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Last night, I came across a nugget of history that will hopefully make everyone smile on this stressful today.
El Salvador, like so many places, has a rich indigenous history. Panchimalco, an indigenous community south of the capital, was known for a curious custom...
El Salvador, like so many places, has a rich indigenous history. Panchimalco, an indigenous community south of the capital, was known for a curious custom...
In the early 1900s, nativos here believed that the eleventh day following the start of a full moon was the best day to make healthy, strong babies. (Any day before this day would produce "cowardly men")
So each day, on this special day, at around 9 o'clock at night, indigenous leaders walked through the village with a drum, proudly shouting:
"Now is the time to conceive, gentlemen!"
"Now is the time to conceive, gentlemen!"
State Department says US cutting off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras. Most of that $ was for military bases, police training, & failed policies anyway #CentAmStudies cnn.it/2FGFkrw
It is just so frustrating to see how little they understand about how US-enforced policies are precisely what are driving people out
Sickening that the very country that spends billions to destabilize a region refuses to invest in building the infrastructure for stability
I held out as long as I could, but then listened to that recording of the children. They call out for their papá, respond to questions about where they're from. El Salvador. Guatemala. And they keep crying out for their fathers. #CentAmStudies
I have written about families torn apart in other ways, mostly as a result of US foreign policy (military and economic intervention). Being unable to reside together for many years is soul-crushing for many who live that experience
In the cases I wrote about, though, in transnational families when parents had some very limited agency to make the decision to leave, the children at least usually stayed with a loved one.
