El Salvador

El Salvador: HIV and AIDS Statistics

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Tim Muth publishes the latest statistics on HIV and AIDS in El Salvador.

HIV/AIDS and El Salvador

Tim's El Salvador Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

December 1 is World AIDS Day, and so it is worth looking at the situation relating to HIV/AIDS in El Salvador. A recent USAID profile provides an overview of the prevalence of the disease and efforts to combat it.  HIV and AIDS Estimates Total Population 5.9 million (mid-2007) Estimated Population Living with HIV/AIDS 36,000 [22,000-72,000] Adult HIV Prevalence 0.9% HIV Prevalence in Most-At-Risk...

191 endure 9 frustrating hours stuck on LA tarmac

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Nearly 200 passengers on a flight from El Salvador landed Monday in Los Angeles after spending nine hours aboard a grounded plane at a smaller airport as the airline and customs officials tried to work through apparent confusion.

• 191 endure 9 frustrating hours stuck on LA tarmac - kansascity.com
• 191 Salvadoran travelers endure 9 hours on LA tarmac, 45 miles from destination - Star Tribune
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Stuck in a Plane for 9 Hours at Ontario Airport

LAist (Free subscription) | yesterday

As of two minutes before 9 a.m., "passengers on a flight from El Salvador have been waiting on a Southern California regional airport's tarmac since about midnight after their plane was diverted from Los Angeles International Airport because of heavy fog," according to the Associated Press . The original crew is now over their maximum hours they can fly so a new crew is taking over.

Mashups in Miami Beach

Off Course-On Target (Free subscription) | yesterday

I’m in Miami today finishing up my most recent set of business trips around the planet and catching my flight back to El Salvador. I had the great fortune of spending last night and this morning with a business colleague...

191 endure 9 frustrating hours stuck on LA tarmac

Examiner (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Nearly 200 passengers on a flight from El Salvador landed Monday in Los Angeles after spending nine hours aboard a grounded plane at a smaller airport as the airline and customs officials tried to work through apparent confusion.

• 191 endure 9 frustrating hours stuck on LA tarmac - Arizona Republic
• 191 Salvadoran travelers endure 9 hours on LA tarmac, 45 miles from destination - Star Tribune
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191 endure 9 frustrating hours stuck on LA tarmac

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Nearly 200 passengers on a flight from El Salvador landed Monday in Los Angeles after spending nine hours aboard a grounded plane at a smaller airport as the airline and customs officials tried to work through apparent confusion.

Costa Rica sets their home base

HexagonalBlog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008

According to the website FutboldeCostaRica.com, the Costa Rican federation will play three of their Hexagonal home matches on the artificial pitch at Saprissa stadium. Those three matches are against Honduras, El Salvador, and the USA. The announcement came from a FEDEFUTBOL official on local radio, but I haven't seen any updates on the federation website. There isn't any word as to where Costa Rica...

The Domino Effect

Key West Diary (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008

I remember President Reagan pointing out the proximity of San Salvador to Houston, closer he pointed out to a geography-phobic nation, than Houston is to DC, and thus he started on a ruinous war to destroy Sandinstas in Nicaragua supplying guerrillas in El Salvador, on the grounds that soon they might be knocking on our own southern border. It was a continuation of the "Domino Theory" of the projected...

The ongoing murder epidemic

Tim's El Salvador Blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008

On Tuesday, I pointed to a columnist writing about the need for prevention efforts to deal with Central America and El Salvador's high murder rates. The next day, a report was released by the Latin American Technological Information Network (RITLA), which gave the statistics for the murder rate among the population ages 15 - 24. As the BBC reports: Latin America has the highest murder rates in the...

War in Iraq ends for international forces

BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008

Deborah Haynes President Bush's “coalition of the willing” is set to all but disappear from Iraq by the end of the year, with 13 countries, including South Korea, Japan, Moldova and Tonga preparing to withdraw their few remaining troops. Britain, Australia, Romania, Estonia and El Salvador are the only nations, apart from the US, that plan to remain after a UN mandate authorising their presence expires...

Entertainment - E! Entertainment TV to Air 'El Salvador' Worldwide

Good Read (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008

For the second consecutive year, El Salvador will make known its tourist options through Sony Pictures, in a simultaneous world-level broadcast of the E! Special EL Salvador ! Impresionante ! program. The presence of the team from the US firm was once again achieved through the promotional work carried out at international level by the Salvadorean Ministry of Tourism and the Salvadorean Tourism Corporation...

• El Salvador To Be Seen the World Over Once Again During E! Entertainment Television's Second Special Program - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• El Salvador To Be Seen the World Over Once Again During E! Entertainment Television's Second Special Program - PR News Wire
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Ching sends Houston into CONCACAF quarters

ESPN (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008

Brian Ching's first half strike sent America's Houston Dynamo into the CONCACAF Champions League quarter-finals after securing a 1-0 win over El Salvador's Luis Angel Firpo.

Shortchanged travelers chase troubled Chelsea agency

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008

Isabel Perez arrived at the airport with her three young sons for a trip to El Salvador in July, only to be told by the airline that just three tickets were reserved for her family.

Fundamadrid Academy in El Salvador

Realmadrid.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008

A tournament took place last weekend on the slopes of San Miguel Volcano. Sixty children from the San Salvador and San Miguel Social Integration Academies of the Real Madrid Foundation participated. The event was held at the top end of the San Isidro coffee plantation, owned by the García Prieto family.