Editing

I edit journalism on Central America and the United States, across formats, audiences, and languages.

Central America Monthly

A digital magazine publishing long-form narrative journalism, visual and audio reporting, and essays from academia. For each issue, I edit reporting, oversee design, and write an introductory essay. Each month, I ask: What does the English-speaking world need to understand about Central America?

In 2025, we published our first eight issues. Here are a few cover stories.

• Rumblings in Honduras: Final Stretch to Elections Marked by Old Faces and Older Vices
• Hear Their Voices: Death, Torture, and Starvation in Bukele’s Prisons
• Tarmac of Tears: Back in Guatemala, Trump’s Deportees Weep

Editing regional reporting

I work closely with a small team of reporters and photojournalists in Central America and the United States, shaping weekly reporting and in-depth features across formats, from conception through publication in English and Spanish.

• Print: Central American Autocrats Seek to Erase University Autonomy — Leyrian Colón Santiago, August 2025
• Podcast: The Deportation of Mario Guevara: Where Attacks on Immigrants and Journalists Collide — Yuliana Ramazzini, October 2025
• Photography: Nine Minutes in the Fire, Eight Years for First Light — Edward Grattan, November 2025

English adaptations

I oversee the adaptation of El Faro’s narrative and visual journalism for English-speaking audiences, focusing on pressing and underexplored issues in Central America today.

• Nicaragua: 2018, An Uprising Crushed: a three-part series of chronicles of the birth of the ongoing repression in Nicaragua — reporting by Carlos Dada and Carlos Martínez; translated by Max Granger
• Los Angeles: The Journey of the Mara Salvatrucha: a two-part chronicle of the genesis of Central America’s most infamous gang — reporting by José Luis Sanz and Carlos Martínez; translated by Ali Sargent
• El Salvador: Disappeared in El Salvador: photo essays tracing the evolution of violence in El Salvador from civil war to gang control to state of exception — curated by me and Víctor Peña; photos by Peña and Carlos Barrera