Meet the New Cohort of House Faculty Fellows
Six faculty members joined Dartmouth’s house communities this fall as the second cohort of faculty fellows.
Guatemalan newspaperman Jose Rubén Zamora released from prison
After spending 813 days in prison and facing a slate of procedural irregularities, leading Guatemalan newspaperman Jose Rubén Zamora will await retrial under house arrest.
Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar on the history of Central America. This is the first episode in a two-part series covering the late-19th and early-20th century rise of export-crop oligarchies and constant US intervention.
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s popular but authoritarian president, declares election win
Salvadorans voted this Sunday in elections for president, vice president and all 60 seats in the country’s unicameral legislature. As was widely expected, Nayib Bukele, the president since 2019, said he had won in a landslide victory.
Bolas de Fuego: Culture and Conflict in Central America
Focused on the conflict-laden twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Bolas de Fuego: Culture and Conflict in Central America shares stories of the desires, challenges and lived experiences of Central Americans during this time.
The CAFTA Template: Understanding Central American Migration in a Time of Dispossession, Repression, and Environmental Crisis
Expert Jorge Cuellar discusses how countries remain exploited “tributary societies to the US,” while that “sacred policy—the Central American Free Trade Agreement—has remained untouched.”
Shining a Light on Modern Central American Life
Inspired by his own family’s migration from postwar El Salvador, professor Jorge Cuéllar illuminates how Salvadorans foster hope and community.