January 8, 2016
Remember Nicaragua’s plans for a grand canal ? A little over a year ago, contractors broke ground on the ambitious scheme to construct a...
January 2, 2016
By most measures, 2015 was a dismal year for El Salvador. The country’s economy, in tatters, continued to stall. Women’s reproductive...
September 3, 2015
In El Salvador, each month is proving worse than the last. The country suffered an astonishing climb in murders this August—by far the...
August 3, 2015
A Warscapes reader from El Salvador wrote to me last night, requesting clarification on something I wrote in my post on El Salvador’s gangs...
August 1, 2015
The carnage being wrought in El Salvador this year is slowly attracting the attention of major English-language media in the United States...
July 26, 2015
The Economist needs to get its facts straight. The magazine ran an article this past week on the escape of Chapo Guzman from a maximum...
July 25, 2015
Efforts at bringing Efraín Ríos Montt to justice for war crimes in Guatemala suffered another delay this week. The former dictator and war...
July 11, 2015
Since late December, when preliminary work on a transoceanic canal traversing Nicaragua began, there’s been little cause for optimism...
July 7, 2015
This past month was the bloodiest yet for El Salvador in a year marked by spiking violence and insecurity. Some 677 people were murdered...
May 18, 2015
Since the 1980s, lawyer and activist Lucha Castro has been one of Mexico’s most prominent human rights defenders. In a country where...
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