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Lux Magazine, Issue 15. November 2025. A Spanish conquistador is on the run through a South American rainforest. He flees execution by his compatriots — but really, he flees his entire identity. The man’s name is Antonio, and he is the protagonist of Argentine writer Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s latest novel, We are Green and Trembling, in which... Continue Reading →
The New Yorker, April 2025. An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President—then the White House put him on a flight to El Salvador. By now, the images of Donald Trump’s March 15th flights to El Salvador are all too familiar: shackled Venezuelans being... Continue Reading →
The Dial, October 2024. ✺ On May 4, 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris stood on a podium at the Washington Conference on the Americas and took aim at the government of El Salvador, headed by President Nayib Bukele. Just three days before the conference, he — along with the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, controlled... Continue Reading →
Drilled and Contracorriente, October 2024. With Fernando Silva. Jennifer Ávila contributed reporting; photos by Fernando Destephen. Disponible en español. Honduran environmentalist Juan López had a priestly calm. His steady gaze and his way of speaking, polite but direct, were notable whether he was philosophizing with friends or leading a protest. Although he knew well the... Continue Reading →
Revista Pikara, septiembre 2024. Disponible en España. Retratos por Lizbeth Hernández. Extracto:
The Dial, May 2024. El Salvador faces the resurgence of mining activities as President Nayib Bukele’s administration considers overturning a ban on metal extraction. Environmental leaders who worry about the impact of mining on the country’s clean water sources, and who championed the ban until it passed in 2017, now confront potential threats as their... Continue Reading →
Gatopardo, mayo 2024. Vidalina Morales se dirige al público en la celebración del fallo del CIADI. Sensuntepeque, Cabañas, noviembre de 2016. Crédito: Danielle Mackey. El celular de Vidalina Morales sonó a mediados de la tarde. Era el 17 de mayo de 2023. Ella estaba en el estado rural de Cabañas, El Salvador. Escuchó la voz... Continue Reading →
The New Yorker, April 2024. On the afternoon of February 4th, as Salvadorans were voting in Presidential and legislative elections, a fifty-seven-year-old writer named Carlos Bucio Borja walked into a polling place near his home in the capital and began to read the constitution aloud. The sitting President, Nayib Bukele, was seeking a second consecutive mandate, which legal... Continue Reading →
The Dial, March 2024; The Guardian Long Read, April 2024; and The Guardian Podcast, May 2024. An extended version of this piece was published in Spanish in Gatopardo. On the afternoon of May 17, 2023, in the rural state of Cabañas, El Salvador, Vidalina Morales' cell phone rang. It was her 33-year old son, Manuel,... Continue Reading →
Febrero 2024. Queridos lectores, Este es un post un poco distinto. No es un artículo, sino una carta. Les quiero compartir algo que hemos construido con mis queridas colegas de Contracorriente: un portal de documentos y análisis de los juicios estadounidenses contra el narcoestado hondureño. Esté donde esté usted en este momento, a lo mejor... Continue Reading →
Danielle Mackey 