Topic: El Salvador
El Salvador's government asked for "forgiveness" Saturday over a civil war-era massacre in 1981 in which soldiers executed more than 1,000 people, nearly half of them children.Sunday marks the 30th anniversary of the slaughter at the small northeastern village of El Mozote, ...
President Barack Obama told Salvadorans he remains committed to reforming US immigration policies and pledged to help keep the tiny Central American country on a path of development.Immigration, security and economic growth figured as the central issues of Obama's visit and talks ...
Founded in 1530 by Spanish settlers near the west bank of the Rio Grande de San Miguel, the city was badly damaged by a severe earthquake in 1917. It was rebuilt and has become one of the largest cities of El Salvador.. ...
VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday made four recess job appointments to his administration, including a new U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, postponing the need for Senate approval.Recess appointments, which have been made by presidents of both parties, ...
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Leftist Mauricio Funes was sworn in as El Salvador's president on Monday, vowing a break with a past scarred by civil war as he brought a party founded by Marxist guerrillas to power for the first time.Funes, a ...
El Salvador vote could bring former rebels to power for first time since civil warEl Salvador's former guerrillas, behind the bespectacled, moderate face of a former TV journalist, could take power for the first time since the nation's civil war in elections ...