by Miguel A. De La Torre | Dec 10, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Suchitlán Lake is about an hour-and-a-half drive from San Salvador, mainly along backroads. Once there, we board a small powerboat named la Esperancito, “the little hope,” to continue our pilgrimage. We traverse the serene lake, hugged by undulating shores, for over...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 5, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
I remember my first reaction to a mass killing. It was the summer of 1984. I was a young man in my twenties, sitting in my La-Z-Boy reading the Miami Herald. This was before mass shootings were frequent occurrences, so I was not yet desensitized. A gunman strolled...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Feb 2, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
When we think of monumental Supreme Court decisions, we usually think about cases that fuel the culture war, such as abortion, affirmative action, marriage or racial equality. To our detriment, we often ignore those cases regarding business. The justices recently...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 23, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
What’s wrong with today’s youth? Baby Boomers like to ask this question. I found the answer in the Japanese anime series “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.” David Martinez, the street kid protagonist of the anime, is trying to survive in a dystopian, late twenty-first-century...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 9, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Editor’s Note: For many Christian traditions, the season of Epiphany begins on January 6 and ends on the first day of Lent. One of the benefits of growing up a Latine child in the U.S. is that we get presents twice during the Christmas season. Like everyone else, we...
