Between 1980 and 1991, the Republic of El Salvador in Central America was engulfed in a war that plunged Salvadorian society into violence, left it with thousands and thousands of people dead and exposed it to appalling crimes until the day–16 January 1992–when the parties, reconciled, signed the Peace Agreement in the Castle of Chapultepec, Mexico, and brought back the light and the chance to re-emerge from madness to hope.

The stories below were presented as my submission

to a group project for a class to fulfill my

Master’s of Liberal Arts degree at Harvard University.

The series was published at https://www.medium.com/@karlenejoseph in August 2022.