VIDEO: El Mozote, Then and Now: What the Survivors of Modern Latin America Can Teach Us About Violence and Trauma

El Mozote, Then and Now: What the Survivors of Modern Latin America Can Teach Us About Violence and Trauma Sarah Esther Maslin l February 8, 2024

“Sarah Esther Maslin Independent journalist who has worked across Latin America and is currently based in São Paulo, Brazil. She has spent nearly a decade reporting in El Mozote, El Salvador, a village where U.S.-trained soldiers killed over 800 civilians in a massacre in 1981, which is the subject of her upcoming book. From 2018 to 2023, she was the Economist’s Brazil correspondent and, before that, she was based in San Salvador. Her reporting has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, the Nation, and other publications. She is the recipient of an American Society of Magazine Editors award for journalists younger than 30, a Mirror Award for media reporting, and an Ochberg fellowship from Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in history.”