What Does El Salvador Sound Like?
Five voices you may hear before breakfast. Documented by Judith PriceWith 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 Read More …
One Woman. One Farmhouse. One Decision That Changed Everything
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 Read More …
The Day People Started Building Again
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 Read More …
Nothing in El Salvador Makes Sense Until You Understand the Land
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 Read More …
The Surprise Nobody Saw Coming
By Judith Price · Editor & Publisher We landed at San Salvador just after eight in the evening, the last of the daylight already gone. The airport was perfectly normal. Modern. Clean. Efficient. The kind of airport that gives absolutely no indication of what may Read More …