Justice, from Colombia to Central America
The Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2018. A brick wall, the first layer of the barrier, encircles most of a city block on an unassuming street in Guatemala City. … Continue reading
Deported into a Nightmare
The Atlantic, June 2018. Edwin Vásquez, a 16-year-old, is learning how to live with fear. One afternoon last fall, as he played soccer on a field near his house in … Continue reading
The Rise of the Net Center: Anti-corruption efforts in Guatemala vs. an army of trolls
The Intercept, April 2018. With Cora Currier. En Español aquí. At 6:02 A.M. on August 27, 2017, the president of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, uploaded a video statement to Twitter declaring the former Colombian … Continue reading
El Salvador’s “iron fist” crackdown on gangs: A lethal policy with US origins
World Politics Review, Feb 2018. Late one morning in the fall of 2016, police officers handcuffed a group of middle school-aged boys on a street in a neighborhood on the … Continue reading
The corruption beneath the 2017 Honduran election chaos
The Intercept, December 2017. On the night of December 2, 2017, a Honduran woman in the rural province of Olancho was protesting what she saw as a stolen election. The woman, … Continue reading
The cancellation of CAM, a refugee program for Central American children
The Intercept, November 2017. With Cora Currier. The State Department announced Wednesday evening the abrupt cancellation of a program that gave youth fleeing violence in Central America the chance to apply for … Continue reading
In El Salvador, controversy over increase in minimum wage
Equal Times, June 2017. En español, français. The municipality of Santo Tomas, El Salvador, absorbs the impacts of the maquila industry like a human body. Its daily routine ebbs and flows with the … Continue reading
