Clockwise from top left: Revolutionary leader Farabundo Martí, who was killed in the 1932 uprising; the author in guerrilla-controlled Chalatenango in 1991; the author (in white turtleneck) with his ...

“Terror is a given of the place,” concluded acclaimed writer Joan Didion after spending only two weeks in El Salvador in 1982. Salvadoran-American author Roberto ...

In 1982, Joan Didion famously wrote of El Salvador that “terror is the given of the place.” At the time, the country was in the midst of a civil war, which pitted ...

As much as a place, home is a story we tell ourselves. But when your family’s history has been obscured for generations, it’s hard to know where home lies. Lauret Savoy, professor of geology and ...

In the summer of 2015, the journalist and activist Roberto Lovato returned to El Salvador to do some reporting on why his family’s homeland had become the most violent country on earth. A few years ...

The drawing that the child migrant showed the journalist Roberto Lovato featured turquoise clouds, stick people and a big white moon. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

We look at how decades of U.S. military intervention in Central America have led to the ongoing migrant crisis, with Salvadoran American journalist Roberto Lovato, author of the new book “Unforgetting ...

When you walk into The Spring Center in Costa Mesa, California, it doesn’t feel like a typical medical office. There are no sterile white walls or blaring fluorescents. Instead, you’ll find soft light ...

The author Roberto Lovato is strolling around the concrete edge of MacArthur Park Lake, contemplating the role this place has played in the life of L.A.’s Central American community, himself included.

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