Central America

June 21, 2017
Óscar Martínez

In El Salvador, the legacies of violence persist and intensify.

February 1, 2017
Samantha Pineda and Alexis Stoumbelis

Twenty-five years after the signing of El Salvador’s Peace Agreement, the country’s right-wing forces seek to undermine core democratic institutions.

January 30, 2017

Without a reckoning of how past policies have shaped current migratory patterns, restriction efforts – Democratic and Republican – miss the point.

January 5, 2017
Hilary Goodfriend

El Salvador’s call-center industry is profiting off U.S. deportees.

November 7, 2016
Quintijn Kat

A year after U.S. Congress approved the “Alliance for Prosperity,” U.S. funding continues militarized, neoliberal policies that won’t stop violence in the Northern Triangle.

September 19, 2016
Laura Weiss

The U.S. and Mexican government’s prioritization of border security over human security has had dire consequences that must be discussed at the UN Summit for Refugees and Migration.

May 19, 2016
María Luisa Rosal & Arturo J. Viscarra

Twenty five years after its founding, School of the Americas Watch expands its work to the border.

January 7, 2016
Gabriela Díaz Prieto and Sarah Gammage

By issuing tourist and humanitarian visas to migrants, the Mexican government could begin to move past the failures of U.S.-backed border militarization.

January 4, 2016
Federico Barahona

A new refugee crisis takes shape in Mexico and Central America.

July 24, 2015
by Quintijn Kat

Replicating Plan Colombia's failed approach, a Washington aid program for Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador combines neoliberal economic reforms with military aid. 

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