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…
Read MoreIn 1980 and 1981, more than 35,000 refugees fled from Salvadoran military actions into Honduras. In the mountainous northern part of Morazán department…
Read MoreJames Iffland is a professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Boston University. He is currently at work on a book on Roque Dalton. He was the 2005-2006 Central American Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS…
Read MoreMy parents tell me how lucky I was to be born in a hospital. It was late November of 1989 amidst the “final offensive”—one of the last but more gruesome clashes…
Read MoreIn 1992 the Chapultepec Peace Accords ended El Salvador’s brutal 12-year civil war. The government granted amnesty to all parties, protecting war criminal…
Read MoreOn March 9, 2014, Crack Rodríguez walked into a ballot station, penned his vote on a voting card, tore it in half, deposited one half into the ballot box and then…
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