Entre el Amor y la Distancia
I’m a first -generation child of immigrants, dealing with the complexities of familial love and the effects the Latin American diaspora has had on this love…
Category: The Diaspora
Santos y Sombras/Saints and Shadows
I come from peoples in exile. I became an adult with an extreme sensitivity to the irreconcilable…
A Personal View from the Diaspora
In 1992 the Chapultepec Peace Accords ended El Salvador’s brutal 12-year civil war. The government granted amnesty to all parties, protecting war criminal…
The Migrant Architecture of El Salvador
In the summer of 2015 I traveled to the city of San Salvador to meet photographer Walterio Iraheta. After publishing my book on the remittance…
The Legacy of War
Miguel was six years old when he was forced to witness the execution of his first-grade teacher for participating in a teachers’ strike. “What I remember is that the…
Beating Stereotypes
About one out of every ten Hispanics in the Boston metropolitan area is Salvadoran, according to the 2010 American Community Survey. Yet little is…
