Gospel Crusade, Inc. and Friends

With help from US churches, the evangelical right has won a foothold in Central America.

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Illustrations by The Diggers

In March, Vice President Mike Pence had a friendly meeting with far-right Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández. It wasn’t just a sign of right-wing advance in a growing number of countries, but also another chapter in an often-obscured history of evangelical Christian influence in Latin American politics. Last year, Hernández had gathered Honduras’s leading televangelists […]

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