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Abstract: Salvadoran society is as politically weak as can be. Although a former guerrilla has won the national elections and held office without any incident, there is still no feedback between the State and its citizens. Is it a heritage of the several unresolved issues (of land distribution, of poverty, […]

Abstract: the amount of people murdered in El Salvador from 1992 until 2013 has long surpassed the number of civilians killed during the Civil War (1981-1992) and the political repression era (1975-1980). Even more so, both public indifference and our whole media consumption are designed to profit from violence: tabloid-like […]

Abstract: Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the western hemisphere. Their economic crisis is so severe that over 50,000 senior citizens are denied a pension that is rightfully theirs under the premise of austerity. Part of the strategy of Daniel Ortega’s government to remain in office is to provide […]

It was early evening on Maundy Thursday. I was in San José, Costa Rica, visiting a friend, and we and a small group of  her friends had just come back from a trip to the mountains. Since it was a holiday in a Catholic state, we had a really hard time […]

Abstract: Intipucá is a very small, dusty and hot town in rural El Salvador. However, it used to be one of the richest towns in the country. Said richness, however, depended not on its agricultural products (coffee, cotton, sugar cane), but solely on  the money sent by the locals who […]