Anna-Cat Brigida

Tear gas, arbitrary detentions and short-term humanitarian programmes have been the government reaction to protests.

Analysts worry corruption will exacerbate the crisis facing Honduras’s already strained healthcare system.

Leaders and experts worry the countries are doubly vulnerable because of weak, resource-stripped healthcare systems.

Rights groups and families of victims call the newly approved measure an ‘amnesty law in disguise’.

Backed by military officers, President Bukele briefly occupied legislature to demand vote on loan for security forces.

Families fight for justice nearly four decades after El Salvador soldiers shot dead more than 200 in August 1982.

Salvadorans who survived Latin America’s most brutal massacre of the 20th century still await promised reparations.

Seventeen military officers are accused of carrying out 1981 massacre of nearly 1,000 women, men and children.

Honduran women accused of having abortions – even if not convicted – face years of stigmatisation.

Evelyn Hernandez, who was previously given 30 years for suspected abortion, found not guilty of homicide in retrial.