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This memorial in El Salvador remembers loved ones lost fighting the United States.
If you've got a week to spend in Latin America, you can lie on a beach in Mazatlán,
you can commune with nature in Costa Rica, or you can grapple with our nation's complex
role in a country like El Salvador. I've done all three, and enjoyed each type of trip. But El
Salvador was far more memorable than the others. The tourism industry has its own prior-
ities. But as a traveler, you always have the option to choose challenging and educational
destinations.
After traveling the world, you come home recognizing that Americans are good people
with big hearts. We are compassionate and kind, and operate with the best of intentions.
But as citizens of a giant, powerful nation—isolated from the rest of the world by geo-
graphy, as much as by our wealth—it can be challenging for many Americans to under-
stand that poverty across the sea is as real as poverty across the street. We struggle to grasp
