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Insider, December 2022. Photos by Fred Ramos. This reporting was supported by the International Women's Media Foundation. SISIGUAYO, EL SALVADOR — On the morning that Walber Rodriguez was arrested last May, he was just two minutes from his home in Sisiguayo, El Salvador. Walber and his wife Estefany had worked the overnight shift at the... Continue Reading →
The New Yorker, December 2022. For Mónica Taboada-Tapia, making a documentary about the struggles of a transgender woman living in a small, remote community became a source of unexpected connection. // While scanning social media one day, the Colombian filmmaker Mónica Taboada-Tapia happened upon a video interview of a woman named Georgina. “I listened to... Continue Reading →
Contracorriente, Diciembre 2022. Con Célia Pousset. A casi un año de la derogación de la Ley Orgánica de las Zonas de Empleo y Desarrollo Económico, Honduras está todavía lejos de ser libre de las ZEDE. Tres empresas operan aún bajo este régimen especial en el territorio nacional; una de ellas, Próspera en Roatán, ha advertido... Continue Reading →
Contracorriente, Octubre 2022. Con Jennifer Ávila, apoyado por el Fund for Investigative Journalism. En la entrada a la Unidad Metropolitana de Policía (UMEP) 19, ubicada en Trujillo, la ciudad que alguna vez fue el paraíso del cartel de narcotráfico «Los Cachiros», hay un vehículo con más de un centenar de orificios de bala de grueso... Continue Reading →
The New Yorker, September 2022. Film by Daniel Poler. About a decade ago, the filmmaker Daniel Poler was living in his native Venezuela and contemplating what it would mean to leave. He was a twenty-year-old film student, and his homeland was bearing toward misery. Poler chose to emigrate. His decision remains an open wound. “It... Continue Reading →
The Nation, September 2022. In the early morning darkness of May 24, 2022, hundreds of people were camped on a street bordering a prison in San Luis Mariona, El Salvador. The encampment had been there for days, its inhabitants hoping for information about loved ones they suspected the state was holding on the other side... Continue Reading →
CLIP and Contracorriente, February 2022. With Jennifer Ávila and María Teresa Ronderos. El artículo original en español se encuentra después de la traducción al inglés. Ilustración: Candy Carvajal. The following is a translation of the original Spanish. Two non-profits, two diplomats, and the circle around the former Honduran president. As detained former Honduran President Juan... Continue Reading →
Lux and Alharaca, January 2022. In English below. Here is audio of the penultimate response. La economista y filósofa Evelyn Martínez Mejía considera que los feminismos decoloniales son claves para entender las crisis actuales y recuperar los lazos comunales dialogando con el pasado. En conversación con su amiga, la periodista Danielle Mackey, examina la realidad... Continue Reading →
The New Yorker, May 2021. Film by Erin Semine Kökdil. The opening scene of the film “Desde Que Llegaste, Mi Corazón Dejó de Pertenecerme” (“Since You Arrived, My Heart Stopped Belonging to Me”) is shot through the windshield of a bus barrelling through fog, wipers swiping to no avail. We cannot discern what doom—or what... Continue Reading →
The New Yorker, April 2021. Film by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Maite Zubiaurre. On a recent Thursday afternoon, Marisela and Ely Ortiz, a middle-aged couple, went to a Costco in Temecula, California, to buy crates of bread and bottled water, a weekend’s worth of nourishment for twenty-five volunteers who would spend two days walking in extreme... Continue Reading →
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