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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.

Thank you all so much for supporting our podcast and  our newsletter team. We have been brainstorming how to evolve the podcast and begin creating our own content connected to current events in the region and so we apologize for the pause on our weekly episodes. It has been a little tricky as we want to make sure we are intentional with the direction the podcast will take. At the same time we have been looking to recruit another member to our team to join us in a creative thought process and balance the workload in what we anticipate may be a bi-monthly project. That said, we have to thank you all once more and a special shoutout to the newsletter team for continuously delivering the weekly newsletter. So please make sure to subscribe and make Central American News a reliable sender in your inbox setting so you don't miss out on weekly updates. 

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-710571Audio Sources: Noticias Repretel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_-TQHWbTOg

Episode NewsletterAudio 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-695291Audio Sources:La Prensa Gráfica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c_8jH9_vuAPodcast 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 NewsletterAudio Clip Sources: Tony Herrera of Belize's UDPAlex Garcia, Guatemalan DemonstratorClip 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-55-673989Guatevision - 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%20newsletterChannel 5 Belize News - 11th Amendment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiwMXR2-xD8Podcast Co-hosts: Cecilia Rivas and José Luis Martínez

Episode Newsletter - Diasporas Matter Audio Sources: Nelton Rivera - GuatemalaEduardo Ortega - PanamaPodcast Co-hosts: José Luis Martinez and Cecilia Rivas

Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/18-politicians-feminists-and-former-guerrilleros-arrested-654171Audio clips:Michel Chebat, Belize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggQ95dWgh1w

Speakers:Dr. Campbell Harvey from Duke UniversityNelson Rauda from El FaroRicardo Castaneda from the Central American Institute for Fiscal StudiesPodcast Host:José Luis Martínez

Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/tools-to-silence-646337Audio 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%20newsletterPodcast 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-638739Audio Clips:Reuters Clip  - Kamala Harris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5dxMmfM2_4KXAN 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%20newsletterPodca

Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/nicaragua-s-first-black-presidential-candidate-629982Audio Clips: Froyla Tzalam clip from Love FMUN Spokesperson, Marta Hurtado clip from 4tomonoPodcast 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-617571Audio Byte of Public Service Minister Henry Charles Usher speaking to Channel 5 Belize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4h_f5o-hq0Audio Byte of Carlos Chamorro from Confidencial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_CMWVVYpuM&t=168sPodcast Co-hosts: Cecilia Rivas and José Luis Martínez

Episode NewsletterAudio Quotes:Quote from Ministry of Tourism, Morena Valdez, to Orbita TVNicaragua Curator Rodrigo Peñalba's on Nicaragua's elections

Episode NewsletterAudio Clips:Channel 5 Belize - Joint Unions in Belize show Strenght in NumbersPrensa Comunitaria - Resident of the Tzibanay village speaks on lack of government aid after hurricane aftermath

Episode NewsletterDW Español audio clip of protester talking about El Salvador's situation involving the removal of magistrates

Episode NewsletterAudio Sources:President Bukele on Escazú AgreementViolations the days preceding and following the third anniversary of the Abril 2018 rebellion

Episode NewsletterAudio Clips:BuzzFeed's Craig Silverman on Facebook's Failures to Stop Misinformation | Amanpour and CompanyAttorney making case against Arquesio Arias

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 NewsletterAudio Clips:Channel 5 Belize News on Unaccompanied Belizean ChildGerardo Torres Zelaya to Al Jazeera on Tony Hernandez 

Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/gentrification-of-guatemala-462134Audio Clips:Raúl Melara on "Ghost Workers" in Legislative AssemblyEFE Report on Geovanny Fuentes Ramírez who was convicted for cocaine trafficking

Episode Newsletter from Central American NewsAudio Clip: Protester Carla Nelson on the Senniaf Case from DW

Episode Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/8m2021-in-central-america-424123Audio 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-401423Audio Clips:Panamá Grey Listhttps://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-2021-382368Audio Clips:Pailazo Nacional in Panamá - Panamá Américahttps://www.panamaamerica.com.pa/sociedad/pailazo-nacional-contra-supuestos-abusos-maltratos-menores-en-albergues-1181905Norma Martínez, Mother of Keyla Martínez from Honduras - El Heraldohttps://www.elheraldo.hn/sucesos/1443636-466/keyla-martinez-homicidio-honduras-policias-hijos-adoptivosMayor of Libera - Space Agency in Costa Rica - Noticias Repretelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGi7qDGowII

Episode Newletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/we-just-want-to-play-359823Audio Clips: Carlos Chamorro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY8jswBYtlM&t=96sTranslation: “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%2FTranslation: “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-318879Audio Clips SourcesEconomist Roger Arteaga speaks to Confidencial about customer protection lawhttps://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%20newsletterTranslation: 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 Volcanohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oo4TQ3_XDsTranslation: 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-310863Audio Clip Sources:Leslie Mendez on Supreme Court ruling in Belize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cthrPhWPH24Erick 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%20newsletterTranslation: “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-309046Audio Clip Sources:Gwinnett's new sheriff gets rid of county's controversial 287(g) program, 11ALIVEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjAgVJAwtD0&t=204sMichael Healy, president of the leading business chamber in the nation, Superior Council for Private Enterprise, Confidencialhttps://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-307047Audio Clip Sources:Nicaragua purchas of vaccines, Confidencialhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ5P6kvtRiIMigrant caravan from Honduras, Univisionhttps://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-301033Audio 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%20newsletterABC 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-299357Audio clips: Caravan Migrant on France 24: https://www.france24.com/es/am%C3%A9rica-latina/20201210-caravana-migrantes-eeuu-hondurasTranslation: “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/50000261-4417443Translation: “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-297517Audio Clips: Mark Morgan: https://www.yahoo.com/now/federal-judge-orders-restoration-daca-125041449.htmlProtests in Guatemala: https://twitter.com/PrensaComunitar/status/1335313068193157128?s=20Mauricio Arriaza Chicas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmOLxLPQIQsTranslation: "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-295738Audio 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/1332776966672572419Translation: “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-293982Audio 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-292280Audio 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&_rdrAbelino 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-290447Milena Mayorga quote: https://twitter.com/milenamayorga/status/1325788440345108487?s=21Translation:" 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-288688Anastasia Mejia interview with Prensa Comunitaria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UqYSZ-b31QCommunity 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-286961Luis Almagro's words on OAS deadline for Nicaragua: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhAOGg6KNiEGuatemalan 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-285139Juan 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-283444Robert 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-281663Honduran Caravan Clip from Diario El Heraldoon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CF4rN23JpYS/Lottie Cunningham Wren Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBr2ugmGk8MProtests 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/15091786092849982) 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=3FoXGhQ4bEsThis 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-91843653911Revista 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.htmlOscar Martinez from El Faro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvy8oRUjRQUPanama Vaccine Global Study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6JxYF8T0B0Escazú Agreement Honduras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohghk-WUmHg