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(Fotos familiares del autor de este texto. Puede hacer click en cada una para verlas en tamaño grande). Abstract: Many Colombians, motivated by different reasons, have migrated to the United States in recent years. In my family’s case, the decision to migrate led to a long separation, and an emotional […]

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 […]

Abstract: Centralamericans believe that the rural misery portrayed by the media in the seventies is gone. Most peasants have left the countryside and now live in the cities or in the US, they assume, but this is not true. Governments have neglected health coverage – which is supposedly free and […]

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 […]

Abstract: Most bolivian migrants in Sao Paulo working in sweatshops don’t know that there are binational agreements that make working legally in Brazil quite easy. However, this information is not out there where unemployed and desperate people contact the recruiters that prepare the transportation of workers all the way to […]