Oligarchy and US-Sponsored War in El Salvador

Earlier this week, President Biden closed the border to asylum seekers, many of whom are Salvadoran. To learn about their history and how it “ties into a bigger picture of U.S. imperialism in the hemisphere,” I spoke with Daniel Alvarenga, a Salvadoran journalist and the host of HUMO: Murder and Silence in El Salvador. As Daniel reveals, the U.S. doesn’t have the best track record of dealing with the problems it helped create in Central America.