CENTRAL AMERICA IN MINUTES, Ep. 17: Honduran campesinos repeat calls for President Xiomara Castro to respect a 2022 agreement to end assassinations tied to palm oil monocrop in the Bajo Aguán. Castro has not installed a promised Truth Commission nor propelled a constitutionally mandated agrarian reform.
Nicaraguan police and military leaders swear in para-security forces implicated in crimes against humanity, despite the fact that Daniel Ortega has not yet signed into law the recently passed constitution creating a third armed security force.
The Inter-American Development Bank writes a one-billion-dollar check to El Salvador on the heels of an agreement with the IMF that peeled back Bukele’s signature 2021 Bitcoin Law. But regime officials insist that El Salvador is still “Bitcoin Country.”
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