Carlos S. Maldonado

The foundation nurtures aspiring young writers with tutors and mentors like Irene Vallejo, Sergio Ramírez, Juan Villoro and Javier Cercas

The Mexican author and screenwriter discusses his new novel ‘Extrañas’ and his passion for writing, which he developed as a child. ‘My life is dedicated to writing’

As a part of the memory recovery process, a group of trans women is denouncing the rapes the ‘white brigades’ and police officers committed between 1965 and 1990. ‘We lived through a horrible panic’

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross for Mexico and Central America warns about the disproportionate use of force against migrants. In a conversation with EL PAÍS, he lays out the measures that the authorities must take to avoid further tragedies

The technocrat president of El Salvador has transformed into an authoritarian despot with no regard for the rule of law and human rights

The president assures that the prisoners ‘will live for decades’ in the immense prison built as part of his controversial security strategy, where they will not be able to do ‘any more harm to the population’

The Nicaraguan justice system has also stripped journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, Bishop Silvio Báez, feminist Sofía Montenegro and human rights defender Vilma Núñez of their citizenship

The Nicaraguan leader said it was his wife and vice-president, Rosario Murillo, who contacted the US Embassy in Managua to request the transfer of 222 dissidents to Washington

The millionaire businessman and former army chief has presented himself as a strategist and conciliatory figure within the Sandinista regime, despite disagreements with his brother, President Daniel Ortega

Authorities have issued yellow and orange warnings with subzero temperatures, heavy rain, sleet and frost forecast in nothern and central areas

The country’s cultural authorities have determined that 38 objects, which are set to be auctioned on November 20 on the Dutch website Catawiki, are national ‘archaeological monuments’

Violence and misery forced them from their homes. Risking everything, they climbed aboard the infamous freight train that ferries the undocumented through Mexico to the US — a journey that cost them their limbs and their hopes. Now, with the help of prosthetics, they are working to rebuild their lives

President Daniel Ortega welcomes more Russian military personnel and equipment to be stationed throughout Nicaragua

Authorities initially thought the site was a crime scene, but anthropologists discovered that it is a ‘tzompantli,’ or altar, from over a millenia ago

Despite decades of institutional silence, a judge continues to fight to bring to trial those responsible for killing nearly 1,000 peasants in El Salvador in December 1981

Chile, Nicaragua and Honduras will elect presidents, Argentina goes to the ballots in a crucial legislative poll and Venezuela will hold a regional vote with the presence of opposition candidates

A young female pugilist’s terrible death has sparked doubts about whether she was fit to fight in Canada

Home to turtles, sharks and whales, the newly expanded Cordillera de Coiba zone has nine mountain ranges under the ocean’s surface, with some seamounts more than 3,000 meters tall

A huge sinkhole has caused a family to lose their home in Santa María Zacatepec. While the authorities and scientists investigate the phenomenon, the small village has become a tourist attraction

A decade on, a court has ordered her release, but because the public prosecution will appeal the ruling, she still remains behind bars

Head of religious group and four others held after burning a young woman thought to be possessed

Early results show overwhelming victory for former guerrilla and his wife in questioned election

Sandinista government’s increasingly tough line leaves thousands stranded in camps in Costa Rica

Managua accuses San Jose of violating international laws by allowing them to cross over Families are trying to reach the United States through Central America and Mexico

Critics say leader is violating Constitution by naming wife and children to posts

Farmers block roads to demonstrate against $50bn project to link Pacific with Caribbean

Police and military launch a witch hunt in the communities of the opposition