Six Jesuit priests killed by the army during El Salvador's civil war two decades ago were decorated with the country's highest honor Monday. Mauricio Funes, El Salvador's first leftist president, called the decorations an act of atonement for an atrocity during the 1980-1992 war between leftist rebels and a U.S.-backed right-wing government. He presented the National Order of Jose Matias Delgado to the families of the priests on the 20th anniversary of the massacre. "It means lifting the... Read Full Story
Salvadoran police arrested a man suspected of involvement in the murder a day earlier of a high-profile Franco-Spanish journalist who had been investigating violent drug gangs. Christian Poveda, 54, was found dead near his vehicle on a road north of the capital San Salvador on Wednesday. An autopsy later confirmed he had been shot in the face four times, police and doctors said. Poveda was killed just weeks before the release of his latest documentary on violent drug gangs that blight the... Read Full Story
A Franco-Spanish journalist has been assassinated in El Salvador just weeks before the release of his latest documentary on violent gangs that run drug and extortion rackets in this Central American country. Christian Poveda, 54, was found shot to death Wednesday near his vehicle on a road north of San Salvador, a National Civil Police spokesman told AFP. He had been filming in La Campanera, a suburb controlled by drug gangs known as "maras," before his death. Investigators said it is not... Read Full Story
Four alleged gang members and a police officer have been arrested in the slaying of French documentary filmmaker Christian Poveda, Salvadoran authorities said Wednesday. Howard Cotto, subdirector of investigations for the national police, identified the arrested officer as Jose Napoleon Espinoza, an agent assigned to the 911 emergency phone system in Soyapango outside the capital, San Salvador. Espinoza allegedly collaborated with gang members, living in an area controlled by El Salvador's... Read Full Story
A French filmmaker who recently made a documentary about the lives of members of El Salvador's street gangs was shot dead Wednesday in the Central American country, authorities said. The body of Christian Poveda, 52, was found inside a car in a Tonacatepeque, a rural region north of the capital, police said. He had been shot in the head. President Mauricio Funes said he was "devastated" by the journalist's killing. Salvadoran Public Safety Minister Manuel Melgar deplored the "repugnant and... Read Full Story
A French filmmaker who made a documentary about gangs in El Salvador has been shot dead on a road near the capital, police said. The body of Christian Poveda, 54, was found on Wednesday in El Rosario county along with documents he was carrying close to his vehicle, a National Civil Police spokesman told AFP. President Mauricio Funes said he was "dismayed" by the photographer and journalist's killing, which he "strongly condemned." The Central American leader called on authorities to "conduct... Read Full Story
Former rebel Mauricio Funes was Monday inaugurated president of El Salvador at a ceremony witnessed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as Washington seeks to end a era of bitter ties and work with a moderate Latin American left. Clinton, who earlier hailed a "peaceful transfer of power" from a string of US-backed rightist governments to a party of former Marxist guerrillas, attended the ceremony that included both moderate and anti-US leftists. As honor guards and bands playing... Read Full Story
The US State Department's top diplomat for Latin America Tom Shannon arrived in El Salvador on Wednesday, three days after leftist Mauricio Funes, leader of an ex-rebel party, was elected president. Before his victory, former TV journalist Funes said El Salvador, which in the past sent troops to Iraq, would remain a staunch ally of the United States, where some 2.5 Salvadorans reside. Shannon was due to meet with outgoing president Antonio Saca before meeting with Funes in the tiny, crime... Read Full Story
El Salvador's President-elect Mauricio Funes will make his first foreign trip to Brazil, officials said after his party of former Marxist rebels triumphed in weekend elections. Funes, a former TV journalist, overturned almost 20 years of right-wing rule in this tiny Central American nation when he beat Rodrigo Avila of the ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) on Sunday. With Funes's victory, El Salvador joined a growing tide of Latin American countries from Bolivia to Brazil that... Read Full Story
President-elect Mauricio Funes Wednesday said he will consider establishing diplomatic relations with China when he takes office on June 1. Funes, who heads the FMLN leftist rebel group-turned political party, said he would discuss San Salvador's links with Beijing with Taiwan's envoy as well as with Chinese officials in the Salvadoran capital. But he insisted the "type of relation" his incoming government will establish with Taiwan and Beijing "will be dealt with later on" in his... Read Full Story
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