Author: Gustavo Peña Flores

“El Boyita”—little buoy—is only a couple of years away from coming of age, but his eyes have already seen four murders. They were perpetrated by mareros—gang members—years ago, at a hillside of the Bálsamo—Balm—Coast, near the slum of El Chumpe, in El Salvador.

Listen to the song Soldadito Marinero—little soldier sailor—by the Spanish Basque Country rock band Fito y los Fitipaldis. It says that he wanted to be a child, but the war caught him too soon. Something like this happened to Carmelo.

Samuel “Koko” Erazo is a Honduran artist who understands that his country’s electric sector is not an abstract thing for the citizens of his country, particularly the poor.