El Salvador

December 20, 2018
María Inés Taracena

For Central Americans fleeing homophobic and transphobic violence, heading North is an act of resistance—from our winter 2018 issue, Women Rising in the Americas.

July 24, 2018
Miranda Cady Hallett and Lynnette Arnold

Understanding legal violence against Central American families

March 21, 2018
Hilary Goodfriend

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
Hilary Goodfriend

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.

January 18, 2018
Roberto Lovato

U.S. policies helped create gang culture in El Salvador, a country with no previous history of U.S.-style gangs and gang warfare.

October 20, 2017
Cristian Izquierdo

How the U.S. and Salvadoran politicians alike use Temporary Protected Status (TPS) as a political tool—and what can be done.

October 5, 2017
Sonja Wolf

The Trump administration’s depiction of Central American gang members conveniently overlooks the United States’ role in perpetuating gang violence at home and abroad. 

September 1, 2017
Hilary Goodfriend

Community members in the Salvadoran town of Tacuba responded to the state’s failure to provide clean water by creating their own well system. Now the mayor wants to claim ownership. 

July 13, 2017

What can the assassination of Sister Maura during El Salvador’s civil war teach us about humanity for Central American refugees today?

June 21, 2017
Óscar Martínez

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

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