Posing by La Puerta del Diablo in El Salvador. January 2012. (Photo by Beatrice Carletti)
One of my resolutions this year is to learn more about my birthplace and cultural homeland: El Salvador.
I can already tell you that 2013 was the right year to commit.
This is an election year, there’s a remarkable truce happening between rival gangs, it’s been 25 years since my uncle became a national hero … and, oh yeah, my little country is locked in an extremely high-stakes legal battle with a Canadian mining company that could bankrupt the government in one not-so-unlikely scenario.
On that last point: El Salvador wants to become the only country in the world to completely forbid mining. Needless to say, Pacific Rim is not prepared to let them do that.
