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Producer Andres Guillen sits down with our Honduran News Curator, Jalileh Garcia, to talk about the state of Honduran politics following a historic election.
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Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/thousands-of-nicaraguans-are-packing-their-bags-to-flee-718369
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/costa-rica-leads-afro-descendant-forum-creation-at-the-u-n-710571
Audio Sources: Noticias Repretel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_-TQHWbTOg
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Audio Clips:
P Diddy Interviews Shyne Barrow
Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren
Translation: “Sanchez Ceren has an arrest warrant with red notice from Interpol because according to the El Salvador District Attorney, Ceren received $530 thousand dollars when he served as Vice President of President Mauricio Funes, who in turn has 6 arrest warrants for various acts of corruption.”
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/police-violence-in-belize-more-soldiers-in-el-salvador-695291
Audio Sources:
La Prensa Gráfica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c_8jH9_vuA
Podcast Hosts:
Cecilia Rivas and José Luis Martínez
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/a-covid-19-surge-in-central-america-689617
Episode Newsletter
Audio Clip Sources:
Tony Herrera of Belize's UDP
Alex Garcia, Guatemalan Demonstrator
Clip Translation: "Our friend, Frank Ramazzini Veliz, a man that dedicated himself to investigating the penitentiary system and the national civil police, and was vilely killed, and extrajudicial death, an assasination."
Podcast Co-hosts: José Luis MartInez and Cecilia Rivas
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/the-u-s-goes-after-the-dirty-55-673989
Guatevision - Black Fungus: https://www.prensalibre.com/guatemala/comunitario/hongo-negro-guatemala-registra-el-primer-caso-de-mucormicosis-breaking/?utm_campaign=Central%20American%20News&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
Channel 5 Belize News - 11th Amendment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiwMXR2-xD8
Podcast Co-hosts: Cecilia Rivas and José Luis Martínez
Episode Newsletter - Diasporas Matter
Audio Sources:
Nelton Rivera - Guatemala
Eduardo Ortega - Panama
Podcast Co-hosts: José Luis Martinez and Cecilia Rivas
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/18-politicians-feminists-and-former-guerrilleros-arrested-654171
Audio clips:
Michel Chebat, Belize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggQ95dWgh1w
Podcast Co-hosts: José Luis Martínez and Cecilia Rivas
Speakers:
Dr. Campbell Harvey from Duke University
Nelson Rauda from El Faro
Ricardo Castaneda from the Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies
Podcast Host:José Luis Martínez
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/tools-to-silence-646337
Audio Clips of Nicaraguant Presidentical Candidates by 4to Mono: https://www.4tomono.com/distopia/ortega-ejecuta-operacion-danto-para-acomodar-su-escenario-electoral/
Audio Clip of Panama's Marine Authority by La Estrella de Panamá: https://www.laestrella.com.pa/nacional/210610/inicia-investigaciones-contaminacion-taboga?utm_campaign=Central%20American%20News&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
Podcast Co-hosts: Cecilia Rivas and José Luis Martínez
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/kamala-harris-in-guatemala-bitcoin-in-el-salvador-638739
Audio Clips:
Reuters Clip - Kamala Harris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5dxMmfM2_4
KXAN Clip - Governor Abbot: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/gov-greg-abbott-issues-disaster-declaration-in-response-to-surge-at-texas-mexico-border/?utm_campaign=Central%20American%20News&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
Podca
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/nicaragua-s-first-black-presidential-candidate-629982
Audio Clips:
Froyla Tzalam clip from Love FM
UN Spokesperson, Marta Hurtado clip from 4tomono
Podcast Co-hosts: Cecilia Rivas and José Luis Martínez
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/que-pasa-en-panama-mining-police-and-borders-617571
Audio Byte of Public Service Minister Henry Charles Usher speaking to Channel 5 Belize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4h_f5o-hq0
Audio Byte of Carlos Chamorro from Confidencial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_CMWVVYpuM&t=168s
Podcast Co-hosts: Cecilia Rivas and José Luis Martínez
Episode Newsletter
Audio Quotes:
Quote from Ministry of Tourism, Morena Valdez, to Orbita TV
Podcast Hosts: Cecilia Rivas and José Luis Martínez
Episode Newsletter
Audio Clips:
Channel 5 Belize - Joint Unions in Belize show Strenght in Numbers
Prensa Comunitaria - Resident of the Tzibanay village speaks on lack of government aid after hurricane aftermath
Podcast Hosts: Cecilia Rivas and José Luis Martínez
Episode Newsletter
DW Español audio clip of protester talking about El Salvador's situation involving the removal of magistrates
Podcast Hosts: Cecilia Rivas and José Luis Martínez
Episode Newsletter
Audio Sources:
President Bukele on Escazú Agreement
Violations the days preceding and following the third anniversary of the Abril 2018 rebellion
Podcast Hosts: Cecilia Rivas and José Luis Martínez
Episode Newsletter
Audio Clips:
BuzzFeed's Craig Silverman on Facebook's Failures to Stop Misinformation | Amanpour and Company
Attorney making case against Arquesio Arias
Podcast Hosts: Cecilia Rivas and José Luis Martínez
Episode Newsletter Here
Audio clips:
Edwin Aguilar Here
Translation: “I’m proud to be from El Salvador and say, ‘I work at the simpsons.’ As a Latino, one should trust that they can succeed and that goals without a plan are just dreams.”
