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November 19, 2009

Western Union Foundation Donates $10,000 to Help Victims of Hurricane Ida in El Salvador

MoneyGram International Temporarily Reduces Money Transfer Fees from the United States and Canada to El Salvador – MoneyGram International Reduce Temporalmente Sus Tarifas De Envíos de Dinero Desde Estados Unidos y Canadá A El Salvador

November 18, 2009

After accidental deportation, critics say immigration officials making mistakes – After a Salvadoran man was mistakenly deported, immigration rights activists have complained about toughened enforcement by authorities.

The estimated damage caused by the Nov. 7-8 floods and mudslides to El Salvador’s infrastructure has climbed to $880 million, the country’s public works minister said Tuesday.

November 16, 2009

Death toll in El Salvador storms rises to 192

November 13, 2009

The official death toll from the floods caused by torrential rains last weekend stands at 157, with 14,166 people still in shelters – El Salvador

November 12, 2009

Donations from countries and organizations began to be distributed on Wednesday in El Salvador among those affected by last weekend’s flooding and mudslides that killed 157 people, resulted in 58 people missing and hundreds of damaged homes.

November 11, 2009

Seven children and one adult were reported missing after a Baptist church in El Salvador collapsed amid heavy rains and flooding caused by Hurricane Ida Nov. 8.

November 10, 2009

Chávez’s Next Target: El Salvador – Twenty-first century socialism may have stumbled in Honduras but it is being tried again in El Salvador.

UNICEF assisting victims of flooding in El Salvador

At least 10,000 Salvadorans are in urgent need of food aid after devastating floods and mudslides that damaged crops, destroyed homes and killed 130 people, the U.N. World Food Program

Salvadoran community organizations in Los Angeles have mobilized to help their country after a tropical storm over the weekend left at least 130 people dead in the small Central American nation.

November 4, 2009

El Salvador Named Top 10 Travel Destination for 2010 by Lonely Planet

El Salvador’s president says the country will award its highest honor to six Jesuit priests murdered by the army in 1989.

October 27, 2009

Preserving El Salvador’s historic memory: Organizer explains big L.A. event – “Preservación de la Memoria Histórica Salvadoreña”

October 14, 2009

Former Chicagoan brings us a taste of El Salvador A new coffee: Finca de Angeles Coffee – Stephanie Andersen-Samayoa

October 5, 2009

The lakes and volcanoes of El Salvador – offers its few visitors a big welcome – plus volcano walks, surfing and seafood

The political crisis in Honduras is having a crippling effect on trade in Central America, with Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica losing millions of dollars of trade every day.

Surfers Are Here! El Salvador Sheds Its Image

September 15, 2009

A large group of Salvadorans living in Southern California over the weekend celebrated the 188th anniversary of El Salvador’s independence with a parade through the streets of Hollywood.

September 9, 2009

Latino DVD: Romero – Raul Julia – about the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador

August 24, 2009

Threats from a street gang, MS-13, forced Pablo, Rene and Silvia Mira to flee to the U.S. in 2004 from their native El Salvador. – Now, the question is whether the government will consider resistance to joining gangs as grounds for asylum

June 3, 2009

Los presidentes Mauricio Funes, de El Salvador, y Felipe Calderón, de México, acordaron “empujar” la reforma migratoria para buscar beneficio para los ciudadanos mexicanos y salvadoreños que de forma ilegal residen en los Estados Unidos, así como otros temas que podrían establecer ambas naciones.

June 2, 2009

El Salvador’s 1st leftist president Mauricio Funes takes power

June 1, 2009

In Central America, differences between the left and right political slant are increasingly unclear. So while El Salvador appears to have elected a leftist president and Panama seems to have elected a rightist, the two may not be that far apart in the way

May 31, 2009

Salvadoreños en Los Ángeles insisten en voto en el exterior

May 30, 2009

El Salvador y Cuba reanudarán relaciones diplomáticas a partir de 1 de junio

March 20, 2009

Salvadoran President-Elect Pledges to Work With U.S. on Immigration

March 19, 2009

Costa Rica said Wednesday it will re-establish diplomatic ties with communist Cuba, and El Salvador’s new president-elect promised to do the same after he takes office.

March 17, 2009

Daring to Change: Exclusive Interview with El Salvador’s President-Elect, Mauricio Funes

March 16, 2009

FMLN Victory El Salvador – Funes: “We Have Signed a New Accord on Peace and Reconciliation”

Republican congressmen’s threats of revoking protected status of El Salvadoran immigrants are repulsive and demands an apology – Trent Franks (R-Ariz) and Dan Burton (R-Ind)

A leftist television journalist has won El Salvador’s presidential election, bringing a party of former guerrillas to power for the first time since a bloody civil war and ending two decades of conservative rule.

“QUE VIVA EL FMLN!” El Salvador’s Left Wins Elections, Ends 150 Years of Military-Oligarch Rule

March 13, 2009

EL SALVADOR: ‘Many Swapped Farming for (Shrinking) Remittances’

El Salvador Holds National Elections Amidst Renewed GOP Threats Against Electing FMLN

March 10, 2009

The faces of El Salvador’s gangs

March 9, 2009

Salvadoreños miden sus deseos políticos – Dado que la comunidad en el extranjero no puede votar, realizan un simulacro electoral

January 21, 2009

Salvadorans living abroad sent home about $3.8 billion last year, an increase of 2.5 percent despite the global economic turmoil.

