Por la primera vez, pude leer mi poesía en persona en San Salvador, El Salvador. Estaba súper emocionada de poder compartir mis obras en mis tierras ancestrales. Gracias Janel, Alberto y el conjunto de Los Tacos de Paco por invitarme y todo el esfuerzo que hacen para promover la poesía en Centroamérica.

Detalles sobre el Evento:

Miércoles, 14 de noviembre a las 7:30 pm

En Los Tacos de Paco, Colonia Miramonte, Avenida Los Andes 2931, San Salvador, El Salvador

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For the first time ever, I did an in-person reading in San Salvador, El Salvador. I was super excited to share my work and to bring it all home! Thank you Janel, Alberto and the team at Los Tacos de Paco for inviting me and for all the amazing work y’all do for poetry in Central America.

Event Details:

Wednesday, November 14 at 7:30 pm

At Los Tacos de Paco, Colonia Miramonte, Avenue Los Andes 2931, San Salvador, El Salvador

Free Entry for All Ages

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Leyendo

Compartiendo de "Vos Cipota"

Poetas

Gracias Familia!

Museo De La Revolucion

Photo Gallery of the Museum of the Revolution

On my recent visit to El Salvador, I took a day trip to Perquín, Morazán on Saturday, July 1, 2017 to visit the Museo de la Revoluci ó n.

Perquín is located in the northeast section of the country. It was a town that suffered heavy casualties during the war and almost disappeared from the earth entirely. Knowing conceptually about the war did not prepare me to live into the space where the heavy fighting occurred.

Our tour guide was a former child soldier whose candid anecdotes brought life to each item in the museum collection.

There were so many pictures of young people. In fact, a number of the photographed individuals are alive to this day. They are teachers, members of legislation, government agents, politicians, lawyers, doctors, survivors. However, the war claimed over 75,000 lives in this tiny country, created a generation on the run and a diaspora of Salvadorans removed from their ancestral land.

Wall of Portraits

Juramentacion de La BRAZ. Llanos de Agua Blanca. Fotografia: Augusto Vazquez

Comandante Ana Guadalupe Martinez

Guerrillera drinking from a huacal (bowl).

Two young women in the guerrilla

Angelica Lopez: Lisseth.

Manuel Vega Centeno: Cmdte. Nino

Canton Las Marias, Cerro El Tigre.

Usulutan. 1 De Febrero 1992

Another striking series of images were the protest posters created during the war. The designers varied but the impact was profound.

Poster by Casa El Salvador - Farabundo Marti

German protest poster comparing USA intervention in El Salvador to the Vietnam war.

Poster by Confederacion de Asociaciones Cooperativas De El Salvador (COACES)

Posters by Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPED)

Poster for solidarity with Nicaragua

This was my history that was never included in the Texas textbooks growing up. It was until I was in college I read a paragraph about El Salvador in a book. This trip provided a glimpse into the massacres that changed the course of history, my history. Although the country is celebrating 25 years since the peace accords were signed, wounds this deep are felt on a seismic level.

Lastly, just a series of images and a video from the Museum. There was a choir practicing during the filming of video that made for a serendipitous soundtrack.