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PrecisionVaccinations
April 20, 2018
April 19th, 2018 – After weeks of debate, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that Dengvaxia, a new vaccine against the dengue virus, should only be administered to individuals who have been confirmed to have the infection, reported Reuters. Following a 2-day meeting in Switzerland,Ãâà...
teleSUR English
April 20, 2018
About 500 migrants – mainly from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador – boarded La Bestia, as the freight train is known to those who ride its rooftop in order to ease the torturous journey to the U.S. border. They hopped the train early Thursday and are riding atop the freight cars hoping to reach theÃâà...
UC Merced University News
April 11, 2018
UC Merced graduate student Danielle Bermudez will spend the next 10 months in El Salvador, conducting research and serving as a cultural ... award and represent UC Merced,” said Bermudez, a fifth-year Interdisciplinary Humanities Ph.D. candidate in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts.
Irish Times
April 11, 2018
Wright argued that resistance to changing the law “responds to a violent society, to machismo, to poverty”, rather than to the conservatism of Salvadoran society. “As a politician the easy way out is to say, 'I'm pro-life and I'm against abortion,'” he said. “It's a way of not delving deeper into the issues that areÃâà...
Merced Sun-Star
April 10, 2018
UC Merced Interdisciplinary Humanities Ph.D. candidate Danielle Bermudez will spend the next 10 months in El Salvador, conducting research and serving as a cultural ambassador for the campus as a Fulbright U.S. Student Researcher. She is the campus's first student winner of the Fulbright U.S. StudentÃâà...
NACLA
March 21, 2018
Copies of the voting center records and accompanying tallies of party votes and candidate rankings are all distributed to the Attorney General's Office, participating political parties, and the Human Rights Ombudsman, and available on the TSE website for the public to examine. Nevertheless, cries ofÃâà...
MyAJC
March 12, 2018
One of the women said that her parents had come to the United States illegally from El Salvador and that she was born a short time later. ... Karen Swallow Prior, a professor at Liberty University who opposed Trump and voted for a third-party candidate, said, “Now that Trump is in office and we areÃâà...
New York Times
March 11, 2018
One of the women said that her parents had come to the United States illegally from El Salvador and that she was born a short time later. ... Karen Swallow Prior, a professor at Liberty University who opposed Mr. Trump and voted for a third-party candidate, said, “Now that Trump is in office and we areÃâà...
AOL
March 7, 2018
SACRAMENTO, March 7 (Reuters) - Attorney General Jeff Sessions, intensifying the Trump administration's confrontation with the most populous U.S. state, accused California on Wednesday of obstructing federal immigration enforcement efforts and vowed to stop the state's defiance. Sessions made theÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
March 7, 2018
While railing against “totalitarian ideologies” that are “anti-empirical” and “deny that there is any sort of objective truth,” she mocked “an earnest young man” who had told her that the regime in El Salvador was responsible for “gross violations of human rights” and therefore “unworthy of US support”: “The factÃâà...
High Country News
March 7, 2018
The president implicitly linked all young, brown working-class men to La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), a violent criminal gang started by Salvadoran immigrants in Los ... MS-13's brutality is undeniable, as is the long history of violence in Honduras and El Salvador, where many gang members come from.
thejournal.ie
March 7, 2018
Pope Francis signed decrees giving the go-ahead for the honours on the basis of miracles attributed to each candidate, the Holy See said in a statement. The Pope put ... Romero, murdered in 1980, was beatified in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador in Central America, in front of 200,000 worshippers.
Vox
February 26, 2018
To be sure, most MS-13 gang members in El Salvador were not deportees — according to one 1996 survey, only 16 percent of Salvadoran gang members had been to the US, and 88 percent of them had joined the gang in El Salvador .... As a candidate, Trump didn't talk much about MS-13 in particular.
Axios
February 23, 2018
President Trump blasted El Salvador and Mexico in a morning tweet by claiming that they allow deported MS-13 gang members to "come back in [to the ... Trump held that opinion of Saccone before leaving for the rally, and I've not been able to establish whether his time on the ground with the candidate changed his mind.
Prensa Latina
February 21, 2018
San Salvador, Feb 21 (Prensa Latina) There is great evidence of the participation of a candidate of Salvadoran rightwing political party ARENA with local gangs in ... campaign event, days before the mega-operation that dismantled a network of money laundering and financing of the MS-13 in six departments of El Salvador.
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
El Salvador's right-wing opposition party appeared headed for victory Monday in legislative and municipal elections, dealing a blow to leftist President Salvador Sanchez ... The preliminary returns showed its candidate for mayor of San Salvador, Ernesto Muyshondt, defeating the FMLN's Jackeline Rivera.
NACLA
December 31, 1999
An onslaught of conservative rulings by the Supreme Court in El Salvador threatens the 2018 mid-term elections—and the very fabric of the nation's post-conflict institutions. ... In 2015, the FMLN with rising star Nayib Bukele as its mayoral candidate won the city back from ARENA. Bukele, a youngÃâà...
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