The warning came in August 2020. I was instructed to meet him at six o’clock at night in a deserted parking lot in San Salvador by a reliable source. He had my number but didn’t want to leave a trail, so he reached me through a friend instead. He instructed me to leave my phone in the car when I got there, stated Nelson Rauda Zablah, a Salvadoran journalist whose work has been featured in the New York Times, the BBC, the Los Angeles Times, and the Economist among other publications.
Moreover, he informed me as we walked that the negotiations between the president of El Salvador and the renowned MS-13 gang were the reason my colleagues at the Salvadoran news outlet El Faro were being watched.
Although this may seem like a terrifying movie scene, several journalists from Central America have actually experienced it. Many people in my profession go about their daily lives with the sense that they are being watched, putting their phones away before meetings, utilizing encrypted messaging and email apps, communicating in code, and never sharing their real-time location.
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