By Marta Castillo Ramos with photos by Aníbal Martel Peña
About one out of every ten Hispanics in the Boston metropolitan area is Salvadoran, according to the 2010 American Community Survey. Yet little is known on the outside about this community, just occasional references to an extraordinary restaurant that sells the Salvadoran pancakes known as pupusas or the sadder headlines about local gang activity with its origins in El Salvador.
Historically, Salvadorans arrived in the United States fleeing the civil war (1980–1992). Many others were forced to leave after the ravages of the strong earthquake in 2014. Nowadays, many of…
Text by Sofía Jarrín-Thomas & photos by Aníbal Martel | ReVista at Harvard University
Miguel was six years old when he was forced to witness the execution of his first-grade teacher for participating in a teachers’ strike. “What I remember is that the guard turned around and pointed a G-3 to our heads and told us that if we went down that road, he would kill us too.” The image of the teacher falling on the school grounds haunts him to this day. The story of Miguel (not his real name) is one of several personal testimonies I heard during…
Texto: Cristina Rojo | Nueva York | Fotografía: Aníbal Martel para www.ballenablanca.es
Harvard University
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)
By Andrea Volpe, GSAS Communications
Photos by Aníbal Martel | anibalmartel.com
Texto de Thenesoya Vidina Martín De la Nuez y fotografías de Aníbal Martel para Atlántica revista de arte y pensamiento.
AeroFarms — Texto de cristina rojo (theredstories.wordpress.com)y fotografía de Aníbal Martel (www.anibalmartel.com) para Ballena Blanca (www.ballenablanca.es)
CISLANDERUS Cultural Project: Text by Thenesoya Vidina Martín De la Nuez and Photos by Aníbal Martel
The coastal wetlands of Louisiana are part of the world’s seventh-largest river delta. A study published by the United States Department of the Interior concluded that between 1932 and 2010 approximately 4,877 km2 (1,883 square miles) of coastal Louisiana disappeared under water. What is the significance of this fact, you may ask, and what connection is there between this submerged land and the descendants of people from the Canary Islands living in Louisiana today, whose photographs we present here? Both stories, of the land…
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