EL SALVADOR | Thursday, 30 Apr 2009 | Views [330]
Don José looked smaller with his beard cut close. He spotted me from the steps leading up to the little store where he buys his Cokes and his smokes and called me over. He put a dollar and a half a pack of cigarettes in my hands; my protests, as usual, ... Read more >
EL SALVADOR | Friday, 6 Feb 2009 | Views [601]
“¿Por qué no me querés, hermano?” he screamed twice into the deaf muteness of the house, “Brother, why don't you love me?” David had found Don José earlier, in the park, with tears rolling down his face and snot soaking his beard. He thought at first ... Read more >
EL SALVADOR | Sunday, 23 Nov 2008 | Views [362] | Comments [1]
On a park bench one evening in Sensuntepeque, David Applegate and I sit talking about social change and about how sometimes that change has to come slowly. As we talk, an old campesino walks by, bent almost double under the bag of fertilizer on his ... Read more >
EL SALVADOR | Sunday, 23 Nov 2008 | Views [350]
“Ya estuvo.”
“Se ve un poco diferente ¿ no?”
“ ¿ Cuánto
le debo, entonces?”
“Uno cincuenta.”
“Ba.”
EL SALVADOR | Friday, 7 Nov 2008 | Views [405]
“ Si gana Obama
voy a celebrar como si ganara Funes ,” said a friend of mine a few days ago,
“If Obama wins I'm going to celebrate as if Funes had won.” Of the folks I talked
to today, many were in a celebratory mood.
“ Ganamos ... Read more >
EL SALVADOR | Tuesday, 28 Oct 2008 | Photo Gallery
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EL SALVADOR | Sunday, 26 Oct 2008 | Views [372] | Comments [1]
It's 5:15 AM in Papaturro, and already
one of my neighbors is blasting reggaet ó n
and norte ñ o tunes
through the early morning twighlight. I suppose it's about this time
that the day starts for most people in Papaturro—this time or
earlier—the ... Read more >
EL SALVADOR | Monday, 20 Oct 2008 | Views [311]
So it turns out it's extremely
difficult, in this wet climate, to set fire to a cardboard box
containing, in differing proportions, puzzle pieces and dead mice.
The rains have continued largely
unabated, a fact which has spelled ... Read more >
EL SALVADOR | Saturday, 18 Oct 2008 | Views [363]
“ ¡Hormigas! ” exclaimed one of the girls, and it seemed she was justified in her apparent shock. Quite suddenly and quite completely, the house had come alive with ants. We were out on the porch playing UNO when they came, myself and a few ... Read more >
EL SALVADOR | Saturday, 18 Oct 2008 | Views [388]
As I write the rain continues to pound the tile roofs of the campo cottages of Caserío Papaturro, drowning out the sound of my tapping fingers on the keyboard. “ Vienen las lluvias siempre a la misma hora ,” Doña Esperanza commented tonight ... Read more >
