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SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR – Small signs of support for gender equality are popping up here in Central America. Women’s rights are more than pressing here in El Salvador, the nation with the highest rate of femicide in the world. Yet changes are evident and increasingly popular. The current left-leaning […]

There’s a common saying here in tiny El Salvador that roughly translates as, “Two thirds of Salvadorans live in El Salvador. The rest live abroad.” Two American cities, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., have as many Salvadoran residents as San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador. These millions who […]

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: War and postwar are also causes to take into account when talking about depredation of natural resources. Military strategies provoke massive deforestation on purpose, to achieve advantage over an enemy. But after wars are ended, situations don’t automatically improve in the affected countries. In El Salvador, after the war […]

Abstract: The discussion about the contrast between development and sustainability seems dense and abstract. In El Salvador, however, there is a clear example of the need to seek a balance between both: the controversy over the attempt to pass a Water Act. The project entered the Legislative Assembly on March […]