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Nelson Rauda

San Salvador
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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

The Guardian — NSO executives shouldn’t be able to wash their hands as their tools are used to persecute journalists. In a very real sense, NSO set the hounds on us. And now we’re fighting back.
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Opinion | El Salvador's Bitcoin Paradise Is a Mirage

Opinion | El Salvador's Bitcoin Paradise Is a Mirage

The New York Times — Mr. Rauda Zablah is a Salvadoran journalist who reports on politics and human rights violations for El Faro. SAN SALVADOR - Bitcoiners - enthusiasts of the world's most popular cryptocurrency - aren't supposed to trust government. After all, one of Bitcoin's premises is to separate money from the state.
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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

Los Angeles Times — After a dramatic spike in killings here over a single weekend last month, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's reaction was swift - and extreme. He sent soldiers into poor neighborhoods to round up thousands of people who he claimed were gang members, then paraded them in front of news cameras in their underwear and handcuffs.
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The Battle over Memory at El Mozote | Nelson Rauda

The Battle over Memory at El Mozote | Nelson Rauda

The Baffler — The people in El Mozote have been crushed for four decades, and El Salvador is yet to weave something with all that has come out.
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The High Price of Doing Journalism in El Salvador

The High Price of Doing Journalism in El Salvador

ProPublica — A reporter teams up with the American journalist who first broke the story of the El Mozote massacre, tracking El Salvador's faltering efforts to hold the perpetrators accountable, in a new documentary from Retro Report and FRONTLINE. On Dec. 10, 1981, an American-trained unit of the Salvadoran army stormed into a remote village near the country's border with Honduras.
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Massacre in El Salvador

Massacre in El Salvador

PBS FRONTLINE — FRONTLINE, Retro Report and ProPublica examine the ongoing fight for justice for the horrific 1981 attack on the village of El Mozote and surrounding areas.
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Using bitcoin as legal tender

Using bitcoin as legal tender

The Economist — W HEN ASKED if anyone has tried to use bitcoin to pay her, a woman selling coffee and pastries in San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador, replies "thank God, no", and rebuffs an attempt to do so. A man selling soup for lunch brushes off the idea with laughter.
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Perspective | The U.S. role in the El Mozote massacre echoes in today's immigration

Perspective | The U.S. role in the El Mozote massacre echoes in today's immigration

Post Outlook (The Washington Post) — Forty years ago, one of the most widely known mass killings in recent Latin American history occurred in and around the village of El Mozote in El Salvador. A U.S.-backed Salvadoran army unit attacked civilians, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,000 people, 500 of them children.
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The Virus of Time Claims Another Victim of El Mozote

The Virus of Time Claims Another Victim of El Mozote

El Faro (El Salvador) — Minutes before leaving her house, Rosario López still didn't know how she was going to get to the cemetery where her husband was to be buried. She had hoped to ride in the hearse, as a widow would normally do, but the driver wouldn't allow it.
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Preparing for Coronavirus, but with Hardly a Drop of Water

Preparing for Coronavirus, but with Hardly a Drop of Water

El Faro (El Salvador) — In the hospital where she works, the nurse follows all official health guidelines to prevent the coronavirus: she washes her hands frequently, rubs her hands with gel sanitizer, and sports a mask. She stays faithful to the routine until she gets home, but only that far.
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Los 'países seguros' más violentos del mundo

Los 'países seguros' más violentos del mundo

El País — La idea de que Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala son países seguros y aptos para recibir refugiados sería un mal chiste, si no fuera porque es exactamente lo que ha logrado la Administración de Donald Trump. Para conseguirlo, el Gobierno estadounidense hizo que los países firmaran "acuerdos cooperativos de asilo", conocidos como acuerdos de tercer país seguro.
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El Salvador's Pivotal Election

El Salvador's Pivotal Election

The Nation — " Why do Salvadorans migrate?" Nayib Bukele, the front-runner in the upcoming Salvadoran presidential elections recently asked. "They migrate because of lack of hope. We see it in the caravans. It's hope that moves the Salvadorans." Both hopeful and despairing Salvadorans head to the polls on February 3, and a political shakeup of the small Central American country is expected.
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Central American immigrants worry after Trump signals end to program protecting them from deporta...

Central American immigrants worry after Trump signals end to program protecting them from deporta...

Los Angeles Times — After 25 years of cleaning hospitals, hotels and houses that belonged to others, Iris Acosta was on the verge of realizing her dream of owning a home. Then her real estate agent discovered something that made the 51-year-old Honduran's life seem suddenly more uncertain: She had temporary protected status as an immigrant.
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Como um gol no time errado pode custar a vida em El Salvador, país mais violento do mundo - BBC N...

Como um gol no time errado pode custar a vida em El Salvador, país mais violento do mundo - BBC N...

BBC — Nelson Rauda Zablah Especial para a BBC Mundo, em El Salvador Em El Salvador você pode ser morto por cuidar da filha do presidente, como ocorreu com Misael Navas. Ou por ser professora em uma região disputada por gangues, caso de Sandra Rivera. Ou simplesmente por marcar um gol contra uma equipe de criminosos.
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Las muertes invisibles de las mujeres y los hombres trans

Las muertes invisibles de las mujeres y los hombres trans

El Faro (El Salvador) — El 10 de junio de 2009 por la tarde, Mónica Hernández llegó a las oficinas del Instituto de Medicina Legal en Ciudad Merliot, Santa Tecla, a preguntar por el cadáver de una mujer trans que, se rumoraba, había sido asesinada en la finca El Espino.
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