President Antonio Saca

San Salvador, Dec 24, 2009 (EFE via COMTEX) -- At least three people were killed and more than 30 others were injured when the pick-up truck in which they were riding overturned in a rural area of the western Salvadoran province of Sonsonate, police ...  

La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 12/17/09 “El Salvador applauds Migratory Reform proposal in USA” - full transl. - Subheading: The Salvadoran Chancery has estimated that the initiative that senator (sic) Gutierrez supports is an integral migratory reform, more humane, compassionate and comprehensive. The Ministry of Foreign Relations of El Salvador has applauded the introduction of a law proposal for an Integral Migratory Reform...  

San Salvador, Dec 16, 2009 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Ten reputed members of the Mara 18 gang were arrested in connection with the September murder of Franco-Spanish photojournalist Christian Poveda, El Salvador's PNC national police force said Wednesday ...  

SAN SALVADOR, Jun 23 (IPS) - Serious allegations of corruption involving central figures in the government of right-wing former Salvadoran president Antonio Saca (2004-2009) will be investigated by a commission led by Finance Minister Carlos Cáceres ...  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - Police in El Salvador arrested 10 more gang members Wednesday in the September killing of French journalist Christian Poveda, and said he was apparently killed because he showed gang members committing illegal acts in his documentary. Police commissioner Augusto Cotto also said a city policeman arrested previously for allegedly collaborating in the killing had falsely told gang members that Poveda had been...  

VERAPAZ, El Salvador — Tears streamed down Elsy Portillo’s badly bruised face as she walked Monday behind coffins carrying her mother and only child in this town buried by a massive landslide, one of a series that killed at least 134 people nationwide.  

The ceremony for the 20th anniversary of the death of the Jesuit priests killed in El Salvador struck Loyola students, professors, administrators and even a group of students from Notre Dame Prep. One of the most shocking parts of the commemoration that took place on November 16 was the representation, by Loyola's Jesuits, of the six Jesuit faculty members at the University of Central America, killed during the Salvadorian civil war.  

SAN SALVADOR - The Salvadoran government announce the building of 3,000 houses for people who were affected by last November 8 heavy rain, which caused one hundred deaths and many missing people. According to the President's technical secretary Alex ...  

The White House has announced that Mari Del Carmen Aponte will be nominated by the president to become the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. Aponte is a former director of the radical Mexican organization La Raza and of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education fund. (More from Judicial Watch, here.) This is the second time she's been proposed for an ambassadorship. The first didn't go so well. President Clinton nominated her to be...  

VERAPAZ, El Salvador -- Tears streamed down Elsy Portillo's badly bruised face Monday as she walked behind coffins carrying her mother and only child in this town buried by a landslide, one in a series that killed at least 130 people in El Salvador.  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Salvadoran authorities say at least 192 people were killed by floods and landslides that swept through the country last week. El Salvador's Civil Protection agency says in a statement that 89 of the victims were ...  

The civil war ended 17 years ago, but Marquez is again leading groups through these forested hills with guerrilla warfare on her mind. Only now, those following her are Salvadoran students and American and European leftists stepping gingerly in their ...  

The death toll from flooding and mudslides in El Salvador triggered by the passage of Hurricane Ida jumped to 124 people, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes said in a national radio broadcast. Funes described the disaster as ”a tragedy” and said the damage sustained by the Central American country was ”incalculable.” Interior Minister Humberto Centeno said rescue workers were still struggling to reach some of the worst affected areas. “Up...  

SAN SALVADOR, Sep 26 (IPS) - He says he has read the Bible three times and that gang members are "not only victimisers but victims of the system of violence" in El Salvador. Arranging an exclusive IPS interview with Salvadoran youth gang leader ...  

MYERSTOWN - Thousands of miles from the village she serves in El Salvador, Guadalupe Cortez's soft smile spoke volumes in any language. Cortez visited with some of her friends from Friedens Lutheran Church on Tuesday morning, thanking them for their ...