A report of three rifles missing from military barracks triggered the investigation into a former Salvadoran army officer who pleaded guilty this week in the United States to federal terrorism charges, officials in this Central American country said Thursday. Hector Antonio Martinez-Guillen, 32, acknowledged Wednesday in a U.S. District Court in Virginia that he sold automatic rifles, ammunition and plastic explosives to a member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. The U.S. government has designated the leftist rebel group as a terrorist organization. Read Article
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The operation of gangs migrated in recent months the country’s rural areas, according to the information handled by the Ministry of National Defense. El Ministro David Munguía Payés, reveló que las pandillas han trasladado sus operaciones a departamentos, que hasta el 2009 estaban alejados de todo tipo de violencia como son Morazán, La Unión y […]
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The Supreme Court has disbanded two formerly powerful political parties because neither won the minimum level of votes in the 2004 presidential election. The court on Friday said the centrist Christian Democratic Party and conservative National Conciliation Party didn’t meet the 3 percent threshold required. Leaders of both parties denounced the decision but cannot appeal […]
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Alfredo Hurtado, 45, a cameraman employed by the privately-owned TV station Canal 33, was gunned down in bus in the town of Ilopango, near the capital, yesterday evening as he was on his way to work. The motive is not yet known. Read Article
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El Salvador has issued temporary ban on firearms in 27 municipalities as part of its efforts to reduce violence and criminal rates provided that 70-75% the homicides involve firearms. Justice and Security Minister Manuel Melgar told the press the decree will remain in force in 20 such places until June 15 and till May 15 […]
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The Minister of Justice and Security in El Salvador, Manuel Melgar, announced that two bills to curb the activities of organized crime in the country are being analyzed. One of the projects seeks to enable the confiscation of illegally acquired properties, and the second, to achieve the prohibition of weapons, according to the official. Read […]
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The arrest of a former health minister on corruption charges is shaking the country. Guillermo Maza, health minister in the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA)-led administration from 2004 to 2009, and eight others were accused of defrauding the state of more than three million USD in the reconstruction of a hospital damaged by the 2001 earthquakes. […]
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Ministry of National Defense in El Salvador received a donation of a labeling kit arms of the Organization of American States (OAS) benefit in the control of armaments in the country, reported Wednesday officially. The donation consists of a marking machine weapons, which facilitates the tracking of weapons and preventing the proliferation of smuggling, illicit […]
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A Salvadoran mechanics group, part of the small aircraft builder Press Group, part of building a fleet for basic training of pilots of the Colombian Air Force (FAC). The total investment in the fleet of 25 military trainer aircraft primary Calima T-90, is U.S. $ 10 million. Late last year, technicians Press, a company based […]
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The Salvadoran government plans to spend some 770.5 million USD to create 143,000 jobs this year. The details of the ambitious program were announced yesterday by several ministers and the technical secretary of the presidency, Alex Segovia. Of the 770.5 million USD, 566 millions will be allocated for infrastructure projects, in the hopes of creating […]
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Women are playing a leading role in a powerful social movement addressing natural resource protection, adaptation to climate change, and corporate accountability in this coastal village in El Salvador. Read Article
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President Alvaro Colom said in an interview published Friday in the Mexican daily El Universal that his country, Honduras and El Salvador seek to create “special combined forces” to fight Mexican drug traffickers operating in Central America. Read Article
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The National Civil Police (PNC) of El Salvador said on Monday that weapons belonging to one of its specialized units were driven by gang members who committed a slaughter in a city adjoining the capital, which killed 17 people in June last year. On 20 June a group of gangsters hijacked a bus with 20 […]
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The Salvadoran National Defense Ministry on Friday took control of two more prisons in the country to put a total of 11 prisons under military vigilance. Assistant director of Penal Centers Nelson Rauda said that the measure is part of the efforts to neutralize the crime planning inside the prisons. Read Article
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Salvadoran trade unions announced they would begin an open-ended strike on Monday if the Supreme Court of Justice ignores their demands for wage hikes in the legal sector. Read Article
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Governments throughout Latin America are ramping up dengue prevention campaigns after 1.5 million people were infected and over 1,000 people in the region died of the disease in 2010. There have already been deaths from dengue fever this year, the most recent one in Perú, where the deaths are exceeding hospital capacity – and it […]
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Due punishment for international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and his crimes was demanded outside the US Embassy on Monday by representatives of Salvadoran organizations. Leaders of the Salvadoran Coordinating Committee of Solidarity with Cuba gathered outside the US Embassy in San Salvador to address a letter to President Barack Obama, demanding justice against Posada Carriles. […]
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According to projections by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) study “The Economics of Climate Change in Central America: Summary 2010” released in late November, this country of 6.1 million people will be hit hardest by water shortages in the region. The United Nations agency reported that population growth in the […]
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Cuba and El Salvador this week reaffirmed their willingness to continue and deepen relations, which were restored on June 1, 2009 after nearly 50 years. That decision was expressed in a statement issued by the foreign ministers of the two nations, Bruno Rodriguez and Hugo Martinez, following an official visit by Rodriguez, which began Dec. […]
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