Beyond the Political Pendulum
In 1994, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa asked David Escobar Galindo what he thought was the most transcendental change in El Salvador between the elections held before the peace…
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Country: El Salvador
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…
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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…
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Santos y Sombras/Saints and Shadows
I come from peoples in exile. I became an adult with an extreme sensitivity to the irreconcilable…
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San Romero de América
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—María Isabel Delario is crying. Her body is bent, her face buried in her arms, her hands rest on the metal cast depicting the face of a murdered archbishop, a man…
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