government of El Salvador

Cruz grew up during that traumatic time as the U.S-backed Salvadoran government fought leftist rebels. She remembers neighbors snatched from their homes by soldiers. She remembers her father instructing the family to hide from airstrikes and gunshots under tables and chairs he built with his own hands ...

The Salvadoran government has yet to prosecute anyone for Romero's murder, although the perpetrators, some already deceased, are widely known due to information gathered by a U.N. Truth Commission, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and a civil case in the U.S. Federal District Court ...

El Salvador has some of toughest abortion laws in the world, so strict that women have gone to jail for having miscarriages or stillbirths. But the country has recently begun commuting some of those sentences, prompting hopes the country is at a turning point. Ross Lord reports.

The Salvadoran government has yet to prosecute anyone for Romero's murder, although the perpetrators, some already deceased, are widely known due to information gathered by a U.N. Truth Commission, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and a civil case in the U.S. Federal District Court ...

In December 1980, nine months after Romero was killed, four American churchwomen were murdered by Salvadoran government forces because of their work with the poor. A month after that, two American advisers from the AFL-CIO were gunned down by a right-wing death squad for their work on land ...

Salvadoran government officials, however, have told the White House they are facing terrific levels of violence due to gangs that originated in the U.S. The country's murder rate is 109 per 100,000 people — one of the highest in the world — and the influx of tens of thousands of people at once would further ...

In 1982, Secretary of State George Shultz tapped him, along with two other lawyers at his private practice, to evaluate the government of El Salvador's response to the 1980 murders there of four American churchwomen. In 2007, Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on West to investigate the care being ...

In 1982, he was one of three lawyers tapped by Secretary of State George Shultz to evaluate the government of El Salvador's response to the 1980 murders there of four American churchwomen. In 2007, Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on West to investigate the care being delivered at Walter Reed ...

The government of El Salvador is implementing strategic actions that have brought about significant progress in the population's health and nutrition; however, the problem of malnutrition persists, with limited access to food in some municipalities and malnutrition caused by both deficit and excess.

According to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, “Salvadoran government's hostility towards abortion endangers the health and lives of women”, holding a complete ban on abortion, even in cases of rape. El Salvador, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic are ...

The administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan provided more than $4 billion in military and economic aid to the Salvadoran government in an effort to squash the leftist uprising. In a country marked by extreme economic inequality, the left-wing revolutionaries were fighting to overthrow ...

SAN SALVADOR – The Salvadoran government received “with joy” news of the impending canonization of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, murdered in 1980 by ... “The government of El Salvador expresses its joy over the Vatican's announcement approving the decree that will make the canonization of Monsignor Oscar ...

The Salvadoran government had also urged the U.S. to extend TPS protections. El Salvador Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez said before the decision was announced that ending TPS "would mean breaking up families that are in the U.S.". Martinez added that because the U.S. grants citizenship to those ...

The condemnation of global organizations is increasing external pressure on the Salvadoran government. But the real legwork is being done by local activists who are using advanced advocacy strategies to change both the laws and social norms from within the country. The combined external and internal ...

The condemnation of global organizations is increasing external pressure on the Salvadoran government. But the real legwork is being done by local activists who are using advanced advocacy strategies to change both the laws and social norms from within the country. The combined external and internal ...

Moody's Recognizes Economic Management of Salvadoran Government. Moody's Recognizes Economic Management of Salvadoran Government. Moody's Recognizes Economic Management of Salvadoran Government. 27 de febrero de 2018, 11:52San Salvador, Feb 27 (Prensa Latina) The recent ...

The Salvadoran government also paid an attorney to attend, said Salvadoran consulate Erika Arevalo. “This is specifically targeted to one immigrant community that has a tremendous need for staying legal in the country over the next 18 months,” Smith said, adding that he did not know the reason for the ...

The Salvadoran government underscored recent arrests of gang leaders and hits to their criminal organizations, as well as joint efforts with Honduras and Guatemala, collectively known as the Northern Triangle. In September, the U.S. Justice Department and authorities from El Salvador, Guatemala and ...

But he was also connected to the ranfla, communicating regularly with its top tier, passing messages and seemingly coordinating movement of the gang in the criminal realm, the Salvadoran government would later allege. Romero would argue that it was part of his work with calmados. Prosecutors say he ...

02:18:15 GOOFY talks about Case 640 (possibly from La Libertad program) 'paro' LUCAS, who has screwed himself over and ended up becoming an 'L' (informant) and screwed over a few or ours, and they want to 'T' (kill him on site),” the minutes of the meeting transcribed by the Salvadoran government ...

A year later, Salvadoran government soldiers, who had been trained by the U.S. military, massacred more than 800 villagers in El Mozote over three days. About half of the victims were children. Montenegro's father traveled the country as a minister and had brushes with the violence. "Numerous times they ...

Between 2013 and November 2016, the Salvadoran government opened 662 femicide cases, but only 5 percent reached a conviction. With pervasive gender inequality and widespread impunity, part of the reason for the epidemic of violence against women may simply be that assailants believe that they ...