HISTORICAL MEMORY

Online exhibition. “Solidarity: Paths from the Past into the future

Unfinished Sentences: A Collaboration to Preserve the Historical Memory of El Salvador’s Civil War 

The history of USESSC (PDF)

Cronología de los hermanamientos (PDF)
 

SALVADORAN CIVIL WAR

PRE-WAR (books)

Manlio Argueta – One day of life

Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo Lauria-Santiago – To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, repression and memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932 

Erik Chang – Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940 

CIVIL WAR (books and articles)

US involvement in the war: The Atlantic – The Diplomat and the Killer 

The New York Times – The Massacre of El Mozote 

Erik Ching – Stories of Civil War in El Salvador: A Battle over Memory  

Molly Todd – Beyond Displacement: Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadorean Civil War  

Mark Danner – The Massacre at El Mozote

Ana Margarita Gasteazoro, edited by Judy Blankenship and Andrew Wilson, introduction by Eric Ching – Tell My Mother I’m in Paradise: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador 

 

CURRENT POLITICAL LANDSCAPE

Hilary Goodfriend – El Salvador’s new battlefield

El Faro – The Bukele clan that rules with Nayib

 

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Water crisis in El Salvador. Bibliography

Food insecurity and climate change. Bibliography.

Sugarcane cultivation and Chronic Kidney Disease in El Salvador. Bibliography.

Miguel Huezo Mixco – The Vulnerable Imagination: diaspora and natural disasters in Salvadorean culture  (PDF)

Thomas  R. Hughes, Jose Roberto Acosta, Jaime Lochhead – Large-Scale Sugarcane Production in El Salvador (PDF)

Kidney Disease – Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic 

Bishops of El Salvador warn against privatizing water 

Jen Moore, Manuel Perez-Rocha & Stuart Kirsh – Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Conflict: OceanaGold and the El Dorado Foundation in El Salvador

Damien Kingsbury – Gold, Water and the Struggle for Basic Rights in El Salvador

Escazú Agreement – El Faro: A Landmark Environmental Treaty Gets Little Traction in El Salvador

Tim Muth – Water issues in El Salvador (2021)

  

MIGRATION

The New York Times – The Deported 

The Teens Trapped between a Gang and the Law – On Long Island, unaccompanied minors are caught between the violence of MS-13 and the fear of deportation. 

  

SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Abortion – Harper’s: Where pregnant women have more to fear than Zika 

Amnesty International – El Salvador: Failure to decriminalize abortion is a terrible blow to human rights 

Neela Ghoshal – No Safe Haven for LGBT People in El Salvador

 

VIOLENCE

The Atlantic – El Salvador’s Gangs Are Targeting Young Girls – And the Trump administration’s immigration policies are certain to make it worse. 

The Intercept – El Salvador’s Youth Are Trapped Between Gang Violence and Police Abuse 

Univision – In El Salvador, violence is driving girls to suicide

 

USESSC – Fighting in the civil war while being LGBT+

The origin of USESSC 

Unfinished Sentences – Testimony Archives of war survivors 

The Invisible Crisis: The Female Face Of Forced Migration 

María in Nobody´s Land (A documentary about migrant journey from Central America to USA)  

1932 Cicatriz de la Memoria (in Spanish)

Rostros y voces del conflicto (in Spanish)