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Kutztown resident Scot Guldin, a financial consultant for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, will give a presentation at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Mertztown, on Dec. 13 after the worship service at 10 a.m.
Former insurgents leading parties of local and foreign tourists around their old battlegrounds help a nation confront its dark past
Tropical Storm Ida unleashed heavy rain, triggering floods and landslides that left scores dead and missing.
Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- El Salvador plans to sell benchmark dollar bonds in overseas markets after losing its investment-grade rating from Moody’s Investors Service, according to a person familiar with the transaction.
The United States Responds to Natural Disaster in El Salvador Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC November 17, 2009 On November 7-8, heavy rainfall related to Tropical Storm Ida caused floods and landslides in much of the central and eastern areas of El Salvador, including the capitol city of San Salvador, which has resulted in more than 190 deaths and severe infrastructural damage and ...
Salem High School graduate James Leddy has spent the last couple of years serving in the Peace Corps in El Salvador.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- It was a solemn evening for the Le Moyne College community as many gathered for a vigil honoring the victims of an attack in El Salvador 20 years ago.
Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- El Salvador was cut to Ba1 with a negative outlook by Moody’s Investors Service, marking the third credit company to rate the country’s debt at junk.
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) | The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft flying overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station. While much of the nation prepares for Thanksgiving, air crews from VP-26 are prepping to ship out for a six-month deployment to El Salvador, Italy and the Horn of Africa. After that, they'll rejoin the rest of Brunswick ...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—Salvadoran authorities say at least 192 people were killed by floods and landslides that swept through the country last week.
VERAPAZ, El Salvador (AP) — Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town Sunday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 124 people, authorities said.
EAST GREENBUSH — Stephanie Jorgensen’s neighbors know that when “Wilson,” her night-blooming cereus, flowers it is party time at the Jorgensen’s East Greenbush home. Wilson is a large four-foot wide and three-foot high potted Epiphyllum oxypetalum, a tropical cactus native to Mexico and Central American countries as Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatamala. In its native habitat it lives in the ...
By Mary Jo McConahay New America Media Editor’s Note: This week marks the 20th anniversary of the murder of six Jesuit priests, their cook and her daughter -– a turning point in El Salvador’s civil war. Former NAM contributing editor Mary Jo McConahay, who has been a reporter for many years in Latin America, was the first [...]
Aid groups, radio stations and nonprofits are rallying to help the tens of thousands of Salvadorans ravaged by Hurricane Ida.
by Tim Chitwood It was 6 a.m. on Nov. 16, 1989, when a gardener named Obdulio Ramos saw that six Jesuit priests and his wife and daughter had been gunned down by soldiers in El Salvador. read more
(Won 13, Lost 8, Tied 3) Saturday, Jan. 24 -- United States 3, Sweden 2 a-Wednesday, Feb. 11 -- United States 2, Mexico 0 a-Saturday, March 28 -- El Salvador 2, United States 2 a-Wednesday, April 1 -- United States 3, Trinidad and Tobago 0 a-Wednesday, June 3 -- Costa Rica 3, United States 1 a-Saturday, June 6 -- United States 2, Honduras 1 b-Monday, June 15 -- Italy 3, United States 1 b ...
