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Nelson Rauda’s Biography

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Nelson Rauda Zablah (El Salvador, 1991). I'm a journalist since 2013. I started my career working for La Prensa Grafica, one of the two biggest print outlets in El Salvador. I worked in the judiciary department, a busy section to report in what at the time was one of the most violent countries in the world, covering gang violence, the justice system, impunity and the police forces. In 2015, I transfered to El Faro, Central America’s first online-only newsmagazine. In 2016, I was a part of the E…

Nelson Rauda’s Journalist Portfolio

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Pegasus spyware was used to hack reporters' phones. I'm suing its creators | Nelson Rauda Zablah

Pegasus spyware was used to hack reporters' phones. I'm suing its creators | Nelson Rauda Zablah

NSO executives shouldn’t be able to wash their hands as their tools are used to persecute journalists. In a v…

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Opinion | El Salvador's Bitcoin Paradise Is a Mirage

Opinion | El Salvador's Bitcoin Paradise Is a Mirage

Mr. Rauda Zablah is a Salvadoran journalist who reports on politics and human rights violations for El Faro. …

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In response to killings, El Salvador's bitcoin president attacks civil liberties

In response to killings, El Salvador's bitcoin president attacks civil liberties

After a dramatic spike in killings here over a single weekend last month, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's…

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The Battle over Memory at El Mozote | Nelson Rauda

The Battle over Memory at El Mozote | Nelson Rauda

The people in El Mozote have been crushed for four decades, and El Salvador is yet to weave something with al…

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The High Price of Doing Journalism in El Salvador

The High Price of Doing Journalism in El Salvador

A reporter teams up with the American journalist who first broke the story of the El Mozote massacre, trackin…

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Massacre in El Salvador

Massacre in El Salvador

FRONTLINE, Retro Report and ProPublica examine the ongoing fight for justice for the horrific 1981 attack on …

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Articles

El juicio de El Mozote pasa a la última etapa

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By Andrés Dimas, Nelson Rauda
| El Faro (El Salvador) Verified
Impune por cuarenta y cuatro años, la masacre de El Mozote, el operativo con mayor número de víctimas de toda la guerra salvadoreña (1980-1992), pasó a la última etapa del proceso penal. El juzgado de Instrucción de San Francisco Gotera notificó que el caso entró a la fase plenaria, como se conocía anteriormente a la vista pública.
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¿A quién miente Bukele sobre bitcoin en El Salvador?

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By Nelson Rauda, Gabriel Labrador, Graciela Barrera
| El Faro (El Salvador) Verified
El gobierno de El Salvador anuncia públicamente compras de bitcoin, a pesar de que el acuerdo firmado con el FMI lo prohíbe. Esto genera una contradicción entre la versión oficial, que afirma que el proyecto de bitcoin avanza, y la versión presentada ante el FMI, donde Hacienda y el BCR aseguran que no se han realizado nuevas compras.
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From the Bowels of Bukele’s Prisons: Survivors Recount Death, Torture, and Starvation

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By Carlos R. Martinez, Carlos Barrera, Oscar Martinez, Óscar Martínez Verified, Nelson Rauda
| Central America in Minutes
Below is a transcript of this El Faro video special, coupled with a newly curated selection of photos by Carlos Barrera, many of which were included in his 2025 World Press Photo-winning portfolio, Life and Death in a Country without Constitutional Rights. The voices of sources interviewed are sometimes identified by only an initial or one name.
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Chai latte for the mornings, and cold beer (just not an IPA) for some evenings.