Danielle Mackey

Mackey is an independent investigative journalist based in El Salvador and New York. She writes for U.S. and Central American media, and teaches in the journalism department at the City University of New York. More of her work is available here.

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COLOMBIA. 2017. The Cauca jungle where FARC guerrillas lived for 52 years. For the first time since it's formation, FARC members have been able to emerge from hiding and are currently living in a temporary camp as they wait for government-sponsored housing to be built.

Photo Essay: Out of Hiding, Female Rebels in Colombia Face Uneasy Transition to Civilian Life

Danielle Mackey, Newsha Tavakolian

- Mar. 25, 2017

After 50 years of warfare, the FARC guerrilla movement has reached a peace accord with the Colombian government. But demobilization is not easy, particularly for female fighters.

Police frisk alleged members of the MS-13 gang during a visit of participants in the Meeting of Best Practices on Peace Processes, Community Building, Intervention and Reintegration organized by the OAS in Ilopango, El Salvador on September 20, 2012. AFP PHOTO/ Jose CABEZAS (Photo credit should read Jose CABEZAS/AFP/Getty Images)

The U.S. Government Accused a Salvadoran Human Rights Activist of Gang Activity – Now He's In Jail

Danielle Mackey

- Aug. 8, 2016

The U.S. Treasury department publicly accused a human rights activist in El Salvador of being in the MS-13 gang; now he's been arrested.

Una Entrevista con Gustavo Castro, Testigo Principal del Asesinato de Berta Cáceres

Danielle Mackey

- Apr. 18, 2016

En una entrevista exclusiva, Gustavo Castro habla sobre la noche del asesinato de Berta Cáceres y las razones por las cuales el ambientalismo en Latinoamérica resulta ser tan peligroso.

Activist Gustavo Castro Soto arrives to attend a news conference at the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center in Mexico April 4, 2016. Castro Soto is a key witness in the March 3 fatal shooting of activist Berta Caceres in Honduras. REUTERS/Ginnette Riquelme (Newscom TagID: rtrlseven764859.jpg) [Photo via Newscom]

An Interview With Gustavo Castro, Sole Witness to Assassination of Berta Cáceres

Danielle Mackey

- Apr. 18, 2016

In this exclusive interview, Gustavo Castro speaks about the murder of Berta Cáceres and why environmental activism is so dangerous in Latin America.

A woman holds a picture of Honduran Human Rights activist, Coordinator of the Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) Berta Caceres Flores, reading "Justice for Berta", during a march for the International Women Day in Managua on March 8, 2016. The march was to demand an international commission to investigate Caceres' murder, which took place on March 3 in La Esperanza, Honduras. AFP PHOTO/ Inti OCON / AFP / Inti Ocon (Photo credit should read INTI OCON/AFP/Getty Images)

Drugs, Dams, and Power: The Murder of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres

Danielle Mackey

- Mar. 11, 2016

Berta Cáceres’s family strongly believes that someone involved with the Agua Zarca dam project ordered her execution.

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Danielle Mackey

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Photo Essay: Out of Hiding, Female Rebels in Colombia Face Uneasy Transition to Civilian Life

The U.S. Government Accused a Salvadoran Human Rights Activist of Gang Activity – Now He's In Jail

Una Entrevista con Gustavo Castro, Testigo Principal del Asesinato de Berta Cáceres

An Interview With Gustavo Castro, Sole Witness to Assassination of Berta Cáceres

Drugs, Dams, and Power: The Murder of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres

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Danielle Mackey

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Photo Essay: Out of Hiding, Female Rebels in Colombia Face Uneasy Transition to Civilian Life

The U.S. Government Accused a Salvadoran Human Rights Activist of Gang Activity – Now He's In Jail

Una Entrevista con Gustavo Castro, Testigo Principal del Asesinato de Berta Cáceres

An Interview With Gustavo Castro, Sole Witness to Assassination of Berta Cáceres

Drugs, Dams, and Power: The Murder of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres

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