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Lethbridge Herald
March 29, 2018
In little more than a week, they built secure homes for 27 impoverished families in El Salvador. “We wanted to build more homes than any other group had done in one week,” says Dave Bodell. But before doing that, they had to raise financial support in Lethbridge. “We successfully fundraised over $75,000ÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
March 29, 2018
Like many traditions in El Salvador and throughout Latin America, the holiday is a result of the mixing of Catholic and indigenous beliefs; this occurred with the arrival of the Spanish and their desire to convert the native people to Catholicism by introducing their religion in ways that would seem familiar.
The Pilot
March 29, 2018
Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San Salvador, El Salvador, takes a selfie with young people March 16 during the 2018 Religious Education Congress at the Anaheim (Calif.) Convention Center. He concelebrated a mass and gave two talks during the March 16-18 congress, sponsored by theÃÂ ...
Inter Press Service
March 28, 2018
Since 1998 under Article 133 of our Penal Code abortion has been completely illegal in El Salvador in all circumstances. Women have been sentenced to up to eight years in more typical cases, but if a judge decides that the abortion was in fact an “aggravated homicide” then a much higher sentence – upÃÂ ...
International Monetary Fund
March 27, 2018
... the 2018 Article IV consultation [1] and held productive discussions with the Salvadoran authorities, parliamentarians, business community, and social partners. The consultation was based on revised National Accounts statistics. El Salvador has suffered from low growth, low investment, high public debt,ÃÂ ...
MPNnow.com
March 26, 2018
Edgar Cordova, who was born in El Salvador and became an American citizen, presented a program on his background and life experiences at a recent dinner meeting of Victor-Farmington Rotary Club. Cordova grew up on a rural farm in El Salvador at a time when civil war was happening in the CentralÃÂ ...
National Catholic Reporter
March 26, 2018
Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San Salvador, El Salvador, takes a selfie with young people March 16 during the 2018 Religious Education Congress at the Anaheim (Calif.) Convention Center. He concelebrated a mass and gave two talks during the March 16-18 congress, sponsored by theÃÂ ...
Renewables Now
March 22, 2018
March 22 (Renewables Now) - AES El Salvador announced on Wednesday it will invest USD 33.1 million (EUR 26.8m) to improve its power distribution system in the country. The local unit of AES Corporation (NYSE:AES), will use its distribution companies -- CAESS, CLESA, EEO and DEUSEM -- toÃÂ ...
Business News Americas
March 22, 2018
A slew of power plants for a combined 650MW are scheduled to enter service in El Salvador in the near and ... Subscriber-Only Content. BNamericas develops thousands of news articles, analyses and features every month, always concentrating on how to make or save money in Latin American business.
Weekly News Journal
March 22, 2018
(BPT) - El Salvador, Central America's smallest country, attracts a wide array of intrepid travelers who come to experience its vibrant culture and diverse outdoor activities. From its rich Maya history, to its volcanic beauty and generations-old artisan heritage, El Salvador provides plenty for travelers to exploreÃÂ ...
NUVO
March 21, 2018
With that said, many people will lump pupusas under the category of Mexican food, but pupusas are Salvadoran. They were first created by one of the earliest civilizations in El Salvador—the Pipil—and they have been eaten there for centuries. They became El Salvador's national dish decades ago.
Duke Today
March 21, 2018
Assassination 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. Nearly four decades later, Romero's killers remain free, but Eisenbrandt's bookÃÂ ...
NACLA
March 21, 2018
In the wake of an electoral rout and growing internal divisions, El Salvador's Left is facing its starkest crisis in decades. ..... At its best, the FMLN is the “political instrument for the struggle of the Salvadoran people,” a vehicle for the demands of the labor unions, peasant cooperatives, student organizations,ÃÂ ...
Lonoke News
March 20, 2018
Last fall, ASU-Beebe's Global Awareness Committee hosted four El Salvadoran students from UNICAES to study on the ASU-Beebe campus. The four students were co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador. During this year's field trip, ASU-Beebe's group was joined by Tim Christmann, professorÃÂ ...
Houston Public Media
March 20, 2018
Salvadoran nationals who live in Houston were filling out and submitting paperwork to re-register as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients on Monday, since it was the deadline set by the government, but they are also considering other options to stay in the United States after the status is terminatedÃÂ ...
Business News Americas
March 20, 2018
Five of El Salvador's seven cabinet ministers announced their resignation Sunday, amid the ongoing fallout from the March 4 congressional elections, ... Subscriber-Only Content. BNamericas develops thousands of news articles, analyses and features every month, always concentrating on how to make orÃÂ ...
