A transnational adoptee born in El Salvador and raised in the United States shared his journey to uncovering his family's truth and finding his voice as a desaparecido.
Yaneth Martínez, Ana Julia Escalante, Jaime López, Pablo Benítez y Jorge E. Cuéllar
La detención arbitraria en el contexto de una mano dura severa en El Salvador evoca la memoria dolorosa de la desaparición forzada. Defensores de derechos humanos y activistas conectan los puntos del pasado y el presente.
For transnational adoptees wrenched from El Salvador and Guatemala in the throes of civil war, storytelling and art are powerful tools for navigating identity, dislocation, haunting, and healing.
Aprovechando los resultados de su “guerra contra las pandillas”, el presidente de El Salvador desafió la constitución y logró le reelección. A lo largo de la región, su modelo represivo inspira a ultraderechistas.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has been reelected in a landslide. Supporters praise his security gains despite widespread human rights abuses, and leaders across the region are looking to emulate his model.
Broadcasting the Salvadoran government's atrocities throughout the armed conflict, the guerrilla radio station Venceremos had a clear goal: bringing down the U.S.-backed dictatorship.
In the 1980s, the Reagan administration poured billions of dollars into El Salvador's military to crush the left-wing FMLN, littering the country in mass graves in the process.
El gobierno Salvadoreño recientemente se desligó del programa de inmersión lingüística Cuna Nahuat, continuando así la larga historia de supresión y invisibilización de los pueblos originarios de El Salvador.
The recent dismantling of the Cuna Nahuat Indigenous language program in El Salvador is the latest in a long history of erasure for Salvadoran Indigenous communities.
