WorldcrunchCarmen Valeria Escobar is a Shifting Democracies Fellow at Global Press Journal. Carmen’s work has been published in The Washington Post, El País and Wired. A former professor of journalism at the University of Central America José Simeón Cañas (UCA), Carmen is a Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Young Journalists Award finalist and led the fact-checking team at independent magazine Gato Encerrado.
In downtown San Salvador, longtime vendors face abrupt evictions amid Bukele’s push for revitalization. For thousands of street vendors who risk centuries of history for security, the promise of safety now comes with the heavy cost of lost livelihoods.