Photojournalists in a Cauldron of Violence
His voice cracked and he fidgeted as he recounted the incident. He had raced out of his newspaper office to make photographs of yet another cadaver in the street. That’s part of his job…
Category: The Past in the Present
A Nation at War with Itself
In January 1981 the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador headed by Robert White sent an urgent cable to the Department of State in Washington. The memo, labeled SECRET, alleged that the death…
Transitional Justice in El Salvador
On a warm morning in January 2016, in a small town far from the capital in El Salvador’s northern Morazan province, just off the shady central square, an extraordinary hearing is unfolding in a…
A Search for Justice in El Salvador
In the small rural town of Arcatao, Chalatenango, Rosa Rivera clung to the hope that one day she would find the remains of her disappeared mother and father and lay them to rest in peace…
Salvadoran Refugees in the Camp at Colomoncagua, Honduras, 1980-1991
In 1980 and 1981, more than 35,000 refugees fled from Salvadoran military actions into Honduras. In the mountainous northern part of Morazán department…
The Convulsions of War
The impact of the 1980-1992 war in El Salvador is as profound as the Civil War’s impact on the United States…
