Tim's El Salvador Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
In 2009, both Mauricio Funes and Barack Obama assumed power following presidential campaigns featuring themes of hope and change. Now the two presidents face similar challenges, challenges which make it difficult to meet the high expectations their campaigns created. Both Funes and Obama are waging wars which they inherited from previous administrations. Obama has the wars in Afghanistan...
Tim's El Salvador Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The bloody statistics show the reasons for this week's action by Mauricio Funes: Murders Up 40% in El Salvador SAN SALVADOR – The number of murders in El Salvador between January 1 and November 1 stands at 3,673, more than in all of 2008 and 40 percent more than during the same period last year, the press reported Tuesday, citing official statistics. La Prensa Grafica newspaper...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... but Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes ...
L.A. Times - Latin America Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... had long ruled El Salvador peacefully transferred power to the left for the first time. President Mauricio Funes, the Farabundo Marti party's candidate, was educated by Jesuits at the University of Central America. To read the rest, click here . From our archives : An account of the priests' slaying in 1989 . Also, two pieces by Miller in the aftermath of the bloody civil war in 1992,...
The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
* El Salvador: Six Jesuit priests slain in an infamous 1989 massacre where remembered by Salvadorans including being posthumously granted the country’s highest honor by President Mauricio Funes. * Bolivia: With president Evo Morales apparently on his way to reelection the big race may be for control of Bolivia’s legislature . * Mexico: Could increased auto demand in the U.S....
Grist Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... receive their fair share of water through sensible, sustainable management. Earlier this year, Mauricio Funes of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)—the left political party that emerged from El Salvador’s civil war—took office. Expectations are high that he will correct centuries of policies of plunder that have impoverished El Salvador’s...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Banco Azteca Continues Solid Expansion, Inaugurates Operations In El Salvador-El Salvador President Mauricio Funes and Grupo Salinas Founder and Chairman Ricardo Salinas cut inaugural ribbon--Strong Banco Azteca growth perspectives are further strengthened--Helps stimulate consumption capacity and the well-being of thousands of Salvadorian families-MEXICO CITY, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Six Jesuit priests killed by the army during El Salvador's civil war two decades ago were decorated with the country's highest honor Monday.
Mauricio Funes, El Salvador's first leftist president, called the decorations an act of atonement for an atrocity during the 1980-1992 war between leftist rebels and a U.S.-backed right-wing government.
He presented...
Marc Cooper (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... to deal with this case in a serious manner. This week, however, the new left-0f-center president, Mauricio Funes , posthumously bestowed the highest national honor on the slain priests . The murders were a desperate response by a terrified regime faced with a "final offensive" by a leftist insurgency. The killing of the pacifist priests, the intellectual and moral heart of El Salvador,...
ProjectDisaster (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Link: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/09/el.salvador.mudslides/index.html (CNN) — “At least 124 people have died and dozens are missing after heavy rains triggered flooding and mudslides that buried communities and left a swath of destruction in El Salvador, officials said. President Mauricio Funes declared a national emergency and described the loss as incalculable....
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Salvadorian Interior Minister Humberto Centeno said on Monday that the government has sent 17 cubic tones of food in the last 10 hours for the victims of hurricane Ida. The aid was sent to communities in risk in the five most affected departments of the country. Centeno requested the victims to follow the indications given by the staff in charge of giving them the aid and confirmed that President Mauricio...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
At least 124 people have been killed in El Salvador by flooding and landslides following days of heavy rain, the government says. President Mauricio Funes has declared a national emergency, describing the damages as "incalculable". ...
Tim's El Salvador Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... huge swaths of crops during harvest season, the U.N. World Food Program said Tuesday. President Mauricio Funes told reporters the death toll had risen to at least 160, but lowered the number of homeless to 12,930. Dozens of people remained missing.... The WFP is helping feed 500 people in shelters in San Vicente, one of the worst-hit provinces, the U.N. agency said in a statement....
Tim's El Salvador Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... missing. At least 1500 houses were destroyed and some 10,000 forced from their homes. President Funes has declared a national state of emergency and declared that the damages in El Salvador are incalculable. He has called for help from neighboring countries and is seeking to use some funds designated for dealing with the economic crisis to be used for the present crisis. From the BBC Coverage...
E F pastor emeritus (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Twenty years after they were killed at Central American University in San Salvador, along with their housekeeper and her daughter, six Jesuit priests are being honoured by the Salvadoran government, the U.S. Congress and Jesuit institutions. Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes announced in early November that the priests would receive the National Order of Jose Matias Delgado awards,...
