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About

Bienvenidx, me llamo Davíd Mejía-Canales.

I’m among the luckiest people on earth, I was born and raised in Cuzcatlan and now I rest my head, an the rest of me, on sunny Gadigal Country.

This website is named after fellow countryman Salvador Efrain Salazar Arrue (pen name, Salarrue) a celebrated, poet, writer and thinker. As a child, growing up in El Salvador, I was always drawn to his work because he wrotein the folkloric, slang-filled, Salvadoran Spanish that everyone around me spoke. His writing is so Salvadoran that it’s impenetrable to others. Also, After Salazar just sounds nice.

The Blog: Entre Nosotros

All these things happened among us… (Todo esto paso entre nosotros…) is the first line of the final report of the Truth Commission for El Salvador: From Madness to Hope.

The Commission was tasked with investigating the unmitigated horrors of the 12 year Salvadoran Civil War. I was born in the middle of that war, I remember it well, it also changed my life and the lives of so many of the people that I loved in deep, profound and complicated ways.

When I write a book it will be called All These Things Happened Among Us/ Todo Esto Paso Entre Nosotros. The book is still being written but for now you get this here web log.

This blog is an outlet, a (vanity) project, a hobby. I can’t vouch for any of it, but maybe you might. It doesn’t really have a format, there might be short stories, long stories, or a series of photographs, travel writing, whatever takes my fancy, really. It’s also a work in progress, I’ll add to it as I go. Check back often, there may be something new to see.

Thanks for being here, I appreciate it.

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