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The New Republic, Dec 2023. Several thousand people crowded near the entrance to the national gymnasium of El Salvador at dusk on November 15, waiting to take their seats for the preliminary round of the 2023 Miss Universe pageant. From within the throng, one group screamed the name of a country in unison, prompting rivals... Continue Reading →
Foreign Policy, November 2023. As part of the OCCRP project, "The Dictators' Bank." El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, speaks during a joint news conference with the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Ronald Johnson in San Salvador on May 26, 2020. YURI CORTEZ/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES One September morning three years ago, the U.S. Senate Committee on... Continue Reading →
Contracorriente, Junio 2023. Fotografías por Lizbeth Hernández. English translation coming soon. Cuando el 28 de abril de 2023, la Agencia Federal Estadounidense de Investigación (FBI) allanó la lujosa casa del empresario hondureño Lenir Pérez en el estado de Florida, algunas comunidades rurales hondureñas no se sorprendieron de que investigaran al empresario. Durante años, un grupo... Continue Reading →
Insider, December 2022, supported by the International Women's Media Foundation. Photos by Fred Ramos. 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 shrimp cooperative, and... 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, supported by the International Women's Media Foundation. 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... Continue Reading →
CLIP and Contracorriente, February 2022. With Jennifer Ávila and María Teresa Ronderos. El artículo original 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 Orlando Hernández... Continue Reading →
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