updated Mon. April 30, 2018
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The Nevada Independent
April 30, 2018
The Oberlin Review
April 28, 2018
He is the author of After the Revolution: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala and The Sandinista Legacy: Lessons from a ... What is important to recognize is that women played an important role in the military struggles that started in the 1960s and went -- in the case ...
The Pilot
April 20, 2018
Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez and Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas, both of El Salvador, and Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski participate in a discussion about El Salvador's root causes of poverty, violence and migration at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington April 13.
America Magazine
April 20, 2018
Clare Champion
April 14, 2018
He had a distinguished army career and, between the army and the UN, he worked abroad in over 20 countries. As a young man, he was with the UN in ... They had 300 military officer observers working in five countries, including Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. He was also in South Africa for theÃÂ ...
AllGov
April 13, 2018
His first posting was in El Salvador. In February 1989, Macmanus, as the U.S. embassy's spokesman, defended the Reagan administration's aid to the Salvadoran government by claiming that the government and the Salvadoran military had not been involved in death squad activity for the previous sevenÃÂ ...
The Catholic Register
April 6, 2018
The Salvadoran martyr's cause for sainthood was stalled for years at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith until Pope Francis was elected in 2013. ... On March 24, 1980, a death squad with connections to El Salvador's military government shot Romero through the open door of a hospital chapelÃÂ ...
Equal Times
April 3, 2018
There is one name that is always attached to the Salvadorian cultural movement of the last three decades: Bea. On 6 December 1991, shortly before the signing of the peace agreements putting an end to the Civil War that broke out in 1979, Beatriz Alcaine, inaugurated La Luna Casa y Arte, a spaceÃÂ ...
International Policy Digest
March 31, 2018
The training programs carried out are similarly varied, like for example: aircraft electrician and avionic mechanic programs with Colombia; basic army intelligence and naval intelligence courses with the Dominican Republic; NCO professional development training with El Salvador; and courses onÃÂ ...
The Philadelphia Tribune
March 31, 2018
Togo D. West Jr., who as secretary of the Army in the 1990s oversaw its wrenching post-Gulf War conversion to a truncated peacetime fighting force that ... White House behind the scenes, with only modest success, to expand spending on medical care and other benefits for former members of the military.
Tehachapi News
March 24, 2018
Arturo and Alcira Revelo, Tehachapi residents, look at their scrapbook of memories of El Salvador and also recall their 58 years of marriage. ... In an open letter to Jimmy Carter, the archbishop pleaded for the U.S. to stop sending military "advisors" to help the Salvadoran army fight its dirty war as well as cutÃÂ ...
The Conversation US
March 24, 2018
Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI are expected be canonized together during the Synod of Bishops in October 2018 in Rome. ... 1977, the Jesuit priest Rutilio Grande – Romero's friend and a leading figure of El Salvador's progressive Catholics – was killed by a military death squad.
WTOP
March 23, 2018
On March 12, 1977, the Jesuit priest Rutilio Grande – Romero's friend and a leading figure of El Salvador's progressive Catholics – was killed by a military death squad. The incident seems to have triggered something in the once-conservative Romero. He began boycotting government ceremonies, sayingÃÂ ...
Davis Enterprise
March 22, 2018
She saw dead bodies in the street on her way to the University of El Salvador, where she studied to become a nurse's assistant. Friends and family members were murdered. There were bullet holes in her house. The U.S. sent millions of dollars in economic and military aid to help the Salvadoran military fight a civil warÃÂ ...
Duke Today
March 22, 2018
Three Decades Later, an Assassination of an Archbishop Continues to Haunt El Salvador ... of a Saint traces the story of how an international team of lawyers, private investigators and human-rights experts fought to bring justice for the archbishop, killed by members of an El Salvadoran death squad. NearlyÃÂ ...
Dialogo Americas (blog)
March 15, 2018
U.S. Army South (ARSOUTH) recently hosted a delegation from the Salvadoran Armed Force (FAES, in Spanish) for a series of staff talk steering committee meetings. The delegation from El Salvador was led by Salvadoran Army Colonel Angel Lima. These annual bilateral talks allow military planners toÃÂ ...
The Auburn Plainsman
March 8, 2018
The administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan provided more than $4 billion in military and economic aid to the Salvadoran government in ... Conflicting attachments to her father and her native country swarmed Andrea's mind just as the Lempa River, which separates El Salvador fromÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
March 7, 2018
In El Salvador, which has suffered high levels of violence, and where a wide gap remains between rich and poor, Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez, a friend of Romero, called the news "a gift for the country and a promise that we can find a way out of so much violence, out of so much suffering.".
