Articles by: Hilary Goodfriend

February 24, 2023

Irina Carlota Silber’s second book is a meditation on ethnography, politics, and El Salvador’s post-insurgent generation.

December 23, 2022

Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo and Laurel Marshal Potter’s new book provides a moving portrait of the liberatory praxis of El Salvador’s popular church, but its engagement with decolonial theory falls short.

February 19, 2021

On the eve of legislative and municipal elections in El Salvador, one of the worst acts of political violence since the signing of the Peace Accords in 1992 shook the country.

November 24, 2020

David Morales, abogado y defensor de derechos humanos en El Salvador, habla la necesidad de solidaridad y resistencia frente a un gobierno autoritario.

June 2, 2020

Honduran activist Berta Cáceres was murdered in 2016 during a fight against a hydroelectric megaproject. In the corrupt narcostate of post-coup Honduras, the killing was the grand finale of a campaign of terror.

March 25, 2020

Una reseña del libro Después de la insurgencia: revolución y política electoral en El Salvador, de Ralph Sprenkels.

February 19, 2020

As President Nayib Bukele challenges the key tenets of the peace accords in El Salvador, the stakes for the country’s nascent postwar democracy have never been higher.

May 2, 2019

If we want to fight capitalism, the US left has to figure out how to confront US empire. Generations of internationalist struggles in Latin America can help us do just that.

February 14, 2019

With its loss of the presidency in El Salvador’s recent elections, the gains of the revolutionary project launched by the FMLN in 1980 are in serious jeopardy.

September 13, 2018

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre, another student uprising at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) takes shape.

March 21, 2018

In the wake of an electoral rout and growing internal divisions, El Salvador’s Left is facing its starkest crisis in decades.

March 2, 2018

An onslaught of conservative rulings by the Supreme Court in El Salvador threatens the 2018 mid-term elections—and the very fabric of the nation’s post-conflict institutions.

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