The Social Murder of Victoria Salazar: Neoliberal Capitalism and Working Class Precariousness in El Salvador

Authors

Steven Osuna, California State University, Long BeachFollow

Keywords

neoliberal capitalism, El Salvador, precarity, proletarian feminism

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Research Article

Abstract

On March 27, 2021, a Salvadoran refugee named Victoria Salazar was brutally killed by police in the Mexican resort town of Tulum, Quintana Roo. In this article, I introduce a “proletarian feminist analysis” to the study of Central American displacement and forced migration to argue that Victoria Salazar’s death is a “social murder.” Although Mexican police murdered Victoria Salazar, I contend that the social degradation and working-class precariousness in El Salvador and Mexico, all shaped by neoliberal capitalist relations of exploitation and afflicting cisgender and trans women in distinctive ways, set the conditions for Ms Salazar’s social murder.

Recommended Citation

Osuna, Steven (2022) "The Social Murder of Victoria Salazar: Neoliberal Capitalism and Working Class Precariousness in El Salvador," Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis: Vol. 1: Iss. 3, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/vol1/iss3/4