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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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Lux Magazine, No. 1. En español en Alharaca. Art by Sofía Clausse. This reporting was supported by a grant from the Fund for Constitutional Government. Beginning in the summer of 2015, millions of women filled the streets of Latin America in a series of marches united by a hashtag at once a slogan and a... Continue Reading →
NACLA and Taylor & Francis Online, November 2020. With Pamela Ruiz. This is an excerpt; complete copies are available at either publisher. My reporting for this piece was thanks to a grant from The Fund for Constitutional Government. In April 2020, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele reacted to a wave of murders by ordering prison officials... Continue Reading →
Rest of World, June 2020. En español aquí. Luisana Aguilar Alvarado contributed reporting. It was early October 2019, and Quito was on fire. Smoke from Molotov cocktails and tear gas blanketed buildings, mixing with the flames of burning tires. Whole families marched in the melee. Men with T-shirts tied around their mouths threw rocks... Continue Reading →
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