El Salvador publication relocates to Costa Rica to avoid Bukele’s crackdown
by Luke Taylor from on (#6AYFZ)
El Faro moves its headquarters to avoid fabricated accusations' after 25 years reporting on drug wars, crime and corruption
El Faro has survived many pressures in its 25 years reporting on El Salvador's bloody drug wars, crime and institutional corruption.
We've been harassed. We've received death threats from drug cartels, requiring us to contract armed security guards. And we've had the police coming to our houses after we revealed their corruption scandals," said Oscar Martinez, editor of the online investigative outlet. Some of our journalists have been exiled, but we have managed to continue reporting from San Salvador."
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