Salvadoran court sentences 3 youths to prison after they appeared in video making gang signs
A court in El Salvador has sentenced three youths to five years in prison and put five more on probation after they were arrested last year following the public release of a video of them making gang ...
Former El Salvador President Funes dies in exile at 65
His last sentence came just last year in June. He was sentenced to eight years in prison for receiving an airplane as a ...
Mauricio Funes, former Salvadoran president, dies in Nicaragua
Former Salvadoran president, Mauricio Funes, died late on Tuesday in Nicaragua, where the leftist leader had been living ...
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A 5.8-magnitude earthquake shakes El Salvador but there are no initial reports of damage
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A strong earthquake drove frightened residents of El Salvador’s capital into the streets Thursday morning, but there was no immediate report of damage or deaths.
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Jimmy Carter’s Dark Legacy in El Salvador
Some consider it less of a civil war and more of a proxy war; America’s justification for its involvement was that communism was spreading from the Soviet Union, Nicaragua, and Cuba. But in ...
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El Salvador closes 2024 with a record low number of homicides
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador closed 2024 with a record low 114 homicides, continuing notable security gains under a second full year of a state of emergency that has given the ...