Topic: Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front

El Salvador apologizes 30 years after massacre

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, ...

Mauricio Funes

), television journalist who served as president of El Salvador (2009- ).. The violent death of Funes's older brother, who was killed by police during a student protest in August 1980, induced Funes to leave the university before completing his degree. In ...
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 ...