Jorge Cuéllar
@jorgecuellar.bsky.social
writer of politics, inequality, culture, & everyday life in central america // assistant prof in latin american, latino, & caribbean studies // dartmouth college
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Congratulations to the Institute for Citizens & Scholars 2025 Career Enhancement Fellows including SDSU's very own Kishauna Soljour, UCI's Brenda Nicolas and Kevan Aguilar, and Dartmouth's @jorgecuellar.bsky.social !!
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Outstanding Scholars Named As 2025 Career Enhancement Fellows - Institute for Citizens & Scholars
Outstanding Scholars Named As 2025 Career Enhancement Fellows Award Supports Career Development Opportunities for Junior Faculty in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts.
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August 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Congratulations to the Institute for Citizens & Scholars 2025 Career Enhancement Fellows including SDSU's very own Kishauna Soljour, UCI's Brenda Nicolas and Kevan Aguilar, and Dartmouth's @jorgecuellar.bsky.social !!
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Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies professor @jorgecuellar.bsky.social discusses how Salvadorans regard Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, via the @bostonglobe.com.
Is Bukele still El Salvador’s savior? Not for all abroad - The Boston Globe
An über popular president once hailed as a bold reformer by Salvadorans in the United States is now facing backlash for aligning himself too closely with Trump.
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April 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies professor @jorgecuellar.bsky.social discusses how Salvadorans regard Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, via the @bostonglobe.com.
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Thanks @romangressier.com for reminding me of this piece I wrote last year. Reading it back just now it rings a bit prescient, harrowing, all too relevant to understand what’s happening now. @elfaroenglish.bsky.social
With Bukele Consolidated, Salvadorans Enter Uncharted Terrain
elfaro.net
April 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Interviewed for this piece by @marcelagarcia.bsky.social in @bostonglobe.com about the shifting perceptions among Salvadorans for Nayib Bukele due to his recent visit to kiss Donald Trump’s ring, the Kilmar Abrego Garcia error, and the ‘mass deportation meets megaprison’ arrangement.
Is Bukele still El Salvador’s savior? Not for all abroad - The Boston Globe
An über popular president once hailed as a bold reformer by Salvadorans in the United States is now facing backlash for aligning himself too closely with Trump.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Interviewed for this piece by @marcelagarcia.bsky.social in @bostonglobe.com about the shifting perceptions among Salvadorans for Nayib Bukele due to his recent visit to kiss Donald Trump’s ring, the Kilmar Abrego Garcia error, and the ‘mass deportation meets megaprison’ arrangement.
Thanks @romangressier.com for reminding me of this piece I wrote last year. Reading it back just now it rings a bit prescient, harrowing, all too relevant to understand what’s happening now. @elfaroenglish.bsky.social
With Bukele Consolidated, Salvadorans Enter Uncharted Terrain
elfaro.net
April 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Thanks @romangressier.com for reminding me of this piece I wrote last year. Reading it back just now it rings a bit prescient, harrowing, all too relevant to understand what’s happening now. @elfaroenglish.bsky.social
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‘He is not a gang member’: outrage as US ‘deports’ makeup artist to El Salvador Gulag prison for crown tattoos
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‘He is not a gang member’: outrage as US deports makeup artist to El Salvador prison for crown tattoos
Andry José Hernández Romero sent to an El Salvador prison after claim ‘crown’ tattoos proved he was a gang member
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
‘He is not a gang member’: outrage as US ‘deports’ makeup artist to El Salvador Gulag prison for crown tattoos
@tomphillips.bsky.social
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Jacobin( @jacobinmag.bsky.social )Radio Podcast w/ Daniel( @danieldenvir.bsky.social )Denvir "Dig:( @thedigradio.bsky.social )Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge( @jorgecuellar.bsky.social )Cuéllar" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Dig: Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
Podcast Episode · Jacobin Radio · 11/03/2024 · 1h 55m
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March 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Jacobin( @jacobinmag.bsky.social )Radio Podcast w/ Daniel( @danieldenvir.bsky.social )Denvir "Dig:( @thedigradio.bsky.social )Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge( @jorgecuellar.bsky.social )Cuéllar" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
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Crypto is a tool for neocolonialism in El Salvador
A look at Bukele's destructive antics in El Salvador, by yours truly.
