El Salvador
Cristian Padilla RomeroCentral America, Israel, Palestine, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, HondurasComment

Unveiling Parallel Atrocities: Historical Connections between the Genocide in Gaza and U.S./Israeli-Supported Genocides in Central America

“The ongoing U.S.-supported Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, where over thirty-four thousand people have been murdered, half of them being children, is a new iteration of a longer history of U.S.-Israeli settler violence exported across the globe. Like Palestine, Central America was a critical site of U.S.-Israeli counter-revolutionary violence that targeted Black, Indigenous, and impoverished working people on an unimaginable, sadistic scale.”

Cristian Padilla RomeroCentral America, Israel, Palestine, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, HondurasComment
Unveiling Parallel Atrocities: Historical Connections between the Genocide in Gaza and U.S./Israeli-Supported Genocides in Central America
Cristian Padilla RomeroHonduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, children, separation, violence

“Destroying the Seeds”: The cruel origins of violence toward children in the United States and Central America

“My family and I did not simply “choose” to migrate, we did so out of necessity. The uneven nature of the global capitalist economy increases forced migration, disrupting familial and social relationships in countless ways, not only at the US-Mexico border, but also when family members are pushed to leave their communities and are unable to take their children with them. I am determined to continue working on addressing the root causes that created the conditions we were forced to flee, such as US interventionism in Central America and in many other regions around the world.”

Cristian Padilla RomeroHonduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, children, separation, violence
“Destroying the Seeds”: The cruel origins of violence toward children in the United States and Central America
El Salvador, Latin America, The Americas, United StatesAlejandra MejíaEl Salvador, Central America, U.S. imperialism1 Comment

Made in USA: Images of Incarcerated Mareros Perpetuate Fear of Migrants Amidst COVID-19

“La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18, two of Latin America’s most infamous street gangs, originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s and were exported to Central America via the U.S. deportation machine. The gangs’ origins coincide with the start of the Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992), whose primary actors were the Marxist-Leninist guerilla group known as the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the heavily U.S.-supported, repressive military government of El Salvador. Waves of Salvadorans were forcibly displaced from their communities throughout the course of the war, many fled to Los Angeles to escape violence, poverty, and instability.”

El Salvador, Latin America, The Americas, United StatesAlejandra MejíaEl Salvador, Central America, U.S. imperialism1 Comment
Made in USA: Images of Incarcerated Mareros Perpetuate Fear of Migrants Amidst COVID-19