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The Sierra Vista Herald - Tue Nov 24, 3:19 am ET
No descr U.S. Border Patrol agents have arrested 57 people discovered packed into a Pirtleville house they believe was used by smugglers to hide undocumented immigrants. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday that the stash house was discovered Friday. The federal agency says 56 people are Mexicans and one person is from El Salvador. The group consists of 19 females and 38 males. The ...
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St. Louis Beacon - Mon Nov 23, 7:14 am ET
Posted 6 a.m. Mon., Nov. 23 - Emily Thenhaus is spending a semester at the University of Central America in El Salvador, where she is taking classes and -- as required -- is working with the poor.
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The Florida Times-Union - Mon Nov 23, 12:21 am ET
BRUNSWICK, Maine - 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 ...
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Plymouth Observer - Sun Nov 22, 7:25 am ET
Salem High School graduate James Leddy has spent the last couple of years serving in the Peace Corps in El Salvador.
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Deseret News - Sat Nov 21, 8:40 pm ET
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced this year's Hispanic version of the musical production "Savior...
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The Washington Times - Sat Nov 21, 6:08 am ET
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 ...
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Richmond Times-Dispatch - Sat Nov 21, 12:11 am ET
A group of Latino merchants and entertainers is organizing a music, food and soccer event tomorrow to raise money for victims of Hurricane Ida in El Salvador. Mudslides and flooding nearly two weeks ago left about 200 dead and 15,000 displaced. Ida’s remnants dumped several inches of rain in the Richmond area last week, too. “The people need our help,“ said Demetrio Flores, one of the organizers ...
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 20, 5:51 pm ET
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- El Salvador paid two percentage points more than Panama in a sale of $800 million of bonds as the Central American country tapped debt markets less than a week after having its credit rating cut to junk.
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The Troy Record - Fri Nov 20, 4:45 pm ET
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 ...
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American Red Cross - Fri Nov 20, 2:53 pm ET
Tropical Storm Ida unleashed heavy rain, triggering floods and landslides that left scores dead and missing.
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La Prensa San Diego - Fri Nov 20, 1:19 pm ET
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 [...]
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CommonDreams.org - Fri Nov 20, 8:46 am ET
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
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Nov 19, 9:58 am ET
NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings has assigned El Salvador's upcoming USD-denominated bond issue, which matures in 2019, a 'BB' rating.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Nov 19, 9:54 am ET
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador----To help the victims of Hurricane Ida in El Salvador, the Western Union Foundation today donated $10,000 to Mercy Corps. The grant is part of the Western Union Our World, Our Family® global initiative and it will enable Mercy Corps to provide support to local NGOs responding to the disaster, including the Asociacion para el Desarrollo Humano , a humanitarian ...
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OfficialWire - Thu Nov 19, 7:56 am ET
A man from El Salvador was allowed to return to Miami this week, months after being deported as an illegal alien.
