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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 →
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 →
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. 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 →
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