Salvadorans Seek a Voice To Match Their Numbers
Comments OffFor nearly three decades Salvadoran immigrants have been among the nation’s most organized newcomers, founding clubs to raise money for schools back home, establishing medical clinics for new arrivals and battling in Congress and courts to gain legal status for tens of thousands of political dissidents who fled persecution by the U.S.-backed government during El [...]
El Salvador’s Funes marks
Comments OffMauricio Funes on Tuesday reaches his 100th day as president of El Salvador with a more than 80 percent approval rating, in spite of attempts by the opposition to paint his administration as a “government of deception.”
Funes, a former TV journalist who ran as a reformed leftist on the ticket of the Farabundo Martí [...]
El Salvador: body of missing activist found with signs of torture
Comments OffOn July 8, DNA tests confirmed that a body found in a well in Cabañas department, El Salvador, on June 30 is that of prominent community activist Gustavo Marcelo Rivera. The body was found by community members who had organized a search for Rivera, missing since June 18. Witnesses reported that the body exhibited signs [...]
El Salvador Against Honduras Conflict
Comments OffThe Honduras conflict needs a speedy solution but without keeping coupists in power until elections, emphasized Salvadorian Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez.
A rapid solution without keeping the de facto President Roberto Micheletti in the government until elections (scheduled for next November), noted the diplomatic cited Tuesday by the local newspaper La Prensa Grafica.
If Micheletti would remain [...]
Honduras Closes Main Airport
Comments OffThe interm president has flown to el salvador not being able to return to his own country. El Salvador among other latin american countries are in full support of zeleya in returning and letting demcracy take its course. others have not shown such support which i am surprised el salvador has. Usually they are quite [...]
