Podcast: Bukele Gets Pat on the Back from Trump White House
<p>With Trump in the headlines, Nayib Bukele rewrites the Salvadoran constitution and Guatemalan courts resume their probe of Bernardo Arévalo. Honduras and Colombia try to rally a regional front against Trump’s deportations. Salvadoran prisons chronically lack sanitary and medical supplies for menstruation.</p>
Roman Gressier
CENTRAL AMERICA IN MINUTES, Ep. 15: With Trump and regional migration carrying the headlines and Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveling in Central America, Nayib Bukele rewrites the constitution in El Salvador and the Guatemalan Supreme Court resumes an internationally condemned probe of Bernardo Arévalo.
Honduras and Colombia try to rally Latin American and Caribbean nations against Trump’s deportation agenda, but fail to hold an emergency session at CELAC this week as Central American neighbors El Salvador and Guatemala collaborate on migration with the Trump administration.
A journalistic investigation by Focos found that Salvadoran prisons under the state of exception chronically lack sanitary pads for menstruation, tampons, menstrual cups, potable water, clean linens, and medicine for recurring vaginal infections.
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