"Seeking to devise new revenue streams to stave off financial crisis, Bukele’s recent designs seek to mine El Salvador—via cryptocurrency and the rush for precious minerals—to address economic stagnation and rising unemployment."
"Seeking to devise new revenue streams to stave off financial crisis, Bukele’s recent designs seek to mine El Salvador—via cryptocurrency and the rush for precious minerals—to address economic stagnation and rising unemployment."
Beyond the Iron Fist: Mining the New El Salvador
Marching towards what he calls the New El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele has revolutionized many aspects of the country's reality.
revista.drclas.harvard.edu
February 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Crypto is a tool for neocolonialism in El Salvador
A look at Bukele's destructive antics in El Salvador, by yours truly.
"Seeking to devise new revenue streams to stave off financial crisis, Bukele’s recent designs seek to mine El Salvador—via cryptocurrency and the rush for precious minerals—to address economic stagnation and rising unemployment."
"Seeking to devise new revenue streams to stave off financial crisis, Bukele’s recent designs seek to mine El Salvador—via cryptocurrency and the rush for precious minerals—to address economic stagnation and rising unemployment."
Beyond the Iron Fist: Mining the New El Salvador
Marching towards what he calls the New El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele has revolutionized many aspects of the country's reality.
revista.drclas.harvard.edu
February 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A look at Bukele's destructive antics in El Salvador, by yours truly.
"Seeking to devise new revenue streams to stave off financial crisis, Bukele’s recent designs seek to mine El Salvador—via cryptocurrency and the rush for precious minerals—to address economic stagnation and rising unemployment."
"Seeking to devise new revenue streams to stave off financial crisis, Bukele’s recent designs seek to mine El Salvador—via cryptocurrency and the rush for precious minerals—to address economic stagnation and rising unemployment."
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Big @thedigradio.bsky.social ep: intro to Stuart Hall's Marxism w/out guarantees w/ Michael Denning. Marxism as method to analyze historically specific complex contradictory capitalist social formations and what it means for making working-class socialist politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...
Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Hall’s Marxism—a Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictory...
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January 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Big @thedigradio.bsky.social ep: intro to Stuart Hall's Marxism w/out guarantees w/ Michael Denning. Marxism as method to analyze historically specific complex contradictory capitalist social formations and what it means for making working-class socialist politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...
Thanks for giving it a listen @jdconnor.bsky.social 🙏🏽
Making my way through @thedigradio.bsky.social's superb 3–parter on El Salvador (with Hilary Goodfriend and @jorgecuellar.bsky.social) and getting flashbacks to when I was a baby CISPES/AmFriends member in the sanctuary movement. Gonna take much more to stop Trump, Homan & a hypermilitarized CBP
January 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Thanks for giving it a listen @jdconnor.bsky.social 🙏🏽
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Making my way through @thedigradio.bsky.social's superb 3–parter on El Salvador (with Hilary Goodfriend and @jorgecuellar.bsky.social) and getting flashbacks to when I was a baby CISPES/AmFriends member in the sanctuary movement. Gonna take much more to stop Trump, Homan & a hypermilitarized CBP
December 30, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Making my way through @thedigradio.bsky.social's superb 3–parter on El Salvador (with Hilary Goodfriend and @jorgecuellar.bsky.social) and getting flashbacks to when I was a baby CISPES/AmFriends member in the sanctuary movement. Gonna take much more to stop Trump, Homan & a hypermilitarized CBP
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Historic Salvadoran environmentalist Vidalina Morales speaks plainly about the Bukele administration’s plans to revoke the country’s ban on metallic mining: “What does that lead to? To more criminalization and more death,” she says. elfaro.net/en/202412/el...
