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Indigenous Peoples’ Claims ARE POLITICAL

August 10, 2013by jgmelara Leave a comment

For some time, indigenous peoples in El Salvador have been demanding recognition. Indeed, until recently, the mere existence of indigenous peoples was denied by the Salvadoran state and by Salvadorans […]

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El Salvador, environment, this is political

Our Relationship to Volcanoes IS POLITICAL

August 5, 2013by jgmelara Leave a comment

One of the key elements of indigenous worldviews in Latin America rests on harmonic relations between nature and humans. Recent indigenous discourses and activism focus on restoring the harmonic relationship […]

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El Salvador, environment, this is political

Billboards ARE POLITICAL

July 26, 2013by jgmelara Leave a comment

 Every time I go back to El Salvador, there is further evidence of efforts at catching up to Western countries. This is certainly true for the ARENA years, when economic […]

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El Salvador, markets, political pic, social injustice, this is political

CALACS IS POLITICAL

May 6, 2013by jgmelara Leave a comment

I recently attended the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) 2013 Congress. As much as CALACS was an academic conference, I felt that it was also a call for […]

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El Salvador, environment, markets, this is political

Salarrué & Co. ARE POLITICAL

April 24, 2013by jgmelara Leave a comment

In El Salvador, national storytellers are often revered. Salarrué (Cuentos de Barro), Alfredo Espino (Jicaras Tristes), and Miguel Angel Espino (Mitología de Cuscatlán) are examples of national authors that have shaped […]

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El Salvador, this is political

Very Inspiring Blogger Award

January 10, 2013by jgmelara Leave a comment

I was recently nominated for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. I want to thank Kathleen Reedy from Marking Time: The Afghan and Iraqi Wars as Seen by Those Who Live […]

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What the Mayans Got Right…

January 9, 2013by jgmelara Leave a comment

In light of the Mayans’ failure to predict the end of the world in 2012, I thought I would shed light on a couple of things they actually got right. […]

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