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Mneesha Gellman

Latin America

Gellman, Mneesha (2025). “The State Department is lying about El Salvador.” The Hill. 8/23/25.

Gellman, Mneesha (2025). “The “World’s Coolest Dictator” Visited the White House.” Jacobin. 4/15/25.

Gellman, Mneesha and Sarah Bishop (2025). “Beatings, overcrowding and food deprivation: US deportees face distressing human rights conditions in El Salvador’s mega-prison.” The Conversation. 3/17/25.

Gellman, Mneesha. (2025). “State Inability to Protect: Expert Witnessing in Mexican Asylum Cases.” Latin American Perspectives. Special issue on migration and expert witnessing.

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Mneesha Gellman's February 2025 analysis on CNN of El Salvador's offer to house deportees from the United States. (Mneesha at 2:45)

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Salvadorans Have Traded Their Rights for Uncertain Security. (2024). Jacobin.

Safety For Whom?: The Cost of El Salvador's Latest Quest for Peace. (2024). Harvard Review of Latin America.

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El Salvador voters set to trade democracy for promise of security in presidential election. (2024). The Conversation.

Freedom of Expression Under Attack in Bukele's El Salvador. (2024). NACLA: North American Congress on Latin America.

Gellman, Mneesha. (2022) “The Democracy Crisis in El Salvador: An Overview (2019-2022).” Colombia University, Center for Mexico and Central America Studies, Expert Paper Series.

Free Spanish version here

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Gellman, Mneesha. (2021). “No nos importaba a nadie”: navegando en la búsqueda del éxito académico en Oaxaca, México. Polis: Revista Latinoamericana. 20(59), 59-78

2020. “Covid-Closures: When School Cancellation Means Return to a War Zone/Cierres por Covid: Cuando la cancelación de la escuela significa el regreso a una zona de guerra.” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America. 5/20.

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2020. “Landmark femicide case fails to fix El Salvador’s patriarchy.” The Globe Post. 2/6/20.

2020. “Deported to death: US sent 138 Salvadorans home to be killed.” The Conversation. 2/6/20. Available at: https://theconversation.com/deported-to-death-us-sent-138-salvadorans-home-to-be-killed-131345

2019. “US will send migrants to El Salvador, a country that can’t protect its own people.” The Conversation. 10/10/19. Available at: https://theconversation.com/us-will-send-migrants-to-el-salvador-a-country-that-cant-protect- its-own-people-124475

2019. "The Trump administration keeps making it harder to claim asylum. Here’s how — and why." The Monkey Cage. 8/15/19.

2014. “Insurgents and advocates: women’s claim-making in El Salvador.” Book chapter in Cuerpo, educación y liderazgo político: una mirada desde el género y los estudios feministas/Bodies, education and political leadership: a gender and feminist perspective. Ed. Sara Poggio and María Amelia Viteri. FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador, pages 37-64.

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