CNNMoney
March 20, 2018
El Salvador may be the first country to have a community of 3D-printed homes. A nonprofit called New Story is raising $1 million to bring more than 100 3D-printed homes to the country over the next two years. The organization funds homes for families in need and people displaced by natural disasters.
Voice of America
March 20, 2018
El Salvador, a Central American country, wrestles with one of the region's biggest challenges: the rise of criminal gangs like MS-13. Gangs test the government's policies on policing, detention and crime-prevention initiatives. Different camps debate whether to invest more in strong-hand punitiveÃÂ ...
Angelus News
March 19, 2018
Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez: This question is so important that we [the bishops of El Salvador] discussed it with the pope when we met with him last March because there was an attitude that his canonization was like having won the lottery. But this is a gift from God, and now this gift has to be merited.
NPR
March 18, 2018
El Salvador has one of the highest murder rates in the world, much of it gang-related. The group's MS-13 and Barrio 18 have some 70,000 members in Central America. El Salvador's government has struggled for solutions, cracking down on gangs and also negotiating with them. But nothing has seemed toÃÂ ...
Arizona Daily Star
March 7, 2018
The international criminal group originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s and later spread to other parts of the U.S., Mexico and especially Central America as members were deported from the U.S. for committing felonies. Most members are of Central American origin, principally from El Salvador. Respond:ÃÂ ...
KOAT Albuquerque
March 7, 2018
March is all about celebrating womanhood, and throughout the month we'll be honoring influential women in history whose inspirational stories helped pave the way for female empowerment and progress. These advocates and pioneers have contributed incredible things to not only women's history, but toÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
March 7, 2018
It was celebrated in El Salvador, where the gulf between the rich and the poor remains as wide as ever, and where Romero's unflinching advocacy for the ... The miracle that cleared the way for Romero's sainthood concerned the medically inexplicable cure of a pregnant, terminally ill Salvadoran womanÃÂ ...
PanAm Post
March 6, 2018
President Sanchez Ceren's party suffered a stinging defeat in recent El Salvador elections (PanAm Post). As the polls predicted, the Salvadorian electorate punished the ruling Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) party, granting an important victory to the opposition, the ARENA party, andÃÂ ...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Newsroom
March 6, 2018
Elmer Edrulfo Rios-Mancia, 37, is wanted in El Salvador for aggravated homicide and membership to an illicit group. Rios departed the United States on Friday from Alexandria International Airport in Louisiana under escort by ERO deportation officers. He was transferred to El Salvadoran law enforcementÃÂ ...
Houstonia Magazine
March 5, 2018
Flores knows El Salvador's poverty, crime, and violence are even worse than what he fled when the nation was embroiled in a brutal civil war. Then, a young Salvadoran had two options: fight for the guerillas against the government, or fight for the government against the guerillas. Boys were pulled fromÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
March 4, 2018
In 2016, 524 women in El Salvador—one in every 5,000—were killed, with most of them under the age of 30. From the beginning of 2017 through October, there were nearly 2,000 sexual assaults, with about 80 percent of victims 17 or younger, according to the Salvadoran Women's Organization for Peace.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Newsroom
December 31, 1999
He was transferred to El Salvadoran law enforcement authorities upon his arrival in San Salvador, El Salvador. ICE offices in El Salvador and ERO's Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement (SAFE) taskforce provided key assistance to the Washington field office ahead of Gomez's arrest and subsequentÃÂ ...
National Catholic Reporter
February 12, 2018
Salvadorans in the U.S. and immigration rights activists counter that crime, corruption, drug cartels and poverty plague El Salvador. As evidence of El Salvadoran instability, activists point to the tens of thousands of undocumented adolescents and children who have arrived at the U.S. border, fleeing gangÃÂ ...
Snopes.com
February 12, 2018
The late 1970s marked the early stages of immigration from El Salvador to Los Angeles, and what became Mara Salvatrucha or MS (the “13” was adopted as part of the title later) formed because new Salvadoran immigrants were being marginalized and discriminated against by the surrounding,ÃÂ ...
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
February 11, 2018
Janet Hoffman is one of the chosen speakers for the Emmanuel United Methodist Church Lenten Luncheon Series this year, and her speech will focus on her 2014 trip to El Salvador. While there, she used her skills as a nurse to help administer medical exams. Hoffman, who is now retired but still has anÃÂ ...
KQED
February 10, 2018
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 ...
Dallas News (blog)
February 9, 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 ...
