The southeastern United States was spared the catastrophic damage many expect from fall hurricanes, but Hurricane Ida did its share of damage, floodin...
Save the Children | Save the Children | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home
Children and their families in El Salvador remain in desperate need of food and water more than a week after landslides and mudslides claimed lives an...
nydailynews.com | By John Marzulli | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York
The MS-13 gang's plot to murder a federal agent in New York has triggered a fierce crackdown - a blitz of predawn raids that have netted nine arrests....
Save the Children | Save the Children | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home
Save the Children has dispatched emergency teams to assist with the effort to provide relief to children and families in El Salvador after several day...
Save the Children | Save the Children | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
Save the Children has dispatched emergency teams to assist with the effort to provide relief to children and families in El Salvador after a devastati...
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
Rescuers search for survivors after heavy flooding as hurricane heads towards US....
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home
Hurricane Ida heads for Gulf of Mexico after leaving at least 124 dead in El Salvador....
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home
Storm moves towards Gulf of Mexico after leaving at least 91 dead in El Salvador....
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home
At least 42 killed in El Salvador as storm gathers strength off coast of Mexico....
nydailynews.com | John Marzulli | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
El Salvadoran leaders of the MS-13 gang allegedly put out a contract on the federal agent responsible for a crackdown on its New York factions, the Da...
Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
Bruce Riedel at Brookings says we have a vested interest in shoring up Karzai's legitimacy. That's not surprising, given that Riedel certainly has such a vested interest.
AP | MARCOS ALEMAN | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A French filmmaker who spent years documenting the brutality and desperation of a Salvadoran street gang has been fo...
Phil Bronstein | Posted 09.18.2009 | Home
He was called "The Prince of Darkness," not by his enemies but by his friends because of his contacts and his power to move the D.C. discussion. But that name reminds me of something very different.
AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 07.07.2009 | World
CHICAGO — Carlos Bocanegra scored on a diving header off Landon Donovan's corner kick in the 68th minute, and the United States rallied to beat ...
AP | MARCOS ALEMAN | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A journalist from a party of former Marxist guerrillas became El Salvador's first leftist president Monday, immediat...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.02.2009 | Home
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greets children upon her arrival in El Salvador, where she will attend the inauguration of Salvadoran Pre...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.02.2009 | Home
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greets children upon her arrival in El Salvador, where she will attend the inauguration of Salvadoran Pre...
AP | Posted 06.29.2009 | World
PARIS — The killer of the son of El Salvador's president-elect has been sentenced by a Paris court to 16 years in prison. Mohamed Amor admitted...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.02.2009 | Home
El Salvador veered left in its presidential election on March 15. From Europe to Latin America, voters elected new leaders and governments du...
Jon Santiago | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
Many people know that the U.S. has intervened in Latin American politics. Rarely do discussions of this proceed beyond a verbal slapping ourselves on the wrists for having "meddled."
The Real News | Posted 04.20.2009 | World
Just over 17 years since the 1992 Peace Accords brought an end to El Salvador's vicious civil war, the country has seen its first peaceful transfer of power.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 04.19.2009 | World
El Salvador's presidential election was not only another step toward regional independence but a triumph of hope against fear, much as in the U.S. presidential election of 2008.
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
El Salvador's newly-elected president Mauricio Funes has given his first interview directed towards English-speakers to discuss the historic importanc...
Washington Post | Posted 04.17.2009 | World
El Salvador's President-elect Mauricio Funes said he wants strong relations with Washington after his party of ex-Marxist guerrillas ousted their rig...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 03.16.2009 | Home
After 20 years of conservative rule by the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party, El Salvador elected leftist Mauricio Funes o...
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