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A recently returned delegation to El Salvador has published a report on human rights abuses, the potential for fraud and intervention in the 2009 Salvadoran elections, and the role that the US government has played in the cited injustices. The delegation was organized by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) and was made up of 17 US citizens and residents. The introduction...
Hola todosIt's a humid afternoon here in Santa Ana and the heavens have well and truly opened They say the rain is set in for a few more days 'la temporada' as they call it. Everything is going really well here in El Salvador. For the past week we have been celebrating the Week of the Child in the two projects organising different activities which inform the children about their rights from s
Matchday 4 concludes tonight with two late matches. Action starts in about 45 minutes.(Grp A) Saprissa - DC United 1900(Grp B) Firpo - UNAM 1900Commentaries after the jump. 1827: LA Firpo have three players in the El Salvador national team (Gómez, Rivas, and Monteagudo), while UNAM have no players represented in the Mexican national team, although four players have been called up in the past 12 months...
Shocking news: the US is now the world's #40 banking power. Behind nearly everyone, even El Salvador? Wow! Also, Nikkei News shoots across the US banking prow: they are considering dropping the US dollar as their trade currency!!!! OH MY...
I made a passing reference to this the other day, but now it's really starting to bug me. The McCain-Palin street rallies really are beginning to take on many of the chilling aspects of what I witnessed from the proto-fascist right-wing in El Salvador twenty years ago. It was always quite a bladder-constricting experience to be [...]
NEWS: Dynamo fans should tune in to tonight's CONCACAF Champions League Group B showdown between co-leader UNAM Pumas and Luis Angel Firpo in El Salvador. It will be interesting because unlike it did against the Dynamo last week, UNAM plans...
Britain's banking system is less financially sound than banks in Senegal, Botswana or El Salvador, according a survey of business opinion carried out for the World Economic Forum.
A new article by Raúl Gutiérrez of IPS focuses anew on how rising food costs have led to an increase in poverty in El Salvador: According to a World Food Programme (WFP) study, " Alza de precios, mercados e inseguridad alimentaria y nutricional en Centroamérica " (Price Rises, Markets and Food and Nutritional Security in Central America), more than 100,000 people in this country of 6.5 million slipped...
Wallace J. Nichols (right) and Jeffrey Seminoff release an adult female hawksbill sea turtle with a satellite transmitter in El Salvador While fact-checking an upcoming story on the pros and cons of development in Baja California, Senior Researcher Meg Weaver...
Main ingredient of some Central American dishes, yucca (a tubercle similar to potato) has been part of crops in El Salvador and the Maya region for more than 1,400 years. Archaeological studies at Joya de Ceren, El Salvador revealed archaeological material of a Maya village, including houses, fields, temples, warehouses and sweat lodges. The “American Pompey”, as Joya de Ceren is also known, was
........comes from Charles Glazer, the US Ambassador to El Salvador. I've been sitting here thinking about what to say about this quote, where to start, how long I could make my diatribe. Let's just allow his words hang in the air. "The United States does not interfere in domestic policies (of other countries) ." And then consider events of the last four decades of so in Chile, Nicaragua, Argentina,...
Leaders and representatives of the Central American Integration System (SICA) member states Saturday met in Honduras's capital Tegucigalpa on regional security and integration, according to reports reaching Managua. Presidents from Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala and El Salvador, a vice president of Panama as well as representatives from the Dominican Republic and Belize attended the summit...
We tried to soften the (latest) blow for Cubs fans in today's column (linked here). Just think of all those people in countries like El Salvador and the Congo who'll be wearing "Chicago Cubs: World Series Champion!" T-shirts and...
