off the bench to net Japan's sixth goal of the game

AAP

Wait goes on at El Salvador world surf event

The WSL's El Salvador Pro has called another lay-day, leaving Australian surfers Steph Gilmore, Tyler Wright and Liam O'Brien stalled at the semi-final stage.

The Independent UK

Biden to extend legal status for 4 nationalities, reversing Trump but irking some

The Biden administration says it will extend legal status by 18 months for more than 300,000 people from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal

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WEKU

'The Wind Knows My Name' is a reference and a refrain in the search for home

Isabel Allende's latest is a tale of two child immigrants — a boy who escapes Nazi occupied Vienna in 1938 and a girl who escapes military gangs in El Salvador in 2019 — and their shared experience.

LiveScience

The 12 biggest volcanic eruptions in recorded history

From Krakatoa to the Tonga blast, here are some of the biggest volcanic eruptions in recorded history.

The Independent UK

Guatemala's presidential hopefuls channel heavy-handed tactics of El Salvador's leader

Candidates to be Guatemala’s next president are pushing a neighbor’s controversial success into the race

The Independent UK

El Salvador soccer executives dodge prison with payment to stampede victims' families

Five soccer club executives and stadium officials arrested for their alleged roles in the stampede at an El Salvador league game that left nine fans dead and dozens injured will avoid prison by making payments to the injured and relatives of dead

Reuters

El Salvador president pledges white-collar prison in 'war' on corruption

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Thursday announced a bill to slim down the country's political system as he launched a "war against corruption" and pledged to build a prison to hold white-collar criminals.

Daily Mirror

Inside the brutal El Salvador jail that's packed with 67,000 prisoners where 153 died

Four woman were among the 153 convicts to have died while in El Salvadorean state custody since officials began locking thousands of members of its powerful street gangs in mega jails across the Central American country

The Independent UK

Report: At least 153 people arrested under special powers have died in Salvadoran prisons

At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country’s powerful street gangs have died in state custody

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