Status Updates From Salvador

The US is sadly looking more and more like authoritarian El Salvador in the 80s

Read this in college for a Cold War in Latin America class and rereading because i remember very little/it feels pertinent

Really not used to this type of writing but I can confidently say it’s improving my reading comprehension
Slay Joan

If any word can describe Didion’s prose in this essay, it’s distant. In many ways, the daily violence and terror of El Salvador’s civil war is unimaginable for Americans. Didion articulates this thoroughly, making piles of corpses and disappearances monotonous. The reader feels far away from the violence of the place, even when steeped within it.