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LONDON (SHARECAST) - Shares Condor Resources slumped after the Central America-focused gold and silver miner began legal proceedings against the El Salvador government over its failure to respond to Condor’s applications to renew its two mining licenses in the country.
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.
During the ceremony for the priests killed in 1989, the defense minister says that the army is prepared to ask for forgiveness and that he is willing to open military archives to investigators. In a sign of the remarkable changes afoot in El Salvador, the government Monday bestowed the nation's highest award on six Jesuit priests slain by the army exactly 20 years ago.
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 ...
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.
Nov. 16 marked the 20th anniversary of the brutal murder in San Salvador, El Salvador, of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. The event sparked a change in U.S. public opinion about the war in that country and our country’s role in supporting it. Commemorations of the events took place last weekend.
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.
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 [...]
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