Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump administration and from their own voters, who point to the results from El Salvador president’s war on gangs. The hunger for a more...
On the night of Saturday, January 10, at least 20 homes in the “Ciudad Marsella Phase Two” development flooded. This caused irreparable damage to appliances, furniture, and vehicles. For several of the affected families, the losses amounted to absolutely...
The Environmental Impact Study for the Ciudad Marsella construction project warned that the development’s northwest zone, located between Quartiers (districts) 10 and 11, presented a moderate-to-high environmental threat due to the probability of flooding....
There are moments in a nation’s history that illuminate what seemed condemned to silence. They do not arrive by decree of those in power, but through the unyielding force of those who never ceased seeking justice. That those responsible for the El Mozote...
Owing to their obsolescence and scant depth, these usurpers prove doubly finite. Spanish dictionaries define a usurper as one who seizes—typically through violence—a right or property that legitimately belongs to another. This definition aptly identifies those who...
Beyond the dismantling of the gangs—a development with significant caveats that I personally regard as a “cruel achievement”—the Salvadoran reality is best defined as a “multidimensional crisis.” This crisis is marked by the deepening and worsening of myriad economic,...