LSE Latin America and Caribbean (blog)
March 1, 2018
El Salvador's legislative and municipal elections on Sunday, 4 March, 2018, kick off an election cycle that will stretch through to next year's presidential ballot. A desperate security situation, threats to Salvadoran migrants in the US, and a growing generation gap in traditional parties could mean a bumpyÃÂ ...
The Republic
March 1, 2018
The country's military has so far refused to open its archives from that period to allow an investigation into the whereabouts of children separated from their families during combat between guerrillas and government forces. In a decision released in January, El Salvador's Supreme Court backed the demandÃÂ ...
Jax Air News
February 28, 2018
The "Mad Foxes" of Patrol Squadron 5 were honored to host the leadership of the New Hampshire Army National Guard, Brig. Gen. ... Like many cities in the United States that have established foreign counterparts, Concord, New Hampshire has long been a sister city to Agua Caliente, El Salvador.
Morung Express
February 28, 2018
... El Salvador's Supreme Court backed the demand of Nicolasa Rivas for a probe into the disappearances of her daughters, Gladys Suleyma and Norma Climaco Rivas, who were 6 and 7 years old when they went missing in San Vicente province in 1982. Rivas blames the military for taking her daughters.
Aljazeera.com
February 27, 2018
No official reason has been given for the overhaul, but it comes as Saudi Arabia faces growing criticism against the military coalition it leads in the Yemen war. The developments also come amid a series of changes led by country's 32-year-old Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman (also known as MBS),ÃÂ ...
C4ISRNet
December 31, 1999
And the Army's asking for 1084 drones as part of the Soldier-Borne Sensor program, which wants to put palm-sized quadcopters at the disposal of infantry. Altogether, that's over 2,000 quadcopters of various models. Excluding the ones requested by SOCOM, which are grouped together with multipleÃÂ ...
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
December 31, 1999
One of the most reviled figures from the civil war era in El Salvador, and a close ally of the United States, was a colonel and ex-minister of defense by the name ... Carranza wasn't the only ex-Salvadoran military man to settle in the U.S. Two generals, who'd served as defense ministers, got green cards andÃÂ ...
Truth-Out
February 15, 2018
We came to this country at the urgent request of SHARE El Salvador, a humanitarian aid organization with a long history of solidarity work in Central America. Police and military repression in Honduras since the overtly fraudulent elections in November 2017 has been getting worse, with over thirty peopleÃÂ ...
Dallas News (blog)
February 8, 2018
In 1997, Maria Christina Chicas held her grandaughter, Mirllama Clara Luz, 1, during a candlelight vigil on All Soul's Day at El Mozote, El Salvador, site of a massacre of an entire village by Salvadoran Army soldiers in 1981 during the guerilla war. She lost three sisters and a borther and nine of theirÃÂ ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
February 5, 2018
That's why Green, a Houston Democrat, flew to El Salvador on Saturday to meet with Escobar in the hopes it will call attention to the plight of families separated by ..... China condemns the U.S. operations as "reckless" provocations that raise the risk of military confrontation between the two powers.
vtdigger.org
February 2, 2018
“Thanks to the Olmsted Foundation's focus on internationalizing American military officers, this grant allows Norwich's future leaders an immeasurable ... from this grant and have travelled to: Tanzania, Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Croatia, Senegal, El Salvador, Chile, Turkey, Georgia and Israel.
The Nation.
February 2, 2018
While police and military in El Salvador and Honduras have been implicated and prosecuted for death-squad killings of hundreds of men between the ages of Herrera and Alvaro, Nicaragua's death squads disappeared decades ago. Nicaragua's unusual peace juts out of the chronically violent CentralÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
January 30, 2018
As part of the field research for an International Crisis Group (ICG) report on security policies in El Salvador, the aim of our visit is to get to know ... a few months ago, a group of police and military, the hybrid formula that has now become the norm in all anti-gang operations in El Salvador, abused him right atÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
January 24, 2018
That's when the Trump administration announced the revocation of Temporary Protected Status, effective September 2019, for 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants who have not attained permanent ... They fled civil warfare in the 1980s, when El Salvador's brutal military regime received extensive U.S. support.
