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Welcome (back) to Intipucá: economía de consumo y migración fallida en El Salvador
Abstract: Intipucá is a very small, dusty and hot town in rural El Salvador. However, it used to be one of the richest towns in the country. Said richness, however, [...]
The lady in the pictures: distant mothers, successful professionals and burnout syndrome
My friends find it hard to believe that I have no childhood memories of my mother. Sure there are pictures in her photo albums that prove that she was indeed [...]
La pronta justicia como base del contrato social: el caso del juicio por genocidio en Guatemala
Abstract: Guatemala is to hold the first genocide trial in Latin America in March 2013. A former president and some other high-rank Army generals and colonels will be also facing [...]
Borracho sí, fumador no
Abstract: Salvadoran society doesn’t have any problem with heavy drinking but is quite severe with tobacco consumption. Why is it that the country with most alcohol-related deaths worldwide celebrates alcohol [...]
El peregrinaje campesino por atención sanitaria en Centroamérica
Abstract: Centralamericans believe that the rural misery portrayed by the media in the seventies is gone. Most peasants have left the countryside and now live in the cities or in [...]
All books and no play makes Jack an out-of-work boy
The author would LOVE to thank Ligia María Orellana for her awesome drawings and her awesome self. I have a friend who’s studying abroad, in Mexico. She’ll have a PhD [...]
The Drought Strikes Back: Power Production in Central America
Abstract: Hydroelectric power is very much like petrol: no one thinks we’ll ever run out of it until we do. Water is bountiful in Central America, you may think; we have [...]
La paz como insulto
Abstract: In Central America, we can rarely determine what we should understand as “peace”. If it were to be understood only as the absence of war, then yes, we live [...]
Los rostros de San Salvador
Abstract: San Salvador was a small town built by a group of architects who didn’t dare to dream big. It was meant to be just a small town in a [...]
Minería y agua: caso Cerro Blanco (Guatemala-El Salvador)
Abstract: In El Salvador, where access to potable water is yet to be acknowledged by the law as a guarantee to all citizens, therefore forcing the government to ensure it [...]
