Why El Salvador—and Why Now? By Judith Price We started Build El Salvador with a fairly simple idea. Document a country in transition through the people participating in it. The people investing here. Starting businesses here. Buying land. Growing food. Building homes. Moving families. And, increasingly, choosing to call
Follow along as we investigate a couple considering buying land and building a home in El Salvador. Before they buy, we're putting the property through a series of real-world tests, from what's beneath the ground to whether the land can actually support the home they
Follow along as we investigate a couple considering buying land and building a home in El Salvador. Before they buy, we're putting the property through a series of real-world tests, from what's beneath the ground to whether the land can actually support the home they
Follow along as we investigate a couple considering buying land and building a home in El Salvador. Before they buy, we're putting the property through a series of real-world tests, from what's beneath the ground to whether the land can actually support the home they
Follow along as we investigate a couple considering buying land and building a home in El Salvador. Before they buy, we're putting the property through a series of real-world tests, from what's beneath the ground to whether the land can actually support the home they
Follow along as we investigate a couple considering buying land and building a home in El Salvador. Before they buy, we're putting the property through a series of real-world tests, from what's beneath the ground to whether the land can actually support the home they
Follow along as we investigate a couple considering buying land and building a home in El Salvador. Before they buy, we're putting the property through a series of real-world tests, from what's beneath the ground to whether the land can actually support the home they
When El Salvador Becomes More Than Home By Karen & Antonio Garcia · Documented by Judith Price Karen Garcia is convinced that she and Antonio have a sign. Not the kind you hang on a gate or stick in a window; this one is invisible, at least to people. Dogs, apparently,
Five voices you may hear before breakfast. Documented by Judith Price With Eduardo Herrera, La Libertad FIELD NOTES: Before we saw anything, we heard it. We stayed at Eduardo's place for a few weeks, long enough that the mornings stopped being a novelty and started becoming a routine,
By Kiki Offutt Documented by Judith Price We noticed the pool before we noticed her. We'd rented a cabana tucked into the jungle for what was supposed to be a six-month stay. Every trip into town took us past the same construction site. An old farmhouse, half-
By Paloma Montiel · Contributor The first time I drove that road, I barely noticed the houses. I noticed the view. You couldn't not notice the view; the hillside dropped away toward the Pacific, and the water caught the light in a way that made it hard to keep
By Marco Reyes — Contributor It started as an ordinary morning at a café in San Salvador. Coffee. Laptop open. Interview notes from the day before spread across the table in no particular order. Then the building moved. Not a tremor. An earthquake. The hanging lights swung hard enough to hit