“If mining returns to El Salvador, we will face more criminalization and death”
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December 4, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Historic Salvadoran environmentalist Vidalina Morales speaks plainly about the Bukele administration’s plans to revoke the country’s ban on metallic mining: “What does that lead to? To more criminalization and more death,” she says. elfaro.net/en/202412/el...
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We focus on Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua but also extensively analyze Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, Belize. We end the third episode w a discussion of how the US helped make today's mass migration, which US political elites then made into a "crisis" to serve their own reactionary ends. 5/
December 6, 2024 at 10:12 PM
We focus on Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua but also extensively analyze Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, Belize. We end the third episode w a discussion of how the US helped make today's mass migration, which US political elites then made into a "crisis" to serve their own reactionary ends. 5/
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Ep 3: We end with a deep assessment of the post-war trajectories of the entire region through the present: Bukele's cryptopia in El Salvador, Ortega's authoritarian betrayal of Sandinismo, the mass movement backed new presidencies in Honduras and Guatemala—and more 4/ thedigradio.com/podcast/cryp...
Crypto Dystopia or Popular Democracy w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar in the final installment of a three-part series on Central America. This episode picks up with Nayib Bukele’s authoritarian crypto enthusiasm in El Salvad...
thedigradio.com
December 6, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Ep 3: We end with a deep assessment of the post-war trajectories of the entire region through the present: Bukele's cryptopia in El Salvador, Ortega's authoritarian betrayal of Sandinismo, the mass movement backed new presidencies in Honduras and Guatemala—and more 4/ thedigradio.com/podcast/cryp...
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Ep 2: Deeper into the armed struggles in El Salvador/Guatemala challenging brutal US-backed military-oligarchic regimes. In Nicaragua, the Sandinista Revolution that took power in 1979 fought off the US-funded Contra war. Deportation of refugees, the rise of gangs. 3/ thedigradio.com/podcast/neol...
Neoliberalism, Violence, Migration w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
Featuring Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar in the second of a three (not two!) part series on the history and present of Central America. This interview picks up our discussion of revolutionary armed...
thedigradio.com
December 6, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Ep 2: Deeper into the armed struggles in El Salvador/Guatemala challenging brutal US-backed military-oligarchic regimes. In Nicaragua, the Sandinista Revolution that took power in 1979 fought off the US-funded Contra war. Deportation of refugees, the rise of gangs. 3/ thedigradio.com/podcast/neol...
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Ep 1: the explosion of coffee and then banana exports and the resulting rise of powerful oligarchies; rapid intensification of US intervention culminating in horrific 1954 Guatemala coup; rise of armed revolutionary movements in Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador. 2/ thedigradio.com/podcast/olig...
Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar on the history of Central America. This is the first episode in a two-part series covering the late-19th and early-20th century rise of export-crop oligar...
thedigradio.com
December 6, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Ep 1: the explosion of coffee and then banana exports and the resulting rise of powerful oligarchies; rapid intensification of US intervention culminating in horrific 1954 Guatemala coup; rise of armed revolutionary movements in Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador. 2/ thedigradio.com/podcast/olig...
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Listen to this interview (first of three episodes) with Hilary Goodfriend & @jorgecuellar.bsky.social on the history of Central America!!! thedigradio.com/podcast/olig...
Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar on the history of Central America. This is the first episode in a two-part series covering the late-19th and early-20th century rise of export-crop oligar...
thedigradio.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Listen to this interview (first of three episodes) with Hilary Goodfriend & @jorgecuellar.bsky.social on the history of Central America!!! thedigradio.com/podcast/olig...
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The Dig's 3-part series on the history of Central America with @jorgecuellar.bsky.social and Hilary Goodfriend is a uniquely comprehensive and synthetic account of the region. Critically: you do not know US history if you don't grasp its fundamental entanglements in our so-called "backyard.” 1/
December 6, 2024 at 10:12 PM
The Dig's 3-part series on the history of Central America with @jorgecuellar.bsky.social and Hilary Goodfriend is a uniquely comprehensive and synthetic account of the region. Critically: you do not know US history if you don't grasp its fundamental entanglements in our so-called "backyard.” 1/
Quick reminder to pitch us by 12/13 for the Summer 2025 "Central America(s): Sites of Knowledge Production" issue of the NACLA Report! Please send us your ideas, and of course, consider subscribing/supporting to the magazine to keep the analysis flowing.
