El Salvador

El Salvador: HIV and AIDS Statistics

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tim Muth publishes the latest statistics on HIV and AIDS in El Salvador.

HIV/AIDS and El Salvador

Tim's El Salvador Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008

December 1 is World AIDS Day, and so it is worth looking at the situation relating to HIV/AIDS in El Salvador. A recent USAID profile provides an overview of the prevalence of the disease and efforts to combat it.  HIV and AIDS Estimates Total Population 5.9 million (mid-2007) Estimated Population Living with HIV/AIDS 36,000 [22,000-72,000] Adult HIV Prevalence 0.9% HIV Prevalence in Most-At-Risk...

CONCACAF Final Round Schedule for 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifying

U.S. Soccer (Free subscription) | yesterday

The U.S. will face Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Honduras in the Final Round of CONCACAF qualifying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

CONCACAF Final Round Qualifying Opponent Capsules

U.S. Soccer (Free subscription) | yesterday

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Trinidad & Tobago will face off against the United States in the Final Round of qualifying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Learn more about the USA's opponents.

191 endure 9 frustrating hours stuck on LA tarmac

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday

Nearly 200 passengers on a flight from El Salvador landed Monday in Los Angeles after spending nine hours aboard a grounded plane at a smaller airport as the airline and customs officials tried to work through apparent confusion.

• 191 endure 9 frustrating hours stuck on LA tarmac - Arizona Republic
• 191 Salvadoran travelers endure 9 hours on LA tarmac, 45 miles from destination - Star Tribune
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Illegal Immigrant Child Rapist

Reality Check (Free subscription) | yesterday

Bush: "[Illegals] do work in America that Americans won't do ." Illegal immigrant from El Salvador raped 10-year-old girl in Virginia .

191 endure 9 frustrating hours stuck on LA tarmac

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday

Nearly 200 passengers on a flight from El Salvador landed Monday in Los Angeles after spending nine hours aboard a grounded plane at a smaller airport as the airline and customs officials tried to work through apparent confusion.

Mashups in Miami Beach

Off Course-On Target (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008

I’m in Miami today finishing up my most recent set of business trips around the planet and catching my flight back to El Salvador. I had the great fortune of spending last night and this morning with a business colleague...

Stuck in a Plane for 9 Hours at Ontario Airport

LAist (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008

As of two minutes before 9 a.m., "passengers on a flight from El Salvador have been waiting on a Southern California regional airport's tarmac since about midnight after their plane was diverted from Los Angeles International Airport because of heavy fog," according to the Associated Press . The original crew is now over their maximum hours they can fly so a new crew is taking over.

Costa Rica sets their home base

HexagonalBlog (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008

According to the website FutboldeCostaRica.com, the Costa Rican federation will play three of their Hexagonal home matches on the artificial pitch at Saprissa stadium. Those three matches are against Honduras, El Salvador, and the USA. The announcement came from a FEDEFUTBOL official on local radio, but I haven't seen any updates on the federation website. There isn't any word as to where Costa Rica...

The Domino Effect

Key West Diary (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008

I remember President Reagan pointing out the proximity of San Salvador to Houston, closer he pointed out to a geography-phobic nation, than Houston is to DC, and thus he started on a ruinous war to destroy Sandinstas in Nicaragua supplying guerrillas in El Salvador, on the grounds that soon they might be knocking on our own southern border. It was a continuation of the "Domino Theory" of the projected...

The ongoing murder epidemic

Tim's El Salvador Blog (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008

On Tuesday, I pointed to a columnist writing about the need for prevention efforts to deal with Central America and El Salvador's high murder rates. The next day, a report was released by the Latin American Technological Information Network (RITLA), which gave the statistics for the murder rate among the population ages 15 - 24. As the BBC reports: Latin America has the highest murder rates in the...

War in Iraq ends for international forces

BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008

Deborah Haynes President Bush's “coalition of the willing” is set to all but disappear from Iraq by the end of the year, with 13 countries, including South Korea, Japan, Moldova and Tonga preparing to withdraw their few remaining troops. Britain, Australia, Romania, Estonia and El Salvador are the only nations, apart from the US, that plan to remain after a UN mandate authorising their presence expires...

El Salvador To Be Seen the World Over Once Again During E! Entertainment Television's Second Special Program

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008

SAN SALVADOREl SalvadorNov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second consecutive year, El Salvador will make known its tourist options through Sony Pictures, in a simultaneous world-level broadcast of the E! SPECIAL EL SALVADOR !IMPRESIONANTE! program.The presence of the team from the US firm was once again achieved through the promotional work carried out at international level by the Salvadorean Ministry...

• Entertainment - E! Entertainment TV to Air 'El Salvador' Worldwide - Good Read
• El Salvador To Be Seen the World Over Once Again During E! Entertainment Television's Second Special Program - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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Ching sends Houston into CONCACAF quarters

ESPN (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008

Brian Ching's first half strike sent America's Houston Dynamo into the CONCACAF Champions League quarter-finals after securing a 1-0 win over El Salvador's Luis Angel Firpo.