Bulletin #1 Central American student movement: 21st century university student movements in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras

CLACSO Working Group on Student Movements and Activism
Bulletin: Student Movements and Activism
Year 1 – Issue #1 Central American student movement: 21st century university student movements in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras
September 2026

CONTENTS

Introduction to Bulletin #1
Natalia Agudelo Castañeda and Nicolás Dip

Introduction. Central America through its students (2016–2026)
Randall Chaves Zamora

The university captured: crisis and activism at the University of San Carlos of Guatemala
Andrés Gutiérrez

The University as a territory of dispute, memory and language in the face of Nayib Bukele's rise in El Salvador
Adriana del Carmen Ramírez Martínez

A new country awaits us: student mobilizations and organization during the 2018 Nicaraguan protests
Fatima Villalta

A memoir about an occupation: the student movement in Costa Rica (2018-2019)
Marianela Vásquez Cornejo

Activism, classroom, street: reflections on university activism at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), 2016-2019
Daniela Lizbeeth Nuñez Oyuela