El Salvador's president gets rock-star welcome at conservative gathering outside Washington
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has received a rock-star welcome at a conservative gathering outside Washington as he urged people to โunapologetically fightโ against what he called โdark forces.โ.
El Salvador opposition warns it may ask to nullify congressional election results
As El Salvadorโs electoral body begins a vote-by-vote count of the countryโs elections last week, the political opposition warned they could ask to nullify results of the legislative elections due to irregularities.
El Salvador VP acknowledges mistakes in war on gangs but says country is 'not a police state'
Fรฉlix Ulloa, temporarily on leave as El Salvadorโs vice president while he runs for reelection alongside Nayib Bukele, has denied accusations that their administration has made undemocratic moves to consolidate power.
Rights group: leaked El Salvador data confirm abuses
Human Rights Watch says it has obtained a database leaked from the government of El Salvador that corroborates massive due process violations, severe prison overcrowding and deaths in custody under the countryโs emergency powers put in place last March to confront a surge in gang violence.
El Salvador fights gangs by destroying members' tombstones
El Salvadorโs government has taken its efforts against the countryโs powerful street gangs to another level by sending inmates into cemeteries to destroy the tombs of gang members at a time of year when families typically visit their loved onesโ graves.
Salvador court orders arrests in Dutch journalist killings
A Salvadoran judge has ordered the provisional arrest of several retired high-ranking members of the armed forces accused of having participated in the killings of four Dutch journalists in 1982 while they were covering the Central American nationโs civil war.
El Salvador forces encircle neighborhoods in gang crackdown
El Salvadorโs security forces have intensified their operations against the countryโs street gangs with mass arrests, the cordoning off of entire neighborhoods and house-by-house searches under a state of emergency sought by President Nayib Bukele.
Christian Pulisic benched as US makes 7 changes vs Honduras
Christian Pulisic was benched as U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter changed seven starters for a World Cup qualifier against Honduras in chilly St. Paul, where the temperature at kickoff was unofficially 2 degrees (minus-16 Celsius) with a minus-14 windchill.
Loved and decried, El Salvador's populist leader is defiant
In El Salvador, most are not bothered by President Nayib Bukeleโs dictatorial maneuvers -- sending armed troops into congress to coerce a vote, or ousting independent judges from the countryโs highest court, paving the way to control all branches of government.
El Salvador president wants Bitcoin as legal tender
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has announced in a recorded message played at a Bitcoin conference in Miami that next week he will send proposed legislation to the countryโs congress that would make the cryptocurrency legal tender in the Central American nation.
Outrage grows over police custody death in Mexico
Young women place flowers on the perimeter wall of the Quintana Roo state offices sprayed with graffiti that reads in Spanish "Justice for Victoria," during a protest in Mexico City, Monday, March. โShe was brutally murdered by Tulum police officers in Quintana Roo, Mexico,โ the president wrote. In the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, near the Guatemala border, Salazar requested and received refugee status. AdProtest marches were scheduled for later Monday in Tulum, Mexico City and San Salvador. AdThe womanโs death seemed likely to ignite tensions in Quintana Roo, where police used live ammunition to ward off a throng of about 100 demonstrators in Cancun in November.
California to give 40% of vaccine doses to vulnerable areas
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)SACRAMENTO, Calif. โ California will begin setting aside 40% of all vaccine doses for the stateโs most vulnerable neighborhoods in an effort to inoculate people most at risk from the coronavirus and get the stateโs economy open more quickly. The doses will be spread out among 400 ZIP codes with about 8 million people eligible for shots. The areas are considered most vulnerable based on metrics such as household income, education level, housing status and access to transportation. Once the state gives out 4 million doses in those neighborhoods, it will revise the metrics for getting into the even less restrictive orange and yellow tiers. Yet community health clinics focused on serving low-income and vulnerable Californians say they haven't been getting enough doses.
Salvadoran president appears to win control of congress
President Nayib Bukele holds his ballots as he prepares to vote in local and legislative elections, at a polling station in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. El Salvador went to the polls in legislative and mayoral elections that could break the congressional deadlock that has tied the hands of President Nayib Bukele. Exit polls suggested his party could win 53 of the 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly. โThe story is not unique to El Salvador โ Democratic elections have yielded antidemocratic leaders and governments, of the right and the left elsewhere in Latin America. AdThe tribunal noted that president is supposed to avoid using his office to influence elections.