Episode Newsletter
Audio Clips:
Channel 5 Belize News on Unaccompanied Belizean Child
Gerardo Torres Zelaya to Al Jazeera on Tony Hernandez
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/gentrification-of-guatemala-462134
Audio Clips:
Raúl Melara on "Ghost Workers" in Legislative Assembly
EFE Report on Geovanny Fuentes Ramírez who was convicted for cocaine trafficking
Episode Newsletter from Central American News
Audio Clip: Protester Carla Nelson on the Senniaf Case from DW
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/8m2021-in-central-america-424123
Audio Clips:
Lottie Cunningham, president of the Center for Justice and Human Rights of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (CEJUDHCAN). Talks about what territorial land means to Indigenous communitiesYariela López Brown, Subdirecotr of the General Basic Center of Guabito, Panamá. She speaks about the main benefit that the binational bridge creates.
Episode Newsletter:
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/bukele-wins-the-legislative-assembly-401423
Audio Clips:
Panamá Grey List
https://twitter.com/prensacom/status/1365009502135857155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1365009502135857155%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prensa.com%2Feconomia%2Fel-gafi-mantiene-a-panama-en-su-lista-sancionatoria%2F
Episode Newsletter:
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/what-are-central-american-migrants-fleeing-in-2021-382368
Audio Clips:
Pailazo Nacional in Panamá - Panamá América
https://www.panamaamerica.com.pa/sociedad/pailazo-nacional-contra-supuestos-abusos-maltratos-menores-en-albergues-1181905
Norma Martínez, Mother of Keyla Martínez from Honduras - El Heraldo
https://www.elheraldo.hn/sucesos/1443636-466/keyla-martinez-homicidio-honduras-policias-hijos-adoptivos
Mayor of Libera - Space Agency in Costa Rica - Noticias Repretel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGi7qDGowII
Episode Newletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/we-just-want-to-play-359823
Audio Clips:
Carlos Chamorro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY8jswBYtlM&t=96s
Translation: “According to epidemiologists and health experts, never in the last 25 years has an increase in mortality of this magnitude been produced by causes related to health. But the ministers of the Ministry of Health, not health workers, have mocked the suffering of thousands of Nicaraguan families.”
Fatima Perez: https://twitter.com/Chuzalfonso_elP/status/1360631175115595776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1360631175115595776%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felperiodico.com.gt%2Fnacionales%2F2021%2F02%2F13%2Fninas-y-adolescentes-exigen-justicia-proteccion-y-paz-1%2F
Translation: “I just want to live in peace, play in peace without anyone bothering me. That's all I ask of the authorities. I want to play and be free without anyone attacking us. I just want to live in peace.”
Episode Newsletter:
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/political-violence-in-el-salvador-ahead-of-elections-318879
Audio Clips Sources
Economist Roger Arteaga speaks to Confidencial about customer protection law
https://confidencial.com.ni/economia/ley-que-protege-a-sancionados-causaria-una-catastrofe-en-la-banca/?utm_campaign=Central%20American%20News&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
Translation: If Nicaragua forces banks to do this, the FATFA, which is the Financial Action Task Force who is the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog, will move them from the grey to black list. This would block all international operations that Nicaragua partakes in. It wouldn’t just be banks.
Speaker for the National Coordination for Disaster Reduction of Guatemala speaks to Canal Antigua about the Pacaya Volcano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oo4TQ3_XDs
Translation: He said that the volcano has had moderate and strong eruptions that reach 3200 meters above sea level. There are also fine ash particles in surrounding communities and ballistic like volcanic material shooting up to 5oo meters. There are rumbles and sounds similar to a locomotive train.