ABC News
February 4, 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 deportation. Another 200,000 people could be forced to return there because President Donald Trump's administration announced it would endÃÂ ...
Focus Taiwan News Channel
February 3, 2018
3 (CNA) Four free trade related resolutions signed between Taiwan and El Salvador went into effect on Saturday, allowing annual reductions in tariffs on ... in tariffs on aloe vera juice, jello and tape from Taiwan, as well as dried pineapple, dried mango, dried plantain and dried banana from El Salvador.
The Almanac
February 3, 2018
Access to the Internet, as you might imagine, is somewhat limited in El Salvador. And so a group of John Carroll University students visiting the tiny Central American nation in early January were lacking their usual lines of communication, and as such were unaware of the latest happenings back home.
U.S. News & World Report
February 2, 2018
The Trump administration's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for natural-disaster refugees from El Salvador, first granted in the wake of two ... Meanwhile, the 200,000 Salvadoran refugees who were granted U.S. Temporary Protected Status – some of whom have been living in the U.S. for nearlyÃÂ ...
ABC News
February 1, 2018
El Salvador's Supreme Court is putting the brakes on a constitutional change that would bar same-sex marriage. The ruling blocks lawmakers from ratifying the measure, which also would constitutionally recognize matrimony as being between a man and a woman "born that way" and prohibit same-sexÃÂ ...
Dialogo Americas (blog)
January 31, 2018
Members of the Salvadoran Armed Force's Special Counter-terrorism Command deploy in two crime-fighting task forces. ... In 2015, El Salvador's Constitutional Division of the Supreme Court designated both gangs as terrorist groups, as they “carry out systematic attacks against the lives, security, andÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
January 31, 2018
Members of Mara Salvatrucha listen to a mass in Ciudad Barrios, San Salvador, El Salvador. Edgar Romero/DPA/PA Images,. Todos los derechos reservados. Leaving behind the exhaust pipes hubbub of Great San Salvador, which is the high-sounding name our driver uses to refer to the metropolitan areaÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
January 30, 2018
But Salvadorans in the U.S. point to El Salvador's crushing poverty and high crime rate, and a travel advisory issued by the U.S. State Department this month states: "Reconsider travel to El Salvador due to crime. Violent crime, such as murder, assault, rape, and armed robbery, is common. Gang activityÃÂ ...
Aspen Times
January 29, 2018
Over the past decade working together, emergency room tech Juan Osorio and nurse Chris Smith courted the possibility of opening up a surf B&B in the Central American country of El Salvador, one known more for its violence and poverty than its tourism. But Osorio, an American who grew up in ElÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 28, 2018
El Salvador was first added to the list in the 1980s as a result of a bloody civil war that lasted 12 years and left 75,000 dead. In 2001, when a pair of earthquakes badly impaired the country's infrastructure, these protections were renewed. In the books below, two writers captured life during the civil war, whileÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 18, 2018
Contrary to what President Trump might think, the Salvadoran community is highly productive. According to the Center for Migration Studies, a think tank in New York affiliated with a Catholic group, the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles, 88 percent of Salvadorans participate in the labor forceÃÂ ...
Vermont Public Radio
January 18, 2018
Some of those people have been calling the U.S. home for a decade, and the each have their own stories about why they were compelled to leave El Salvador and try to start a new life in America. Journalist and author Lauren Markham told the story of two Salvadoran immigrants. Markham followed twinÃÂ ...
Lexology
January 18, 2018
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador on September 9, 2019. Current Salvadoran TPS beneficiaries will have 60 days to request a final 18-month extension of status and work authorization while they seek another immigration status orÃÂ ...
Splinter (blog)
January 18, 2018
“The kingdom of Qatar ... has held out the possibility of an agreement with El Salvador whereby Salvadoran workers could be brought across in phases (to Qatar),” Chicas told reporters. After an unspecified period, the Salvadorans would return home, Chicas added, without saying how many workers theÃÂ ...
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 ...
OCRegister
January 17, 2018
In addition, more than 50,000 children in California were born in the U.S. but have Salvadoran parents who now face deportation due to losing their temporary protected status, according to the Center for American Progress. Those children will either have to return to El Salvador with their parents, stay in theÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
January 17, 2018
El Salvador is seeking to reach an agreement with Qatar to allow Salvadoran migrants who are forced to leave the United States to work temporarily in the Gulf country, a spokesperson for the Salvadoran presidency said on Tuesday. Last week, US President Donald Trump's administration said that as ofÃÂ ...
