Danielle Mackey

Danielle Mackey is a journalist who lived mostly in El Salvador from 2008 through 2020. In 2021, she moved to New York City, from which she collaborates with investigative teams at Latin American outlets, publishes in U.S. media, and works part-time as a fact-checker at The New Yorker. She's currently pursuing long-term projects about security, policing and violence in El Salvador, and narco-related political and financial corruption in Honduras, and is a 2022 Jane Hoppen resident at Paragraph. She is originally from Iowa.

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| Danielle Mackey

The ‘world’s coolest dictator’ rounded up 60,000 people in a supposed crackdown on MS-13. A shrimp farming community is fighting back.

| Danielle Mackey

A Poet Confronts the Violent History of El Salvador

| Jennifer Ávila, Danielle Mackey

The hidden connection between a U.S. steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras

| Jennifer Ávila, Danielle Mackey

La conexión escondida de una siderúrgica de EEUU con la polémica mina de Los Pinares en Honduras

| Jennifer Ávila, Danielle Mackey

La conexión escondida de una siderúrgica de EEUU con la polémica mina de Los Pinares en Honduras

| Danielle Mackey, Jennifer Ávila

Las capas que esconden los rostros del fraude durante la pandemia 

| Danielle Mackey, Jennifer Ávila

The financial shield that hides pandemic fraud

| Cora Currier, Danielle Mackey

El Salvador is Trying to Stop Gang Violence. But the Trump Administration Keeps Pushing Failed “Iron Fist” Policing.

| Danielle Mackey

Seeking Justice at All Costs, from Colombia to Central America

| Danielle Mackey, Danielle Villasana

Deported Into a Nightmare

| Cora Currier, Danielle Mackey

Trump Administration Suddenly Cancels Refugee Program that Saved Lives of Central American Children

| Cora Currier, Danielle Mackey

The Rise of the Net Center: How an Army of Trolls Protects Guatemala’s Corrupt Elite