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/belizean-cops-can-now-wear-dreadlocks-310863
Audio Clip Sources:
Leslie Mendez on Supreme Court ruling in Belize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cthrPhWPH24
Erick Ortiz, El Salvador: https://www.efe.com/efe/america/politica/discriminacion-e-inclusion-puntos-en-la-agenda-de-los-candidatos-lgtbi-salvadorenos/20000035-4450996?utm_campaign=Central%20American%20News&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
Translation: “To this day, we can’t identify any legislation that protects us as LGBT individuals. Not a single legislation that responds to the challenges and realities that we face. So it’s necessary that we have some representation on the assembly.”
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/a-panamanian-in-biden-s-administration-309046
Audio Clip Sources:
Gwinnett's new sheriff gets rid of county's controversial 287(g) program, 11ALIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjAgVJAwtD0&t=204s
Michael Healy, president of the leading business chamber in the nation, Superior Council for Private Enterprise, Confidencial
https://www.11alive.com/video/news/local/gwinnetts-new-sheriff-gets-rid-of-countys-controversial-287g-program/85-08dfa809-2d5a-49b4-9e47-7db8d7ff465b?utm_campaign=Central%20American%20News&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/when-borders-are-countries-307047
Audio Clip Sources:
Nicaragua purchas of vaccines, Confidencial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ5P6kvtRiI
Migrant caravan from Honduras, Univision
https://www.univision.com/noticias/america-latina/honduras-200-migrantes-hondurenos-rumbo-a-eeuu-covid-huracanes?utm_campaign=Central%20American%20News&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/central-american-news-is-back-301033
Audio Clip Sources:
Migrant Caravans, Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-immigration-caravans/in-central-america-tensions-rise-as-soldiers-aim-to-stop-migrants-idUSL1N2JK04Y?utm_campaign=Central%20American%20News&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
ABC News on President of Honduras: https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/president-honduras-accused-helping-traffic-cocaine-us-75167034
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/our-last-newsletter-in-2020-tps-vaccines-and-feminist-indigenous-hope-for-a-new-guatemala-299357
Audio clips:
Caravan Migrant on France 24: https://www.france24.com/es/am%C3%A9rica-latina/20201210-caravana-migrantes-eeuu-honduras Translation: “My reason for migrating to the US, is that I have lost everything. Our plea as immigrants to the incoming president is that he help us. We can’t live here anymore."
Nancy Guevara Marquez: https://www.efe.com/efe/english/destacada/a-new-generation-demands-justice-for-el-mozote-massacre-in-salvador/50000261-4417443 Translation: “We don’t feel we are moving forward because they are not willing to open military archives. We hoped that we would set a precedent for the new generations so that this is not repeated.”
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/hurricanes-affect-1-5-million-children-297517
Audio Clips:
Mark Morgan: https://www.yahoo.com/now/federal-judge-orders-restoration-daca-125041449.html
Protests in Guatemala: https://twitter.com/PrensaComunitar/status/1335313068193157128?s=20 Mauricio Arriaza Chicas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmOLxLPQIQs
Translation: "All police activity has been and is based on the constitution, general laws, and with strict attention to human rights."
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/the-revolution-of-the-beaners-295738
**Audio Clip Sources and Translations:
1) Prime Minsiter John Briceño on having COVID-19 https://www.facebook.com/119553227554/videos/158186819340564/
2) Guatemalan student demonstrators heading to the central plaza. https://twitter.com/PrensaComunitar/status/1332776966672572419
Translation: “I’d rather be a beaner than a thief.”**
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/guatemalans-burn-congress-building-achieve-suspension-of-controversial-bill-293982
**Audio Clip Sources and Translations:
1) Guatemala Finance Minister: https://twitter.com/lahoragt/status/1330917641465294849 Translation: "And we continue with the same strategy. The strategy is to convene all the sectors of the country and listen to their observations in an open and public manner, like everything we have done."
2) Honduran Community Member on Iota: https://www.telemundohouston.com/fotosyvideos/el-paraiso-por-donde-entro-el-huracan-iota-a-honduras/2142288/
Translation:** "It inundated our home, our harvest, as you can see, the tillage, beans, it left us totally barren."
