What’s Really Happening in El Salvador?
Comments OffWhile Mauricio Funes, the president of El Salvador, is busy making history in his own country, critics at home and here in the United States have gotten busy rewriting history. The core complaint – issued here, by Alex Renderos in the L.A. Times and by others – is that Funes hasn’t finished remaking El Salvador [...]
16 killed in El Salvador bus attacks
Comments OffAt least 16 people were killed when street gangs attacked two passenger buses, spraying one with bullets and dousing the other with gasoline before setting it on fire in a congested neighborhood in the Salvadoran capital, police said Monday. The attacks represented a dramatic surge in ongoing street violence attributed largely to gangs but exacerbated [...]
Missing Lesbian Mom in El Salvador?
Comments OffA woman who has gone missing with her 8-year-old daughter has reportedly fled the United States,just as the custody battle between her and her former lesbian partner advances. Lisa Miller and her biological daughter, Isabella Miller-Jenkins, are believed to be in El Salvador, according to the Associated Press. In January, Miller failed to appear in [...]
El Salvador, in celebrating Roque Dalton, confronted by bitter past
Comments OffAn old killing has come back to haunt the government of President Mauricio Funes, scarcely a year after he took office as El Salvador’s first leftist leader. Roque Dalton, the nation’s most famous poet, was killed 35 years ago by comrades in the leftist guerrilla movement that fought in the long civil war. Now the [...]
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 [...]
