Thursday: Las Muertes Mas Bellas del Mundo at MLK Library

In 2022, D.C.-based Salvadoran poet and filmmaker Quique Aviles began writing “Las Muertes Mas Bellas del Mundo/The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World” while on a trip to El Salvador. There, the Duke Ellington School for the Arts grad found the graves of his relatives who were brutally killed in 1980 by far-right death squads during the country’s civil war. Their murders, which took place the day after he fled, at age 15, to the U.S., inspired the poem. Several years later, that poem’s title became the name of the 2024 film co-directed by Aviles and Ellie Walton about how Aviles and other Salvadoran artists in D.C. deal with the trauma of what happened in their home country and with life in the U.S. The movie, which Aviles started

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