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 [...]
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 [...]
El Salvador reports 13 accident deaths during national holiday
A total of 13 people have died during the first four days of El Salvador’s August national holiday, said local reports reaching here Tuesday.
Eleven of them died in road accidents and two drowned, police said.
The chief of the National Civil Protection System (SNPC), Jorge Melendez, [...]
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 [...]
