El Salvador gets 1st Cuban ambassador since 1960s
The first Cuban ambassador to El Salvador since the early 1960s has presented his credentials, the government of leftist President Mauricio Funes said Sunday.
Funes re-established diplomatic relations with the island after taking office in June, almost a half-century after ties were broken at the height of the Cold War.
The Salvadoran Foreign Relations Ministry said Sunday [...]
Filmmaker slain in El Salvador was worried about growing violence
Comments OffChristian Poveda was dismayed by the increasing viciousness of the gangs he had chronicled. ‘Government authorities have no idea of the monster facing them,’ he said a day before his death.
The day before he was killed this week, Christian Poveda, veteran photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, said he was worried. The Salvadoran street gangs whose lives [...]
The Gangs of El Salvador: A Growing Industry
The two most famous exports of El Salvador are rivals. Unfortunately, they are also ferocious gangs: Mara 18 and the Mara Salvatrucha. They have exported their gang culture — learned by expatriates returned from undocumented existence in the big cities of the United States — to other countries in Central and South America, re-exporting their [...]
El Salvador finds boat with Bangladeshi migrants
Comments OffSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Salvadoran navy says it has found 76 migrants from as far away as Bangladesh, Nepal and Eritrea aboard a boat in the Pacific.
Navy Capt. Maximiliano Corado says the boat was detected about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the coast, and “without doubt the final destination was to arrive in [...]
Soyapango, El Salvador
Comments OffUntil Wednesday, the most striking aspect of this photograph, taken last year, was the face of the woman. Tattoos give a menacing edge to the petite young mother. But since someone put four bullets in his head last week, ending a courageous life, the figure who commands our attention is that of Christian Poveda, the [...]
