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L.A. Times - Latin America Blog (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Five Los Angeles City Council members this week pledged to donate $2,000 each to help storm victims in El Salvador. Council Members Jose Huizar, Eric Garcetti (council president), Ed Reyes, Tony Cardenas and Richard Alarcon promised a donation totaling $10,000 to a local disaster relief agency focused on El Salvador. Torrential rains in the Central American nation this month triggered flooding and...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
The government of El Salvador on Thursday announced the construction of 1,500 temporary houses for the victims of hurricane Ida that left more than 15,000 people homeless and about 200 deaths in the country. The shelter houses, each about 30 square meters in area, will be ready in three months, according to El Salvador Housing and Urban Development Minister Edin Martinez. The minister said the government...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador--(BUSINESS WIRE)--To help the victims of Hurricane Ida in El Salvador, the Western Union Foundation today donated $10,000 to Mercy Corps. The grant is part of the Western Union Our World, Our Family® global initiative and it will enable Mercy Corps to provide support to local NGOs responding to the disaster, including the Asociacion para el Desarrollo Humano (ADHU), a...
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Alterdestiny (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Erwin reminds us that today is the day of the annual protest against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), formerly known as the School of the Americas. The name-change happened back in 2001, when the Bush administration realized the School's name had been associated with some of the worst crimes against humanity in the 20th century in the Americas. Rather than closing...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) | The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft flying overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station. While much of the nation prepares for Thanksgiving, air crews from VP-26 are prepping to ship out for a six-month deployment to El Salvador, Italy and the Horn of Africa. After that, they'll rejoin the rest of Brunswick aircraft...
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Living/FYI: House & Home -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Inspired by a woman who ran a cooperative coffee farm in El Salvador, Roxanne Hutton of Fairway started Mother Earth Coffee Co. In 2002, Hutton met Alicia Morales, who struggled to help the co-op overcome bankruptcy, earthquakes, Hurricane Mitch and a civil war. Hutton was touring El Salvador with her family to introduce her son, Matt Otterstrom, now 17, to the country from which he was adopted.
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Friday, November 20, 2009 : Thousands are gathering at Fort Benning in Georgia this weekend for the annual protest to shut down the U.S. Army training center dubbed by critics as the "School of the Assassins" for having trained some of the worst human rights violators in Latin America. This year's protest will mark the 20th anniversary of the murder of six Jesuit priest in El Salvador by...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Friday, The Washington Post explored the guilt of the millionaire liberal in a story on the front of the Metro section headlined: "Grappling with a wealth of guilt: Young heirs seek moral balance between inherited windfalls, social responsibilities." But one subject in Ian Shapira’s story of "moral balance" is working for the Marxists in El Salvador. The caption under...
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It be Liz (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Back in the day, when I was a Teacher's Assistant for a middle school class, I used to really enjoy telling tall tales. It happened gradually, but I found I got a better reaction when I blurred the truth. Here are some examples of my yarns: One student would ask me over and over again how old I was, and I always replied 'I'm 73 years young.' He asked why I looked like I was in my 20s and I told him...
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Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
URL: http://www.wola.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=viewp&id=943&Itemid=33 . Source: Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). This report paints a portrait of the police in Central America today. It draws on interviews conducted by in-country experts with government officials, current and former police, representatives of international aid agencies, and civil society leaders in...
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Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Mobile operator Digicel has reported a 10 per cent increase in its half year profit to US$364 million from operations in its 24 markets in the Caribbean and El Salvador.
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Dresden (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Lonely Planet has named the top 10 countries to travel to next year and they start with El Salvador, which is marked by its “ ...
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Time (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Former insurgents leading parties of local and foreign tourists around their old battlegrounds help a nation confront its dark past
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MoneyGram International (NYSE:MGI), a leading global money transfer company, announced today that it would temporarily reduce its money transfer service fee from all U.S. and Canada agent locations to El Salvador from Nov. 18 to Dec. 2. MoneyGram offered the temporary fee reductions in the days after Hurricane Ida to support Salvadorans recover from this deadly storm....
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Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
================== After Brazil and El Salvador, Panama to test Israeli UAV Nov. 18, 2009Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST A Heron UAV during a flight demonstration in Brazil.Photo: IAI Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is strengthening its position in Central and South America and in the coming year will hold demonstrations of its Heron Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
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