Call For Pitches | Central America(s): Sites of Knowledge Production
NACLA is currently accepting proposals for an issue on sites of knowledge production in Central America and the diaspora. Send your pitches by December 13.
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December 6, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Quick reminder to pitch us by 12/13 for the Summer 2025 "Central America(s): Sites of Knowledge Production" issue of the NACLA Report! Please send us your ideas, and of course, consider subscribing/supporting to the magazine to keep the analysis flowing.
Update on the decision to retry #SantaMarta5 and Bukele’s stated desire to pursue mining development “International Allies Against Mining in El Salvador condemns decision to retry ADES Santa Marta Five Water Defenders and Bukele’s attempts to overturn mining ban” ips-dc.org/release-inte...
International Allies Against Mining in El Salvador condemns decision to retry ADES Santa Marta Five Water Defenders and Bukele’s attempts to overturn mining ban - Institute for Policy Studies
The decision to grant a retrial presents further evidence of the deterioration of independence within El Salvador’s judicial system, and its politicization to punish and weaken the struggle to uphold ...
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December 4, 2024 at 4:53 AM
Update on the decision to retry #SantaMarta5 and Bukele’s stated desire to pursue mining development “International Allies Against Mining in El Salvador condemns decision to retry ADES Santa Marta Five Water Defenders and Bukele’s attempts to overturn mining ban” ips-dc.org/release-inte...
Get your subscription to @nacla now! Look at this upcoming issue coming in hot off the printer. "The Winter 2024 #palestinalibre issue of the NACLA Report explores transcontinental encounters between the land of historical Palestine and the land we know as the Americas." nacla.org/exist-resist...
To Exist is to Resist ¡Viva Palestina Libre!
The Winter 2024 issue of the NACLA Report explores transcontinental encounters between the land of historical Palestine and the land we know as the Americas.
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November 25, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Get your subscription to @nacla now! Look at this upcoming issue coming in hot off the printer. "The Winter 2024 #palestinalibre issue of the NACLA Report explores transcontinental encounters between the land of historical Palestine and the land we know as the Americas." nacla.org/exist-resist...
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Very excited for your pitches
Súper emocionada por posibles propuestas 🤓🙌🏾
Súper emocionada por posibles propuestas 🤓🙌🏾
Call for pitches for the Summer 2025 NACLA Report guest edited by @kcorinealdi.bsky.social, Jorge Cuéllar, and Paul Joseph López Oro on Central America(s): Sites of Knowledge Production - submit your article idea! nacla.org/call-pitches...
Call For Pitches | Central America(s): Sites of Knowledge Production
NACLA is currently accepting proposals for an issue on sites of knowledge production in Central America and the diaspora. Send your pitches by December 13.
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November 22, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Very excited for your pitches
Súper emocionada por posibles propuestas 🤓🙌🏾
Súper emocionada por posibles propuestas 🤓🙌🏾
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Call for pitches for the Summer 2025 NACLA Report guest edited by @kcorinealdi.bsky.social, Jorge Cuéllar, and Paul Joseph López Oro on Central America(s): Sites of Knowledge Production - submit your article idea! nacla.org/call-pitches...
Call For Pitches | Central America(s): Sites of Knowledge Production
NACLA is currently accepting proposals for an issue on sites of knowledge production in Central America and the diaspora. Send your pitches by December 13.
nacla.org
November 22, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Call for pitches for the Summer 2025 NACLA Report guest edited by @kcorinealdi.bsky.social, Jorge Cuéllar, and Paul Joseph López Oro on Central America(s): Sites of Knowledge Production - submit your article idea! nacla.org/call-pitches...