By Tony Mejia Coming soon... A Salvadoran chef's biggest decision wasn't leaving home—it was coming back.
Some people don't just witness change. They help create it. On the Frontlines • 2026 is Build El Salvador's annual series highlighting five individuals whose ideas, businesses, creativity, and leadership are helping shape the country's future. From entrepreneurs and innovators to community leaders and storytellers,
By Kiki Offutt Documented by Judith Price Coming Soon... A woman leaves Texas, pays for an old farmhouse in El Salvador with Bitcoin, and begins rebuilding it into an Airbnb—alone. What starts as a construction project becomes something much bigger: a story about resilience, reinvention, and finding home in
By Paloma Montiel · Contributor The first time I drove that road, I barely noticed the houses. I noticed the view. You couldn't not notice the view; the hillside dropped away toward the Pacific, and the water caught the light in a way that made it hard to keep
By Marco Reyes — Contributor It started as an ordinary morning at a café in San Salvador. Coffee. Laptop open. Interview notes from the day before spread across the table in no particular order. Then the building moved. Not a tremor. An earthquake. The hanging lights swung hard enough to hit
By Judith Price · Editor & Publisher We landed at San Salvador just after eight in the evening, the last of the daylight already gone. The airport was perfectly normal. Modern. Clean. Efficient. The kind of airport that gives absolutely no indication of what may come next. Our driver was waiting,