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Exportando nostalgia: productos salvadoreños en los Estados Unidos
Written by Jacinta Escudos
Abstract: The big amount of Salvadoran migrants living in the USA has become a business opportunity for small and medium enterprises, which have organized themselves to export certain products that migrants can identify with their origin and culture. These products, known by many as “ethnical products” or “nostalgic products” are […]
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Jacinta Escudos
Writer, columnist and blogger from El Salvador. With 8 published books and an op-ed column on the Sunday magazine of the country’s main newspaper, La Prensa Gráfica.
I'm interested in literature, culture, the rescue of historical memory and how these can be used to transform reality, construct a better society and improve individual lives.
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“Vivir bonito” en Nicaragua
Written by Jacinta Escudos
Abstract: The government of Nicaragua announced in January of this year a campaign that is being called, in short, “Vivir bonito” (“Living pretty”). The initial 14 point plan doesn’t specify the concrete measures that this campaign will execute, although the goal expressed is the desire of the government for Nicaraguans […]
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Los retos del desempleo en Centroamérica
Written by Jacinta Escudos
Abstract: the causes of unemployment in Central America are in part related to low education and high levels of poverty. These factors form vicious cycles that are hard to break: if someone is poor, they are forced to leave school and start working from a very young age, reducing the […]
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La construcción de la paz
Written by Jacinta Escudos
Abstract: The periods of transition after wars can be terrible, altough they already fall into the category of “peace”. A good example of this are the years after the end of World War II were an estimated 2.5 millions Germans perished under different circumstances after the allied forces entered Germany. […]
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Esperando con temor la lluvia en Haití
Written by Jacinta Escudos
Abstract: The rainy season in Haiti will begin in April and it can mean an intensification of the cholera epidemic which has already claimed 7,000 deaths among 520,000 cases. A vaccination program is waiting to be implemented but it’s being delayed due to bureaucratic problems. The epidemic doesn’t seem to […]
