News on El Salvador

El Salvador apologizes 30 years after massacre

2011-12-10T17:30:15Z

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, where troops rounded up men, women and children, accused many of collaborating with leftist guerrillas, and killed them in cold blood.

It was among th...

In El Salvador, Obama offers hope, funds

2011-03-22T18:30:31Z

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 with Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes, a leftist who extended an effusi...

San Miguel

2010-11-29T14:59:20Z

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Obama makes four appointments, bypassing Senate

2010-08-25T13:26:39Z

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 nee...

Leftist Funes takes over as El Salvador's president

2010-04-16T12:00:53Z

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 former televi...

Ex-Salvadoran rebels seek power through ballot box

2010-04-16T16:02:46Z

El Salvador vote could bring former rebels to power for first time since civil war

El 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 Sunday that threaten to uproot two decades of conservative rule.

Mauricio Funes, plucked...

CORRECTION Phoenix Drop House

2010-12-03T17:01:27Z

Members of the Phoenix Police Department S.W.A.T. team stand in front of a home as detectives interview a suspect in custody at a suspected drop house Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, in Phoenix. Police say three suspected smugglers are in custody, and 10 juveniles, who are from Mexico, San Salvador, El Salvador, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. The fire, which according to initial reports was accidental and may have been caused by an electrical short circuit, killed at least 16 young inmates and injured 24. (AP Photo/Luis Romero)

El Salvador Mexico Massacre

2010-09-05T18:30:16Z

El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes speaks at a ceremony where people retrieved the bodies of family members who were killed in Mexico, at a military base in Comalapa, El Salvador, Sunday Sept. 5, 2010. Eleven people from El Salvador were among 72 migrants killed, allegedly by the Zetas drug gang, in August in northern Mexico while tryi...

El Salvador Drug War

2010-09-04T15:30:08Z

El Salvador's National Attorney Romeo Barahona, right, gestures next to police officers guarding over 9 million US dollars that were found buried in a rural area in Zacatecoluca state, east of San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. According to government inves...

Mexico Drug War

2010-08-27T19:00:13Z

A federal police armored vehicle guards outside a funeral home where some of the 72 bodies of men and women that were allegedly killed by the Zetas drug gang are kept in Reynosa , Mexico, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. A wounded migrant who escaped the Zetas gang stumbled into a military checkpoint and led marines to the scene were migrants from Brazil,