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Published in: democraciaAbiertaAn endless cycle of carnage in El Salvador
In recent years, El Salvador’s street gangs have begun to exert influence in the country’s security sector and local...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCounter-gang strategies in Central America: mass imprisonment and crackdown is not working
There are many underlying causes of why people join gangs. The lesson of past policies is that mano dura strategies...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaEl Salvador: from dialogue to death
Since January 2015, the war opposing criminal gangs and the State has resulted in 15.000 dead. Attempts at truce...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThirty-six years later, the trial of the El Mozote massacres could change El Salvador's history
The reopening of El Mozote case brings a historic opportunity for truth and justice; the State and the public...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaObama keeps on deporting Central American teens. What will Trump do?
“I am glad the cards are now on the table and there is not a hidden agenda. Because then we can fight accordingly.” Español
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaAmnesty law nullified in El Salvador: knowing the truth and taking the victims into account
The Constitutional Chamber of El Salvador surprised everyone by declaring unconstitutional the Amnesty Law that...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaDoor to justice finally opens in El Salvador
As the door finally opens for war criminals to face justice in El Salvador, the law can start serving the country's...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe fight continues to free detained Central American high schoolers in the US
Despite several protests, US authorities have not yet backed down from arresting immigrant high school students on...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaLove in the time of Zika
As the Zika virus ravaging Latin America moves northward, in El Salvador, the debate focuses on the struggle for...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaLatino high schoolers could be deported to "certain death"
Several North Carolina Latino high schoolers have been arrested and are expected to be deported, despite strong...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaSan Salvador, not Caracas, was the world´s most murderous city in 2015
With almost 200 murders by 100.000 inhabitants, probably San Salvador´s murder rate exceeds the violent death rate...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe re-emergence of social cleansing in El Salvador
In the most violent country in the world, youth is killing youth, the state is in a state of war and extrajudicial...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCrime, violence and political gridlock in El Salvador. Business as usual
The future of El Salvador depends on its capacity to address the structural causes of violence, to repair the broken...
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Published in: TransformationThe true miracle of Óscar Romero
The memory of martyrs is exalted, but to what purpose?
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Published in: openSecurityEl Salvador’s gang truce: a lost opportunity?
The truce declared in 2012 may have been imperfect and controversial but positive lessons must be learned amid the...
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Published in: HomeThe corporate nullification of the human right to water: the case of El Salvador
Multinational corporations are increasing their control over valuable fresh water supplies, particularly in Latin...
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Published in: 50.50The Handmaid's Tale of El Salvador
Poverty, misogyny, and Christian fundamentalism in El Salvador lie behind the prison sentences of up to forty years...
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Published in: HomeLatin American progressives and environmental duplicity
What governments must do, now more than ever, is decisively leave resources in the ground, reject mining projects,...
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Published in: HomeEl Salvador: crisis of masculinity in a machista society
Unless the crisis of masculinity in El Salvador is directly tackled, no effort on behalf of women’s organizations...
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Published in: openSecurityEl Salvador's gang problem: the truth behind the truce
Will El Salvador's new president deploy state or civil society to address the recent spikes in violence, as politics...