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 →
How the Biden administration came to embrace authoritarianism in El Salvador
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 →
Las Defensoras
Revista Pikara, septiembre 2024. Disponible en España. Retratos por Lizbeth Hernández. Extracto:
Miss Universe in the shadow of a U.S. federal trial against MS-13
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 →
Bukele’s Bitcoin mess, enabled by development finance and a great-power competition
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 →
Reparando la red de la vida: entrevista con Evelyn Martínez Mejía sobre el feminismo decolonial en El Salvador
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 →