Travelblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The need to see the Pacific again meant we treated ourselves to a beachfront room at La Guitarra resort at El Tunco Beach. OK treated means 60 a night but views like nothing else. To the left we can see the Bocana break and to the right Sunzal break where the ride is just the longest I have ever set eyes on. Pretty large so as we arrived on the weekend we are leaving it to the locals and hopin
Travelblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
After four nights in Antigua we were ready for a new country and to get back to the Pacific. We have had just the best time travelling across land but were really excited to be going back to the ocean and to one of the top surfing destinations in the world. Our transfer was uneventful and now we are starting to spot a Frontera town a mile off they all just have this look and you know you are abo
People Daily (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Nicaragua and El Salvador closed on Saturday their customs posts on the Honduras border and will open them again on Monday to avoid any possible incidents linked to Honduras' Sunday elections, Honduras police officers said. Nicaragua sealed its El Espino, Guasaule and Las Manos border posts beginning at 6 a.m. local time (1200 GMT), police spokesman Orlin Cerrato told media. El Salvador will do the...
Alienated Left (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
And the strange case of Bashir Noorzai The latest news from Afghanistan is that McChrystal's new counter-insurgency strategy involves embedding US Special Forces with local Afghan militias . For some reason McChrystal has made this a purely US operation, with ISAF and NATO having no part in it and being given little information on it. Is this an El Salvador death squads option for Afghanistan like...
The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to Sunday exit polls, Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo of the conservative party is poised to to win the presidency of Honduras with about 55% of the vote to Elvin Santos' 39%. Lobo lost the 2005 election to ousted president Manuel Zelaya. Press suggest that Sunday's poll day was mostly peaceful, with some reports of police repression of Zelaya supporters and other lowgrade violence in San...
Power Line (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to today's Wall Street Journal , 61 percent of Hondurans turned out to vote in the country's presidential election yesterday. By a wide margin Hondurans elected conservative rancher Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo to their presidency. The Journal reports: "The results gave Mr. Lobo 56% of the vote, well ahead of Liberal Party candidate Elvin Santos at 38%, confirming voters' expected...
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Interactive Journalism : Jose arrived in the U.S. seven years ago from El Salvador. He walked from his home country to Mexico City, and then to the border, where he crossed by himself. Jose is a day laborer. He works in construction whenever a contractor needs him, which means, in this economy, that he may stay without working for two weeks or more. Currently he lives in a rented room in the Bronx,...
VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | yesterday
Aren’t we constantly lectured that illegal aliens do the work Americans don’t do? And aren’t illegal aliens often hired to do lawn work for Americans? Here’s a horrific story about a trusting lady who hired illegal aliens to do her lawn work. She provided them work and was kind to them. The illegals (from El Salvador [...]
Latin America News Review (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
A US citizen demonstrates during a protest against the US support to Honduras's general elections in Tegucigalpa, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. About 4,6 million Hondurans are called to elect a new President in an election that is seen by many as a solution to the political crisis started by the June 28, 2009 military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Honduras - Report of 65-70%...
Alienated Left (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
“ Lack of money is the root of all evil ” George Bernard Shaw He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight” Sun Tzu, The Art of War There's a lot of talk of “a war for hearts and minds”, as there was in the Vietnam war, but, as in Vietnam and El Salvador, far more money and effort is being spent blowing peoples’ hearts and minds out of their bodies and...
Tim's El Salvador Blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
As readers of this blog know, legal proceedings are currently advancing in Spain against participants in the 1989 murders of the six Jesuits. In that proceeding, documents from the US government files, some of which were previously classified, are being submitted to the Spanish court. The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has examined those documents, and reports that the documents have proof that the US...
Latin America News Review (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya reads a letter he wrote to US President Barack Obama, in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) TOP STORY - Obama, Honduras and Latin America (Two Weeks Notice) Bolivia - UN condemns political violence in Bolivian electoral campaign (Xinhua) Colombia - Government using Venezuela spat to bolster popularity: Piedad...
taxmanblog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Ruben Navarrette gets it........ Competition. A simple concept and a beneficial one. It makes us better by forcing us to work harder. Sadly, it's also an idea that is going out of style in a society where students expect to get good grades just for showing up, where everyone gets a ribbon no matter where they finish, and where parents scheme to get their kids into college by lobbying state legislatures...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Carrie Rodriguez: 2009-11-17, Cleveland [mp3,ogg,flac] "Seven Angels on a Bicycle" [mp3] Carrie Rodriguez: 2008-09-08, Solana Beach [mp3,ogg,flac] "El Salvador" [mp3] other Carrie Rodriguez posts at Largehearted Boy Explosions in the Sky: 2008-05-25, Vienna [mp3,ogg,flac]...
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
By Edgardo Ayala - IPSRepublished permission Inter Press Service (IPS ) copyright Inter Press Service (IPS)http://www.ipsnewsasia.net/ and http://www.ipsnews.net/ SAN SALVADOR, Nov 27 (IPS) - Thousands of pages of declassified U.S. documents shedding light on the 1989 murders of six prominent Jesuit clerics, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter in El Salvador could give a new twist to
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