Category: Photo Essays
October 18, 2018 > John Sevigny
El Salvador’s Murdered Ex-Archbishop is Canonized
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – At 2 a.m. local time last Sunday, while gang-related killings continued throughout the country, El Salvador’s murdered former Archbishop Oscar Romero was canonized. It may have […] Read More >
October 5, 2018 > Isabel Caballero-Samper
50th Anniversary Tlatelolco Massacre Protest
MEXICO CITY—The city center was paralyzed on Tuesday by the floods of mainly young people marching from the Plaza of the Three Cultures to the Zócalo, the two main squares […] Read More >
June 23, 2016 > Camila Osorio
FARC Rebels and Colombia’s Government are one Step Closer to Signing a Peace Deal
BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA — On April 9, 1948, Colombian liberal presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was murdered in downtown Bogotá. A hired hitman approached Gaitán at noon and shot him. The […] Read More >
May 28, 2015 > Nicki Fleischner
Photo Essay: Cubans Participate (or Don’t) in Havana’s 12th Biennial
HAVANA, Cuba — A stream of Cuban children push and jostle one another, fighting for a spot at the front of the line. A mother blows a whistle hanging from […] Read More >
April 28, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
In New York, Protesters Against Police Brutality Embrace Families of Mexico’s Missing Students
NEW YORK — Seven months to the day after watching two of his classmates get shot in the head and many more get taken away — never to be heard […] Read More >
March 16, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
Mass Protests in Brazil Call for Impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff
Protesters in over 150 cities across Brazil demanded the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and an end to corruption on Sunday. Rousseff’s administration is struggling to reverse an economic downturn […] Read More >
October 9, 2014 > Camila Osorio and Kristian Jebsen
Leftist Groups in New York Protest Student Killings in Mexico
NEW YORK — Dozens of activists congregated outside the Mexican consulate to protest the Sept. 26 attack in Mexico’s Guerrero state that left six dead, 25 injured and at least 43 students […] Read More >
September 29, 2014 > Danielle Mackey
Community Roundtable in El Salvador Seeks to Mitigate Violence
ILOPANGO, El Salvador — In 2012, the two major Salvadoran gangs, MS-13 and the 18th Street Gang, brokered a truce supported by the government. The gang leaders agreed to stop […] Read More >
September 22, 2014 > Camila Osorio and Alex Hall
Latin Americans March In NYC Against Climate Change
NEW YORK — The People’s Climate March drew more than 300,000 people to Manhattan on Sunday to demand world leaders to take action on climate change. Demonstrators came from all over […] Read More >
December 24, 2012 > James Rodriguez
Oxlajuj Baktun: Maya Era Ends, As Longstanding Tensions Remain
HUEHUETENANGO, Guatemala — Events here during the much-awaited end of the Oxlajuj Baktun, a 5,129-year period in the long Mayan calendar, provide a clear reflection of the divisions and challenges faced […] Read More >