Another Green World (Free subscription) | yesterday
... socialist Party based on the former guerilla movement the FMLN look likely to win the elections in El Salvador . During the 1980s the US poured cash into death squads in the country, the governing right wing ARENA killed with impunity. In 1979 the mass movement for social change in El Salvador was thwarted by an army coup d'etat that brought a vicious military junta to power. During...
Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
El Salvador15 May 2008Three gang members get 35 years for murdering freelance reporterA San Salvador court imposed 35-year prison sentences on 12 May on three members of a violent youth gang, José Alfredo Hernández, José Luis Mejía Martínez and Héctor Aldaberto Ortiz Mejía, for the murder of Salvador Sánchez, a freelance reporter who worked for Maya Visión, Radio Cadena Mi Gente and YSUCA. Sánchez...
Tim's El Salvador Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the wake of the devastating earthquake in China this week, Forbes reported on a study of earthquake vulnerability by GeoHazards International , an NGO working towards earthquake safety around the globe. Of the 20 cities worldwide ranked as most vulnerable to earthquakes, San Salvador was ranked number 7: The country's 220-square-mile capital city, home to 2.2 million people, has been the site of...
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Writes Robert Higgs: "Private-property anarchism is more popular than you would think in Latin America! El Diario de Hoy is El Salvador's top daily newspaper. And in Mexico City, we have this."...
Triangle Soccer Fanatics (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) announced the format of the 2008 CONCACAF Champions League today. 24 teams from Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Pamana, the Caribbean and the United States will take part in the tournament that will begin in late August and conclude in April of 2009. The...
Texas Golf (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Local qualifying is in full swing for the U.S. Open. Here are the results from recent Texas qualifiers, plus a few Texans who qualified to move on to sectionals from other locations. (Only qualifiers are listed.) El Paso - Painted Dunes Desert Golf Course Herbert Day Pan (a), El Salvador, 67 Chris Thomas, El Paso, 70 McKinney - Stonebridge Ranch Country Club Adam Rubinson, Fort Worth, 65 Clark...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Laura Hershberger attends a concert in the capital city of El Salvador in honor of the 33rd anniversary of the death of poet Roque Dalton and she post her favorite poem.
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Checking in from sweltering El Salvador, where the family news isn't so great, and where a brief trip to the beach for my baby girl led to having half my right leg fried by a jelly fish. So a little political talk will prove a nice distraction. Not much drama tonight, as no one expects Obama to be competitive in the state that includes the most hostile anti-Obama combination of demographics...
Global Features (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Hector Antonio Ventura, one of 14 people arrested during an anti-water privatization protest last year in the town of Suchitoto, El Salvador, was assassinated in his home on May 3. The assailants apparently stabbed him to death, while another man was attacked but survived. Organizations such as the legal group FESPAD have called for a full investigation into the death of the 19-year old Ventura,...
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The United Nations and other international agencies conducted three major post-conflict peacebuilding operations in central America in the 1990s: in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. Like the many other international peacebuilding missions that were deployed during the 1990s, the operations in Central America aimed to assist local actors in the implementation of peace settlements after civil...
U.S. Soccer (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Former U.S. Women's National Team forward Cindy Parlow and U.S. Soccer Women's National Staff Coach Jeff Pill head to El Salvador on Monday, May 12, as International Sports Envoys. Parlow and Pill will conduct clinics, reaching out to as many as 800 children in rural and urban areas.
NextBillion.net (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Guest blogger Blair Miller is a Manager of Business Development at Acumen Fund . She has lived and worked in Senegal, South Korea, India, and El Salvador. Her pursuit of a literature degree the University of Virginia opened her mind to the importance of social change and her MBA from Michigan gave her the practical skills to make that change a reality. By Blair Miller As I walked into Desmond...
ximblr.com (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Damning electronic evidence has been brought to light that incriminates the federal government in the neglect of a detainee in the months preceding his cancer death.Having fled his native El Salvador with his family at age 10, Francisco Castaneda, 36, was an illegal immigrant, though he had lived in Los Angeles for close to 25 [...]
BoRev.Net (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
> > Check out the next member of OPEC: Brazil! > > > Preview Latin America’s next insurgent president: Lula. > > > Meet Central America’s next leftist government: …El Salvador. > > > Check out the latest victim of independent scrutiny: The Magic Laptop!...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
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rupali | 12/31/2007
This report provides information on Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. Each country has its own chapter and covers the following subjects. Key Statistics Market and Industry Overviews Regulatory Environment Major Players (fixed and mobile) Infrastructure Mobile Voice and Data Markets Internet, VoIP Broadband (DSL, cable, wireless) Convergence Executive Summary...