Sources: Biden officials snub Salvadoran leader in DC trip
FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2020 file photo, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, accompanied by members of the armed forces, speaks to supporters outside Congress in San Salvador, El Salvador. The Biden administration turned down a meeting request with El Salvador's president on an unannounced trip to Washington on the first week of Feb. 2021. But like other world leaders befriended by Trump, he faces an uphill climb pivoting to the Biden administration, which is seeking to undo those policies and has signaled its relationship with El Salvador is under review. Bukele insisted that the trip was private and that he didn't request any meeting with Biden officials. Legislation passed last year and supported by Democrats curbs U.S. foreign aid to El Salvador to fund the purchase of U.S. military equipment.
El Salvador kept paying DC lobbyist after claim he was fired
In this image take from UNTV video, Nayib Armando Bukele, President of El Salvador, speaks in a pre-recorded video message during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at U.N. headquarters in New York. The tweet was widely shared in El Salvador. More recently, Stryk teamed up with another DC firm, Rational 360, which is run by veteran Democratic operatives including Joe Lockhart. El Salvador in October hired Rational 360 for $65,000 per month. Bukeleโs government has also awarded a $780,000 contract to a newly formed U.S.-based entity called Invest El Salvador.
Mueller scores twice, US routs El Salvador 6-0 in exhibition
โThis could be World Cup qualifying. and I think we need to just be able to execute and be ready and not take our foot off the pedal. 22, the U.S. used a lineup mostly from eliminated Major League Soccer teams and had wide stretches of open space against 70th-ranked El Salvador in a match played outside the FIFA calendar and without top stars. Right back Julian Araujo also started in his debut, and defenders Marco Farfan and Kyle Duncan debuted as second-half substitutes. Aaronson got the lone goal of the second half in the 50th with a 12-yard right-foot shot from Lletget's pass.
Iota Dissipates Over Central America
The remnants are moving toward the west near 12 mph (19 km/h), and this general motion is expected to continue today. Maximum sustained winds are near 30 mph (45 km/h) with higher gusts. The estimated minimum central pressure is 1006 mb (29.71 inches). Portions of Nicaragua and El Salvador: 2 to 4 inches (50 to 100 mm), with isolated maximum totals of 6 inches (150 mm). SURF: Swells generated by Iota will affect much of the coast of Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula during the next day or so.
Rain-fueled landslide in El Salvador kills 9; 35 missing
Women take pictures of an area destroyed by a deadly landslide in Nejapa, El Salvador, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. The slide occurred Thursday night when earth from the upper part of the San Salvador volcano was set in motion, sweeping up trees and homes. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
Rain-fueled landslide in El Salvador kills 9; 1 missing
Women take pictures of an area destroyed by a deadly landslide in Nejapa, El Salvador, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. The slide occurred Thursday night when earth from the upper part of the San Salvador volcano was set in motion, sweeping up trees and homes. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)SAN SALVADOR โ A landslide left nine people dead, seven injured and one missing after torrential rains in El Salvador, civil defense officials said Friday. Local resident Roxana Ruรญz came to the search area looking for news of her cousin; she later learned her body had been found. โWe believe that we can find people alive and we are not going to rest,โ said Interior Minister Mario Durรกn.
Thousands of immigrants in Texas hope the courts or the election will save their protected status
Gerson Bonilla, who came to Texas from El Salvador, runs a heating, ventilation and air conditioning business in Houston with a dozen employees including his two brothers and other family members. In 2017, about 45,000 people from El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti lived in Texas under the program, according to a report by the Center for American Progress. Bonilla fled El Salvador in 1989 and received permission to legally stay under Temporary Protective Status. Former Vice President Joe Bidenโs campaign said that if elected, the Democratic presidential candidate would protect TPS recipients. โAt the beginning [after the court ruling] it was sad and disappointing and the anxiety came,โ she said.
Top Trump adviser wants more nations to field asylum claims
Critics note asylum-seekers are sent to countries with high levels of violence and poverty and little infrastructure to handle asylum claims. The coronavirus struck before flights began to Honduras and El Salvador, putting those launches on hold. Biden has pledged to undo many, but not all, of Trumpโs policies. With the pandemic and other issues, it is unclear how much appetite Biden would have to tackle all that Trump has done. Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were under heavy U.S. pressure to acquiesce last year, with Trump threatening at times to cut off international aid.