December 23, 2008

El Salvador to withdraw troops from Iraq

December 2, 2008

Funds at risk for families back home – The dependence of a Salvadoran town on remittances from emigrants in the United States mirrors the worry in much of Latin America.

November 25, 2008

Salvadoran President Tony Saca will be traveling to the United States to urge Salvadoran immigrants there to reregister in a temporary visa program.

November 19, 2008

Shredding Social Fabric – Company promoters “contaminate” communities in El Salvador

November 18, 2008

La veterana actriz salvadoreña Isabel Dada recibió hoy el Premio Nacional de Cultura de manos del presidente de este país, Elías Antonio Saca, por su destacada carrera en las artes escénicas y por ser considerada un referente del teatro nacional. – El Salvador

Los salvadoreños que residen en el exterior enviaron 3.185,3 millones de dólares a sus familias en este país en los primeros diez meses del año, un incremento de 4,1%, informó el lunes el Banco Central de Reserva (BCR).

November 3, 2008

El Salvador native, 86, had a long journey to U.S. voting booth – Maria Reyes, 86, is eager to cast her first ballot in the nation that gave her family a new start.

October 15, 2008

The U.S. government on Tuesday pledged to give El Salvador $2.6 million to fight violent gangs known as Maras.

August 8, 2008

El Salvador reduces Iraq troop numbers – the only Latin American country with troops there

July 29, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Tuesday – July 29th, 200

El Salvador’s Monument to Memory and Truth – Smooth granite carved with nearly 30,000 names honors those slain or disappeared in the 1980s civil war, and the list keeps growing.

July 24, 2008

The Babylon Town board made history when it appointed a union organizer who fled war-torn El Salvador in the early 1980s as its first Hispanic American member – Antonio A. Martinez – New York

July 21, 2008

A Recent History of the Disability Rights Movement in El Salvador

July 17, 2008

Marketwire Launches NoticiasDigitales, the Newswire Industry’s First Real-Time Latin America Digital News Network; Exclusive Deal Guarantees News Publication on More Than 100 Leading Spanish-Language Websites

Metal Mining in Central America: Pain and Resistance

July 14, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Monday – July 14th, 2008

US Embassy Admits to Intervention in 2004 Salvadoran Presidential Elections

Did You Know? The shortest contestant in this year’s Miss Universe show was Miss El Salvador, a petite 5-foot-3

June 23, 2008

U.S. immigration courts declare 13-year-old must be separated from his only parent and deported back to El Salvador alone (Latina Lista)

The Latin Americanist: Journalist’s lead grows in El Salvador

June 22, 2008

Cost of a bus trip stirs conflict in El Salvador

June 19, 2008

Pan-American Life Achieves Ranking as No.1 Hispanic Business in Louisiana

June 18, 2008

UNLV Professor Premieres Latino Film at CineVegas

June 17, 2008

Latin American consulates to join forces in NY, NJ

Time is the key to planning quinceañera

June 12, 2008

El Salvador is seeking a prestigious Israeli award for its late consul Jose Arturo Castellanos for saving thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in World War II

June 4, 2008

What is the market for remittance insurance? Three experts share their insights.

April 24, 2008

At El Salvador mall, shopping and salvation all under one roof

April 22, 2008

2 months later, Hispanic man a mystery – New York City

April 16, 2008

Global Voices Online » El Salvador: Blogging for Justice in a Little Girl’s Murder

March 31, 2008

Jose Antonio Rodriguez Appointed New CEO of Digicel El Salvador

March 26, 2008

El Salvador Tourism Yields 20 Million Dollars In Revenues

March 18, 2008

Many Hispanics pin hopes on pope’s visit

March 10, 2008

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Launches National Call To Action to Recruit Thousands of Hispanic Mentors

February 26, 2008

Siler City’s First Latino Helps Cops Communicate – North Carolina

February 25, 2008

Guatemala’s Fundacion Ayudame a Vivir Fundraising Campaign Raises More Than $2.6 Million

February 21, 2008

A Beloved Doctor Bids Adios – Physician Returns to El Salvador After Years of Running a Clinic for the Poor – Washington DC

February 20, 2008

Latinas come of age with the help of Identity – After-school programs at Gaithersburg nonprofit assist in building relationships – Maryland

February 13, 2008

Daniel Caceres ministers to Hispanics in Oklahoma – (Escaping death in El Salvador)

February 7, 2008

Saluda tackles MS-13 grafitti – South Carolina

February 6, 2008

DigiLinea Provides US Hispanics from Panama with New Mobile Telephony Solution

February 5, 2008

Christian Chávez Rushed to Hospital After Fainting

RBD Star Faints During El Salvador Show – Christian Chavez

Hispanic Radio Listeners Nationwide to Support Life-Saving Efforts Against Childhood Cancer

January 31, 2008

Federal Officials Arrest 20 Illegal Immigrants in Wisconsin Following 3 Day Sweep

January 24, 2008

Did You Know? A quarter of the U.S. population of Salvadorans and Salvadoran Americans lives in the Washington area — 500,000 or so people who have become part of the multicultural fabric here even as they maintain strong ties with El Salvador.

January 23, 2008

Latino Móvil Launches New SMS Technology Service That Provides Users with News Directly From Their Countries of Origin

January 22, 2008

Creditors seek millions from companies owned by Salvadoran elite – 01/20/2008 – MiamiHerald.com

January 15, 2008

Single Touch Interactive Partners with Latino Movil to Launch Innovative ADC Program

January 4, 2008

University of California, Davis Immigration Policy Experts Available