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President Funes Visit to the U.S.
The president of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, will be in Washington DC this week to meet with U.S. officials, business interests, and the International Development Bank (IDB). His agenda includes disc… more →
Voices from El Salvador
Former Salvadoran President Tony Saca Hoping To Wedge His Way Back Into Power
wrote 2 days ago: Ex-President Antonio “Tony” Saca (Wikipedia) Ex-President Antonio Saca (2004-2009) has m … more →
El Salvador Continues To Sound The Alarm Over Guatemalan Gold Mine
wrote 5 days ago: Desperate to ward off what they claim is a “slow and sure danger” to residents in El Salvador, frust … more →
Inter-American Human Rights Court Takes El Salvador To Task Over El Mozote Massacre
wrote 5 days ago: An international court ruling on the infamous “El Mozote massacre” of 1981 has put new pressure on S … more →
Gang Truce Cuts El Salvador’s Murder Rate By 40%
wrote 1 week ago: Nine months after agreeing to an historic truce, jailed leaders from El Salvador’s largest street ga … more →
US Judge To Sentence Salvadoran ‘Jesuit Massacre’ Suspect
wrote 1 week ago: Inocente Orlando Montano is by no means the only former Salvadoran military official implicated in t … more →
El Salvador’s Principal Parties Quick To Pick Their Presidential Candidates
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wrote 1 week ago: El Salvador’s two principal political parties – the rightist Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA … more →
El Salvador Settles Convoluted Constitutional Crisis
wrote 1 week ago: Three months and seventeen rounds of negotiations later, things are finally back to “normal” in El S … more →
What’s Next For El Salvador’s Life-Saving Gang Truce?
wrote 1 week ago: A tenuous truce between rival street gangs has held up for four months and counting, halving El Salv … more →
El Salvador - De las elecciones a las traiciones
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Por Federico Calderón N. Estudiante de Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales Ave Maria Uni … more →
President Funes Visit to the U.S.
wrote 1 month ago: The president of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, will be in Washington DC this week to meet with U.S. o … more →
Dollarization: “A Sack of Unfulfilled Promises”
wrote 3 months ago: In January 2001, El Salvador began the dollarization process, which changed the official currency fr … more →
El Salvador’s Armed Forces Veterans Take the Streets
wrote 3 months ago: On January 8, 2013, Salvadoran police clashed with military veterans who had blockaded several of El … more →
World Bank Helps Canadian Miner Continue Its Pursuit Of Salvadoran Gold
wrote 3 months ago: Civil society groups lobby to keep mining out of El Salvador (zambomba/flckr) El Salvador has alread … more →
Another small step forward in El Salvador
wrote 4 months ago: By Antonio Sampaio, Research Assistant, Survival and the Armed Conflict Database Earlier this month, … more →
The El Mozote Masacre: Inter-American Court of Human Rights Determines El Salvador Violated American Convention on Human Rights
wrote 5 months ago: El Mozote On December 11, 1981, the Salvadoran military detained and systematically executed virtual … more →
The El Mozote Massacre: Recent Salvadoran Efforts To Redress the Crimes
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wrote 5 months ago: On December 11, 1981, the Salvadoran military detained and systematically executed virtually all of … more →
El Salvador Elections: Modest Victory For Right-Wing ARENA
wrote 8 months ago: El Salvador’s rightist ARENA party picks up seats in the unicameral legislature (Flickr/-Chupa … more →
The FMLN Chooses a Weak Candidate for the 2014 Presidential Elections
wrote 10 months ago: As of last week, Sánchez Cerén appears to be the FMLN’s candidate for the 2014 presidential el … more →
El Salvador: President Funes Irks Armed Forces With Emotional El Mozote Apology
wrote 10 months ago: Memorial to the Civil War-era massacre in El Mozote (Alison McKeller/Flickr) As El Salvador marked t … more →
