Smarter Travel (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
With Delta's latest international sale, fly from Atlanta to cities in Mexico and Central and South America. Destinations include Belize City, Bogota, Guadalajara, Lima, Managua, and San Salvador. Travel is valid through March 2010.
Boisdale (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
As far back as 1460 it has been noted that natives of North, Central and South Americas had been using tobacco for hundreds of years. In 1492 Christopher Columbus’ logs stated that natives in San Salvador smoked leaves of certain plants. Christopher Columbus received tobacco as a gift by the natives and consequently is credited [...]
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
This weekend, thousands of people gathered at the gates of Ft. Benning to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the killings of 14-year-old Celia Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos and the six Jesuit priests with whom she worked at the Central American University in San Salvador. Nearly 5,000 people are gathered in the pouring rain according to Larry White, a protester who spoke to Truthout. Earlier in the...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
On November 16, 1989, an elite unit of the Salvadoran military entered the gates of the Jesuit-run Central American University in San Salvador. When they left, six Jesuit priests lay dead, along with their housekeeper and her teenage daughter.
Tim's El Salvador Blog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
An additional 2500 troops are out on the streets in high crime areas of El Salvador. But will they reduce violent crime? IPS looks at the issue : So far this year, there have been 3,673 murders in this country of 5.8 million people - 494 more than in the same period in 2008, according to police statistics. The novel aspect of the measure is that soldiers will now be allowed to carry out searches and...
The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Mural at the University of Central America in San Salvador depicts martyred Jesuit priests and suggests complicity of the nation’s business and political leadership.Slain Jesuit priests honored in El SalvadorIn El Salvador, six Jesuit priests are being honored twenty years after their murders by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military. On Monday [November 16, 2009], the priests were bestowed the
Smarter Travel (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Delta is offering sale fares from Atlanta to cities in the Caribbean and Central America including Antigua, San Salvador, Santo Domingo, and St. Kitts, among several others. Book tickets by Monday, November 23.
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...
The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
* El Salvador: Six Jesuit priests slain in an infamous 1989 massacre where remembered by Salvadorans including being posthumously granted the country’s highest honor by President Mauricio Funes. * Bolivia: With president Evo Morales apparently on his way to reelection the big race may be for control of Bolivia’s legislature . * Mexico: Could increased auto demand in the U.S. help drag Mexico...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Salvadoran authorities say at least 192 people were killed by floods and landslides that swept through the country last week.
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
I finally had a short ride up to San Salvador however I still had to work for it as the first 20 km were straight uphill. San Salvador sits in a valley like almost every Central American capital. They also seem to have a token volcano near be San Salvador was no different. The distinction between the good part and the bad part or should I say the colourful part of town here is very distinct
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
I'm back in San Salvador for a couple of days before heading home. I have to leave for Toronto as soon as I get back so I thought I would break up my travel so I'm only travelling two days in a row. As I was coming back from Honduras I was reminded again how easy it is to travel by bicycle. When I crossed the El SalvadorHonduras border the first time I was only stopped once to check my passpo
Tim's El Salvador Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
On November 16, 1989, that same fateful day in El Salvador when the Jesuits were murdered, Lutheran Bishop Medardo Gomez was also targeted by the military. For Bishop Gomez and his Lutheran church were also voices who denounced the injustice they saw in Salvadoran society. They were deemed to be subversives by the government for siding with the poor and doing such radical things as operating a refugee...
Pax Christi Summit (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Sunday, November 15 • 2 to 5pm 8th Floor, 89 Market Street in Downtown Newark, NJ On November 16, 1989 a US-trained commando unit burst into the Jesuit residence at the University of Central America (UCA) in San Salvador. They killed the six Jesuit priests there at the time, along with their cook and her daughter. More than 75,000 people died during El Salvador’s civil war, mostly civilians...
Tim's El Salvador Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Too often when we write about the murders which happened 20 years ago on November 16, 1989, we just refer to the "6 Jesuits, their housekeeper and her daughter." As people around the world commemorate them this weekend, let us remember these martyrs of El Salvador's civil war by name: Father Ignacio Ellacuría , 59, was since 1979 rector of the UCA, and an internationally-respected...
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