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 [...]
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, said 119 road accidents have been reported during [...]
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 [...]
El Salvador: anti-mining organizer missing, foul play suspected
Comments OffSocial organizations in El Salvador have denounced the disappearance of Gustavo Marcelo Rivera, a well-known anti-mining leader from the town of San Isidro, Cabañas department. Rivera is a local leader of the FMLN, the director of the San Isidro Community Center, and the legal representative of Amigos de San Isidro Cabañas (ASIC). He is a [...]
