El Salvador to investigate Chavez claims
Comments OffEl Salvador is investigating claims by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that an assassination plot prevented him from visiting the Central American nation. Interior Minister Humberto Centeno gave no details about the investigation but said that he personally does not find it “strange” that Venezuelan intelligence detected a possible plot. Chavez canceled going to the inauguration [...]
El Salvador president-elect's son's killer jailed
The killer of the son of El Salvador’s president-elect has been sentenced by a Paris court to 16 years in prison. Mohamed Amor admitted stabbing Alejandro Funes in the temple with an awl during a fight in 2007 on a pedestrian bridge near Paris’ Louvre Museum. The 32-year-old had asked for forgiveness from Funes’ family. [...]
El Salvador grapples with rising bloodshed
Comments OffDrugs, corruption and a history of violence and abuse contribute to a per capita homicide rate that is 10 times that of the U.S. In the first three months of 2009, 12 people were killed each day.Why must el salvadorans continue to kill themselves for worthless things. Why are they not allowed to nuture life? [...]
El Salvador Links Police, Drug Trade
Comments OffSan Salvador – Salvadorian interim Attorney General Astor Escalante confirmed that the drug trade has penetrated top national police authorities, evidenced Saturday after a drug dealer was sent to prison. There has been information for long time about those relations, but the recent capture of Reynerio Flores by INTERPOL in Honduras and his imprisonment in [...]
New El Salvador President Insists on Fighting Crisis
Comments OffPresident Elect of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes and his transition team will finish today a meeting with international financial institutions when it is confirmed the new administration will receive its coffers diminished. In the closed-door meeting participate officials and specialists of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Interamerican Development Bank. Before [...]
