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March 14, 2018 | Pulitzer Center
Field Notes: Meeting with Alfredo Cristiani
Pursuing an interview with former President of El Salvador Alfredo Cristiani.
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El Salvador
March 05, 2018 | Public Health Post, Global Health NOW
The Fight to Overturn El Salvador’s Abortion Ban
Abortion is illegal in El Salvador, and even women who suffer miscarriages have been sentenced to 30-year prison terms. But advocacy groups are highly-organized, skilled, and committed to the fight.
December 07, 2017 | The New York Review of Books
‘My Only Friend Is My Conscience’: Face to Face with El Salvador’s Cold Killer
Talking about the civil war was futile with Ochoa. A rambling discussion of Vietnam and ancient Rome, and Putin, Napoleon, and General MacArthur (three of his idols) was peppered with bald, personal pronouncements.
November 22, 2017 | Pulitzer Center
Did Zika Impact Sex Education in El Salvador?
“When the Zika crisis began, we didn't know that Zika could be sexually transmitted,” said Cristina Perez de Natividad, “so initial proposals and plans didn’t include reproductive health education."
October 25, 2017 | Field Notes
El Salvador: The Youth Are the Ones Who Are Dying
A glimpse into daily life in San Salvador, often called the murder capital of the world.
March 03, 2017 | Huffington Post
El Salvador: The Man Who Digs up Dead Bodies for Living
In violent El Salvador, he might be digging his own grave.
February 21, 2017 | SBS: Dateline
Lawyer for the Dead in El Salvador
In El Salvador, home of the bloodiest gang violence in the world, we follow one man’s gruesome struggle to bring dignity and closure to the families of the victims.
January 16, 2017 | The New Yorker
El Salvador: The Deportees Taking Our Calls
How American immigration policy has fueled an unlikely industry in El Salvador.
November 17, 2016 | Pulitzer Center
San Salvador's Millenial Mayor
Millenial mayor of San Salvador Nayib Bukele has promised to transform San Salvador into a "city of lights"—and he's doing so in unconventional ways. Will his strategies work?
November 01, 2016 | The Guardian
San Salvador: Can a Millennial Mayor Save One of the World’s Most Violent Cities?
Nayib Bukele is trying to wrest control of El Salvador’s capital from the grip of murderous gangs. His weapons? Gentrification, Instagram and YouTube.
October 03, 2016 | Virginia Quarterly Review
San Salvador's Prince of Peace
San Salvador’s upstart mayor, Nayib Bukele, has promised a new way forward for a city besieged by decades of violence. His biggest obstacle, however, may not be the city’s gangs, but the city’s idea of itself.
March 30, 2016 | Pulitzer Center
Where Is Home? Children’s Rights in El Salvador
El Salvador's sole child protection law, LEPINA, passed in 2010, although a good start, leaves much to be desired in regards to interpretation and implementation.
April 29, 2013 | General news, Education news
Pulitzer Center 2013 Student Fellows Announced
Nearly two dozen Campus Consortium student fellows undertake reporting around the globe in 2013.
July 20, 2012 | General news, Project news, News Points
This Week in Review: The Heat Wave That's Here to Stay
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from Ecuador to Syria.