(1971–2016) Berta Cáceres was an environmental organizer. Her mother, a midwife and activist, cared for refugees from El Salvador during the violence in the 1980s. She became mayor of their town and governor of the state at a time when few women held these roles.

(1920–1977) Adrían Ramírez Flores was born in Guatemala City in 1920. He was a teacher and writer whose work was dedicated to the perception and expression of children.

(1964– ) Nora Murillo is a poet, social worker, and professor.

(1959– ) Rigoberta Menchú was born in Chimel, Guatemala to a K’iche’ Mayan peasant family.

(1902–1980) Marilena Lopez was born in Guatemala City. She was an actress, essayist, playwright, and puppeteer.

(1909–1966) Oscar de Leon Palacios was a teacher, editor, and writer. 

(1934–1967) Otto René Castillo was born in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

(1952–2019) Humberto Ak’abal was born in Momostenango, Guatemala. 

(1917–1980) Archbishop Oscar Romero was a religious leader and activist in El Salvador during the 1960s and 1970s.

(1893–1932) Farabundo Marti was born in Teotepeque, a small farming community in El Salvador.

Claudia Lars was born in Armenia, El Salvador in 1899 as Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega.

(1944– ) Alvaro Rogelio Gómez Estrada was born in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala.

(1935–1975) Roque Dalton was born in Quetzaltepeque, El Salvador.

(1885–1936) Prudencia Ayala was a Salvadoran Afro-indigenous writer, social activist, and early campaigner for women's rights in El Salvador and first woman to run for president in El Salvador and Latin America.

(1935– ) Manlio Argueta was born in San Miguel, El Salvador. A student at the University of San Salvador, he helped found the University Literary Circle in 1956…

(1963– ) A politician and economist who served as the first Black woman vice president in Latin America in Costa Rica from 2018–2022.

Mini bios of important figures from Central America in the LGBTQ+ community.

Víctor Interiano (he/him) is a Los Angeles-based Salvadoran artist and creator of Dichos de un bicho, a social media platform and blog that examines life as Salvadoran diaspora in the United States through an intersectional analysis on systems of power and popular culture.

Learn how to make early reading and writing culturally relevant to migrant children from Central America and the Dominican Republic using this guide.

In this book, a young boy helps his mother prepare a soup the whole family will enjoy using ingredients from Mother Earth. Onions are “yellow as the dawn,” beans are like stars spread out on the “sky of the table” and the water in the pot is “as deep as a little lake.”