Tag: El Salvador
Bitcoin will soon be ‘legal tender’ in El Salvador – here’s...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
On Sept. 7, 2021, El Salvador will become the first country to make bitcoin...
Money alone can’t fix Central America – or stop migration to...
Luis Guillermo Solis, Florida International University
To stem migration from Central America, the Biden administration has a US$4 billion...
The situation at the US-Mexico border is a crisis – but...
Randi Mandelbaum, Rutgers University
The media create the impression that there is an unprecedented crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border,...
Deported to death: US sent 138 Salvadorans home to be killed
Mneesha Gellman, Emerson College
At least 138 people deported from the United States to El Salvador since 2013 have been killed, according to a new...
How climate change is driving emigration from Central America
Miranda Cady Hallett, University of Dayton
Clouds of dust rose behind the wheels of the pickup truck as we hurtled over the back road in...
How much power can one image actually have?
Nicole Smith Dahmen, University of Oregon and Paul Slovic, University of Oregon
When the Associated Press published Julia Le Duc’s photograph of a drowned Salvadoran...
Is cutting Central American aid going to help stop the flow...
Carmen Monico, Elon University
President Donald Trump has long made blocking the thousands of Central Americans who head to the southern U.S. border, most of...
Archbishop Oscar Romero was gunned down inside his own church 30...
Michael E. Lee, Fordham University
On March 24, 1980, the archbishop of San Salvador was shot inside his own church in a deliberate, cold-blooded murder...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
