El Salvador president under fire
Comments OffReporting from San Salvador– When Mauricio Funes took office a year ago as El Salvador’s first leftist president, he promised to “reinvent” the impoverished, polarized nation. “The Salvadoran people asked for change, and change starts now,” he proclaimed in his inaugural speech. His election was greeted with high expectations and celebration by many Salvadorans who [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
