El Salvador

Over the last month alone, four illegal aliens have been arrested on rape charges in Montgomery County. Marc Elrich, the county executive, claims that Trump and ICE are committing acts of "terrorism" by trying to enforce the law because it brings fear to the community.

John Carlos Frey’s Sand and Blood relates the roughly 140-year history of U.S. anti-immigrant racism and policy on the southwest border, and highlights its mostly pre-Trump, bipartisan intensification over the last thirty-odd years.

Max Blumenthal rolled up on the Soto Cano / Palmerola air base in Honduras, the US military’s largest in Latin…
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History never truly retires. Every event of the past, however inconsequential, reverberates throughout and, to an extent, shapes our present, and our future as well
The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his daughter, Valeria, who were washed ashore at a riverbank on the Mexico-US border cannot be understood separately from El Salvador’s painful past.

History never truly retires. Every event of the past, however inconsequential, reverberates throughout and, to an extent, shapes our present, and our future as well 
The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his daughter, Valeria, washed ashore at a riverbank on the Mexico-US border, cannot be understood separately from El Salvador’s painful past.

Following the drowning deaths of a man and his young daughter who were trying to enter Texas illegally, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele declared, "It's our fault." President Bukele pointed out that the dead man and his family fled El Salvador due to poor living conditions and violence in his country.

Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
— Kabir, “To Be a Slave of Intensity”
Strange how a man
Can enter your life
Just like that: a knock
Out of nowhere
And you’ve slipped away
To a rendezvous with destiny
That always awaited you.
— EJC, “The Birth and Death of Trauma”

If you are really going to be free, you have to overcome the love of wealth and the fear of death.
— Martin Luther King, Jr. as quoted by Andrew Young in the documentary King in the Wilderness

What is the ‘Monroe Doctrine’? In brief, it is a document which defines the entire Western Hemisphere as a ‘backyard’ of the United States. It ‘philosophically’ justifies Washington’s neo-colonialism, and the most barbaric coups it has been triggering, as well as covered and open interventions in the Caribbean, and in Central and South America.

El Salvador Perspectives | March 28, 2019 Thirty seven years ago this month, four Dutch journalists were ambushed by troops of the Salvadoran army and murdered. In early 1982, El Salvador was a dangerous place for journalists covering the civil war between FMLN guerrillas and the country’s armed forces. Despite the danger, four Dutch journalists,Koos […]