by Chris | Sep 26, 2019 | Central America News, Mexico
This story keeps coming back to mind so I’ve decided to write about it. This was all over the news in 2014, just prior to the time that I decided to trek through Central America, starting in Mexico. When did it happen? Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico which is about 40...
by Chris | Sep 9, 2019 | Central America News, Disappearances
In 2009, Santiago Meza López, known as “el Pozolero” was caught dissolving bodies in Lye to make them disappear for cartels in Mexico. He dissolved more than 300 bodies for Teodoro Garcia Simental, the leader of a Mexican drug cartel that wanted him to utilize this...
by Chris | Feb 3, 2019 | Central America News, El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador
Shortly after moving to El Salvador, I was fortunate to be able to attend the celebration of the pivotal election of the new President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. I’m only a resident, so I can’t vote. However, everyone in my girlfriends family voted....
by Chris | Feb 1, 2018 | Central America News
Two journalists were murdered in Guatemala. Laurent Ángel Castillo Cifuentes worked for newspaper Nuestro Diario and Luis Alfredo de León Miranda worked for Radio Coaltepec. Both bodies we found in Suchitepéquez, in a sugarcain field the morning after both left...
