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How a small group of activists took down the mining company destroying a Salvadoran watershed
This time, David beat Goliath.
A US son of Salvadoran parents explores his complex identity
Roberto Lovato’s harrowing memoir is a process of personal and collective unveiling.
Our responsibility to Salvadoran immigrants
In the 1980s, the U.S. didn’t cite "America first" and stay out of El Salvador's civil war.
Undocumented immigrants in their full humanity
Lauren Markham documents the bravery of two migrant brothers from El Salvador—and their mistakes, too.
by Amy Frykholm
"Tell the judge he wasn't lying"
After Moises was killed, his brother asked us to write to the American official who denied his asylum claim.
"Belief is not the 'substance of things hoped for.' Faith is."
interview by Elizabeth Palmer
I didn't start my day thinking about gang killings. But then a man showed up and asked about a funeral for his nephew—on Palm Sunday.
The driver would only take me to Mejicanos once he talked to my contact at St. Francis of Assisi's. The church is neutral territory in a bloody landscape.
Text and photographs by Paul Jeffrey
Last year, the U.S. took thousands of "family units" into custody at the southern border. Nearly every woman cites violence as the reason she fled.
by Amy Frykholm
When the ICE agents left, Francisco Aguirre’s supporters called Augustana Lutheran. The church had been preparing for years to take the call.
by Gregg Brekke