Cullman Center Institute for Teachers: Gang Warfare in Central America with Carlos Dada

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Gang Warfare in Central America with Carlos Dada

This seminar takes place during spring break.

El Salvador is one of the most violent countries in the world.  This seminar will explore connections among the following events:  El Salvador’s civil war between 1980 and 1992; the wartime exodus of families to California; young boys joining gangs in Los Angeles; U.S. deportation of gang members back to El Salvador; the beginning of violent gang warfare in El Salvador. The seminar  will examine photographs, videos, and reportage to explore the causes of this violence and its tragic consequences, particularly for children who fled their native countries last summer seeking haven in the United States.  

Carlos Dada is the founder and editor of El Faro, an online news site based in San Salvador. A Knight Fellow at Stanford in 2005 and a member of the Cabot Prizes Board at Columbia University, Dada has received the Maria Moors Cabot Award and the Internazionale Premio Anna Politkovskaja Award, among other prizes. His journalism has focused on war crimes and impunity. This year at the Cullman Center he is working on a book about the killing of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the death squads in El Salvador in the 1980s.

The deadline to apply to this seminar has passed. 

  • Audience: Adults