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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 →
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 →
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 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 →
Alharaca, Enero 2022. In English in Lux and below. Aquí el audio de la penúltima respuesta. 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... Continue Reading →
Contracorriente, Univision Investigative Unit and the Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística (CLIP), November 2020. With Jennifer Ávila. The following is an English translation of the original article in Spanish; disponible en español. An environmental conflict marked by violence is raging in Guapinol, Honduras, where local inhabitants resist an iron oxide mine in a national park.... Continue Reading →
June 2020, available here. From the book, Faces of Assassination, published by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. On 20 December 2013, José Ángel Flores Menjivar wrote the list. The 63-year-old president of the Unified Campesino Movement of the Aguán (MUCA in Spanish), a farmworkers’ cooperative in the Bajo Aguán region of Honduras, put 29... Continue Reading →
June 2020, available here. From the book, Faces of Assassination, published by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. When he was a teenager, Miguel Ángel Rivera joined his older brother, Marcelo, to do community work in their home town of San Isidro in the department of Cabañas, El Salvador. In the early 1990s, they would... Continue Reading →
The Intercept, Diciembre 2019. In English here. Leia em português. Con Chiara Eisner. Ya pasaron más de tres años desde que Berta Cáceres fue asesinada en su casa en Honduras. Cáceres era una activista de 44 años, madre y una celebridad mundial —recibió el Premio Ambiental Goldman en el año 2015 por dirigir una campaña... Continue Reading →
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