Episode Newletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/nicaragua-will-re-establish-life-sentences-292280
Audio Clip Sources and translations:Cecilia Muñoz: https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-obama-official-defends-immigrant-deportations/
John Briceño: https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=2759924730921880&_rdr
Abelino Iquí, from Cobán in Prensa Comunitaria: https://twitter.com/PrensaComunitar/status/1328009203026436096?s=20Translation:
Abelino: "I tried to call the local authorities for help, but they were non-responsive."
interviewer: "You haven't received aid from the municipality, from Alta Verapaz government, or the government?"
Abelino: "No, we have not received anything"
Interviewer: "We are seeing the community is surrounded by water, that means you can't go out and there is no way out"
Abelino: "No we have no way out"
Interviewer: " You are not working or planting for this harvest?"
Abelino: "No, nothing, we are not working."
Interviewer: "Do you have electricity?"
Abelino: "We have no electricity."
Interviewer: "Do you have potable water?"
Abelino: "We have nothing."
Episode newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/after-the-hurricane-290447
Milena Mayorga quote: https://twitter.com/milenamayorga/status/1325788440345108487?s=21
Translation:" Additionally, I will look for companies that sponsor work visas so that Salvadoran workers can use this permit to go work in the US temporarily or seasonally.
Honduran resident quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ7Fa9cBOGQ
Translation: "We started running away because the water from the river went inside the houses, we had to leave everything because we were scared that the river currents would take us with all of our things."
Uni
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/panama-ranks-high-and-low-288688
Anastasia Mejia interview with Prensa Comunitaria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UqYSZ-b31Q
Community member affected by mudslide: https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/video/deslave-nejapa-el-salvador-alud-4-sobrevivientes-9-muertos-35-desaparecidos-live-merlin-delcid-perspectivas-mexico/
Episode Newsletter:
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/trump-s-harm-to-central-americans-286961
Luis Almagro's words on OAS deadline for Nicaragua: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhAOGg6KNiE
Guatemalan Demonstrator's words at protest: https://www.facebook.com/303455713105608/videos/353685555744930
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/costa-rica-s-myths-285139
Juan Sebastian Chamorro (Nicaragua): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0qEYz6K634
Honduras Infectologist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08NX4dbRMvA
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/guatemalan-women-take-to-the-streets-283444
Robert Lopez, BPM Chairman: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1377200795816313
Monica Rodriguez, Salvadoran Journalist: https://www.magazinelatino.com/la-libertad-de-prensa-esta-en-riesgo-en-el-salvador-advierte-una-periodista/
Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/nicaraguan-lawyer-receives-alternative-nobel-prize-for-environmental-indigenous-rights-defense-281663
Honduran Caravan Clip from Diario El Heraldoon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CF4rN23JpYS/
Lottie Cunningham Wren Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBr2ugmGk8M
Protests in Costa Rica against IMF Protests: https://www.efe.com/efe/america/economia/sube-la-violencia-en-protestas-contra-el-posible-acuerdo-con-fmi-costa-rica/20000011-4359562
Audio Clip Sources:
*Correction: The audio clip concerning Rosario Murillo was mistakenly included as her statements given "foreign agents." The audio clip is about another law concerning "crimes of hate."
1) Ixchel's words on her mother, Anastasia's, detainment: https://www.facebook.com/Comunitaria.Prensa/videos/1509178609284998
2) President Nayib Bukele addresses El Faro media outlet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuUPlzX0gz8
- 3) Nicaragua Vice President Murillo on "foreign agent" designation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FoXGhQ4bEs
This episode's newsletter:https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/central-america-s-news-is-at-risk-279956
Audio Clip Sources:
Dawn Wooten: https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ice-whistleblower-speaks-out-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-performed-on-migrant-women-91843653911
Revista GatoEncerrrado interview with Melina Moisés: https://gatoencerrado.news/2020/09/11/denuncian-abuso-policial-contra-indigenas-que-protestan-por-construccion-en-parque-de-cuisnahuat/
Indigenous residents in Panama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxQX7WkrNg
This episode's newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/ownership-of-body-and-land-278065
Audio Clip Sources:
Border Patrol Dramatization: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-border-patrol-made-this-dramatized-video-showing-migrant-murdering-innocent-victim-in-a-dark-alley/2020/09/04/11ad3620-ee9c-11ea-a21a-0fbbe90cfd8c_story.html
Oscar Martinez from El Faro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvy8oRUjRQU
Panama Vaccine Global Study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6JxYF8T0B0
Escazú Agreement Honduras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohghk-WUmHg