The Atlantic
January 20, 2018
Then, a few days later, during a White House meeting on immigration policy, the president characterized places like El Salvador, along with Haiti, ... experts are still digging up bodies—of women, children, and old men who were murdered by the Salvadoran army during an operation in December 1981.
New York Times
January 18, 2018
President Trump didn't include El Salvador on his vulgar list of deplorables. But his forthcoming ... But the population of San Salvador, El Salvador's capital, is only 280,000. Money sent home by ... Contrary to what President Trump might think, the Salvadoran community is highly productive. According to theÃÂ ...
NACLA
January 18, 2018
U.S. policies helped create gang culture in El Salvador, a country with no previous history of U.S.-style gangs and gang warfare. ... Like the weapons and training used by the Salvadoran military, the gangs themselves were also born in the United States, specifically Los Angeles' Pico Union neighborhood.
Chicago Tribune
January 18, 2018
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are determined to fulfill the campaign promises that swept them to power in 2016, including boosting military spending and scaling back immigration. Democrats have been emboldened by Trump's unpopularity and a surge of grass-roots activism toÃÂ ...
Titansonline.com
January 18, 2018
The Tennessee Titans Cheerleaders are partnering with ProTour Productions for the sixth consecutive year to provide the United States Military with both ... be sending over 25 cheerleaders and mascots to Australia, Singapore/Diego Garcia, Honduras/Greenland/El Salvador, Bahamas/Curacao/Cuba andÃÂ ...
Business Insider
January 18, 2018
Many of the conditions created by the 2001 earthquake that first prompted the TPS designation for immigrants from El Salvador haven't really improved, Allison said. El Salvador military police Salvadoran policemen arrest two suspected gang members during an anti-gang search operation in San Salvador,ÃÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
January 16, 2018
Javier Zamora, a poet and Salvadoran immigrant who resides in Northern California, was a teenager at the time. While he and his parents ... But Zamora and his family's future is uncertain now that the Trump administration said TPS for El Salvador will end in September 2019. It was always a fear, saidÃÂ ...
Snopes.com
January 13, 2018
Emmanuel Mensah was a United States Army soldier and immigrant from Ghana who died saving his neighbors' lives during the 2017 Bronx fire. ... highest traditions of military heroism and selfless service and reflect great credit upon himself, the New York Army National Guard and the United States Army.
KTVU San Francisco
January 13, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - President Trump's vulgar remarks regarding people who hail from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries have sparked furor and ... Artiga is a retired first responder and former Army veteran who calls Trump ignorant and believes his comments show disregard for the human spirit.
Jacobin magazine
January 13, 2018
After a final eighteen-month extension, Salvadoran Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders will join the ranks of over a million US residents newly ... DHS's decision came nearly seventeen years to the day after the first of two massive earthquakes devastated El Salvador, prompting US officials to grantÃÂ ...
CNN
January 12, 2018
"You'd have to know nothing about WHY Haiti is poor (or El Salvador in kind), and WHY the United States (and Norway) are wealthy," Katz said in a widely-shared Twitter thread. "But far worse than that, you'd ... line of $2.41 per day. The US has a long history of military and political intervention in Haiti.
International Policy Digest
January 11, 2018
The “death squad” indiscriminately slaughtered every member of the village, raped the young girls, and set fire to their homes. ... a response to the government-sanctioned violence and the military's selective protection for the wealthy elite who sought to maintain socio-economic inequalities in El Salvador.
The Intercept
January 8, 2018
In the 1980s, for instance, the U.S. backed the Salvadoran military and its death squads in a brutal counterinsurgency campaign that left tens of thousands of people dead or disappeared. The civil war helped fuel an exodus of refugees to the U.S., with many Salvadorans landing in cities like Los AngelesÃÂ ...
The Hill
January 5, 2018
When I was 13, my family sent me to the United States undocumented, so that I would not be killed in the bloody civil war raging in El Salvador. ... Hondurans and many other temporary worker status recipients have built thriving lives here, buying homes, starting businesses, serving in the military andÃÂ ...
KQED
December 31, 1999
The Trump administration's recent decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador puts 200,000 Salvadorans at risk of deportation. California has the largest Salvadoran population in the United States. And even before the end of TPS, many Salvadorans with roots in California had beenÃÂ ...
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
December 31, 1999
Question: What exactly did you do during your trip to El Salvador? Answer: We went there through our church, Trinity Episcopal Church in ... If there was military necessary, they were there because they were there before we got there. We didn't have any issues with anybody. It was a very beautiful countryÃÂ ...
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