El Salvador

novel El Asco by Horacio Castellanos Moya starts off by giving us a setting in a bar called La Lumbre. In this bar, there are two main characters, Moya and Vega, and Vega mentioned how he was glad Moya came to join him at the bar. They go on and talk about how long they have known each other since they both went to the same school, Marist Brother School, for eleven years. Vega had been gone for 18 years, living a better life in Canada. Vega then mentions how the only reason he came back to El…

San Salvador, El Salvador is home to over a quarter million people. But, San Salvador is also home to a huge criminal network of gang activity. These gangs are also known locally as maras or pandillas. These gangs engage in petty crimes such as such as purse snatching, robbery, taxing bus drivers and small stores in their neighborhoods, as well as small-scale drug distribution in certain parts of the city in order to fund themselves economically. In the past two decades, these gangs have not…

unfortunate byproduct of the Cold War, much about the Salvadoran Civil War is unknown territory to the modern generation. Perpetrated by the Salvadoran Government, the massacre that occurred in El Mozote on December 11th, 1981 left more than five hundred civilians brutally killed. Mark Danner’s The Massacre at El Mozote, provides testimonies and reports of major news outlets which shows the hidden reality about how the United States supported the authoritative Salvadoran government during the…

of Removal, relief under the U.N. Convention Against Torture, and, alternatively, Special Immigrant Juvenile Petition. “EL SALVADORAN MARRIED WOMEN WHO ARE UNABLE TO LEAVE THE DOMESTIC RELATIONSHIP BASED ON SOCIETAL NORMS” I. STATEMENT OF FACTS Respondent is a 34-year-old mother of two boys, who are currently 5 and 10 years of age. All are natives and citizens of El Salvador. Respondent and her two children entered the United States, on September 10, 2015 near Hidalgo, Texas, without…

I had the chance to interview a student named Claudia Arguello. She is a freshman entering George Mason University this year. In her previous year, she was a senior at Parkview High School located in Sterling, Virginia. She was born in Apopa, El Salvador and migrated to the United States of America when she was very young. Claudia is quite family oriented and loves spending time with them whenever she has the chance to do so. Like myself, she is interested in pursuing a career in the medical…

In less developed countries like El Salvador, the fight to stop the gun violence due to one problem of "In El Salvador and Honduras, there are a lot of gangs and drug trafficking, especially among younger men, and that has resulted in a big increase in gun violence." It’s getting to a point where the law enforcement is scared to engage and the citizens are afraid to intervene. Developed countries such as the United states and less-developed countries like El Salvador have to educate their…

El Salvador Location Where is the place? The longitude and latitude of El Salvador is 13° 42° North and 89° 12° West. El Salvador is located in the continent, North America. The hemisphere that El Salvador is located around is the Western Hemisphere How far away from home is it? El Salvador is about 2-4 hours away from Pennsylvania. You would travel 1,665 miles to get to El Salvador from Pennsylvania. What countries are neighbors of El Salvador? The countries that are nearest to El Salvador…

More so, the Reagan administration’s failed socio-political moves “throughout Central America led to the growing Mara Gangs in nations beyond El Salvador and Guatemala and extended to Nicaragua via the U.S.-Contra debacle” (222). Now, MS-13 is rampant across various nations and causing destruction in the United States, specifically a mass murder on Monday [4/17] on Long Island, where the bodies of…

all around with a mix or blend of different latin cultures. With the Salvadorans holding the main key to the eighth chapter in “Harvest Of Empire:A History Of Latinos in America” it gives a description of the reason why some left their homes of El Salvador that being a civil war that broke out causing lots of casualties and as more strife came so did power struggles in which assassinations had to be put in place. Same went for the Guatemalans who had bad political struggles caused by the…

El Salvador Alarmingly, El Salvador is the most dangerous and gang filled country in the world. El Salvador’s menacing nickname is the murder capitol of the world. It’s also the most densely populated. The gangs have declared war with the police and with other civilians who have not joined their ranks. Most gang members have a family at home who are forced to go into hiding. In order to survive, the women and children remain awake throughout the night to protect themselves from dangers of…