Central American Studies

Central American and Transborder Studies Events

Jason Wallach: activist and documentary filmmaker

Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 2:00pm

Jason Wallach - Until the Last Drop

Until the last drop: Tales from el Salvador's Agua Apocalypse, examines opposing visions of water management as they clash in El Salvador. This documentary provides an inside view of the Salvadoran movement against water privatization and battle over how to manage El Salvador's water, which could reverberate throughout Latin American, where water is becoming more and more scarce. Read more

Monseñor: The Last Journey of Óscar Romero

Monday, March 24, 2014 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Monsenor Oscar Romero

A film by Ana Carrigan & Juliet Weber, produced by the Kellogg Institute University of Notre Dame. Monseñor Romero was assassinated on March 24th 1980, for denouncing the human rights violations of the poor in El Salvador. Over 75,000 dead, more than 8,000 disappeared and millions of displaced within El Salvador and abroad. Thirty years after his assassination, the United Nations (UN) proclaimed, the day Read more

The Deception - a short documentary by Florence Jaugey

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 5:00pm

El Engano (The Deception) publicity stil

Seven survivors of human trafficking try to find words for their trauma. Grinding poverty in Nicaragua leads parents to pimp their daughters; women are abducted and sold at the border to Honduras. Some of them manage to escape and even find the strength to build up prevention projects for at-risk girls.

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