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El Salvador

8 posts

News & Analysis

Latin America’s Leading Investigative Reporters Take Their Stories to Rio

by Ana Beatriz Assam and Andrea Arzaba • November 29, 2022

Accusations of sexual harassment against the head of a state-owned bank, the transnational growth and influence of Salvadorian gang MS13, and the striking accumulation of wealth by the president and his family in one of the poorest countries in Central America. These were some of the investigative topics among the prize-winning stories featured at the 2022 Latin American Conference on Investigative Journalism.

News & Analysis

Under Attack: El Faro’s Gutsy Reporting in Latin America

by Santiago Villa • July 15, 2021

Since 1998, El Faro has fought for accountability in El Salvador, a Central American country saddled with stubborn poverty, a history of civil conflict, and pervasive criminal gangs. But after decades of investigating criminal organizations, corruption, and illegal practices by security forces, the newspaper might be facing one of its greatest challenges yet.

How to Investigate Forced Disappearances in Latin America

by Diego Granda • September 29, 2020

How should journalists investigate what has happened to people who have disappeared? What is the best way of dealing with their families, the organized crime groups often involved in the cases, and corrupt officials? Mexican investigative journalist Marcela Turati and Óscar Martínez from El Salvador, both specialists on reporting on transnational organized crime, shared their tips during GIJN’s Spanish language webinar.

Case Studies

Governments Delay Access to Information Due to COVID-19

by Toby McIntosh • March 31, 2020

Governments around the world, some which have sent workers home, are announcing interruptions in responding to freedom of information requests. Journalists are being told to expect delays in more than a dozen countries. But press freedom advocates warn that countries are taking big steps backward just when the free flow of information is most needed. GIJN’s Toby McIntosh rounds up some of the nations which have been affected.

News & Analysis

Uncomfortable Questions, Difficult Answers and a Moving Journalism Conference in Central America

by Catalina Lobo-Guerrero • June 10, 2019

The last time GIJN Spanish Editor Catalina Lobo-Guerrero was in El Salvador, she was so shaken up by stories of violence and sexism towards women there that she ended up writing an Op-Ed for The New York Times with the following opening line: “I don’t want to go back to El Salvador.” But last month she returned to the country to attend the ForoCAP, the Central American Journalism Forum.

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