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El Salvador

Crime World

The Coffin Business Is Booming in Central America Due to Gang Violence

In El Salvador, Jucuapa is home to dozens of small factories that churn out what some locals call the “wooden pajamas.”

Matthew Bremner Bloomberg Businessweek Mar 2019 15min Permalink

Music

King of the Norf

The Inglewood rapper has survived the death, deportation, and displacement of his family and friends.

Jeff Weiss the LAnd magazine Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Crime

The Girl Gangs of El Salvador

In El Salvador, more and more young women are choosing—or being forced into—gang life.

Lauren Markham Pacific Standard Sep 2017 25min Permalink

Crime Health

Innocents

In El Salvador, pregnant women have more to fear than Zika.

Rachel Nolan Harper's Oct 2016 35min Permalink

Crime History World

The Diplomat and the Killer

In 1980, four American nuns were murdered in El Salvador. This is the story of how a young American official stationed there singlehandedly found the culprits.

Excerpted from Weakness and Deceit: America and El Salvador's Dirty War

Raymond Bonner The Atlantic Feb 2016 20min Permalink

Crime World

The Truth of El Mozote

The story of a massacre in El Salvador.

Mark Danner New Yorker Dec 1993 2h45min Permalink

Crime World

In the New Gangland of El Salvador

How LA-style gang life migrated to the slums of San Salvador.

Alma Guillermoprieto New York Review of Books Oct 2011 15min Permalink