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Magnitude 7.4 offshore quake hits Central America

Marcos Aleman · October 14, 2014 1:09 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday Oct. 24, 2006 file photo, Roman Catholic priest Antonio Rodriguez Tercero explains the function of the youth center in the San Salvador suburb Mejicanos, El Salvador. More charges have been filed against a Spanish priest arrested July 30, 2014, accusing him of getting imprisoned gang members transferred to less harsh prisons and helping them continue extorting people from inside their cells, Salvadoran prosecutors said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Luis Romero, File)

El Salvador add charges for priest in gang case

Marcos Aleman · August 5, 2014 11:12 pm

El Salvador's incoming President, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, right, and his wife Margarita Villalta wave during his swearing in ceremony in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, June 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Ex-guerrilla sworn in as El Salvador’s president

Marcos Aleman · June 1, 2014 11:11 pm

Gunmen open fire inside bus, kill 6 in El Salvador

Marcos Aleman · May 24, 2014 2:23 am

In this April 16, 2014 photo, police officers carry the casket containing the body of police investigator Elmer Antonio Bautista during a burial ceremony in Izalco, El Salvador. According to the police, Bautista was murdered by members of the Mara 18 gang while on duty. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Official: Salvadoran gangs buying automatic rifles

Marcos Aleman · April 26, 2014 3:11 am

Presidential candidate Salvador Sanchez Ceren, of the ruling Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), celebrates after partial results were announced by election authorities in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, March 9, 2014. El Salvador's too-close-to-call presidential runoff election has raised competing claims of victory from Ceren, a former fighter for leftist guerrillas and the candidate of the once long-ruling conservative party that fought a civil war from 1980 to 1992, Norman Quijano but preliminary returns from nearly all polling stations showed Quijano a few thousands votes behind Ceren. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Leftist declared winner in Salvador’s election

Marcos Aleman · March 14, 2014 1:20 am

FILE - In this June 27, 2012 file photo, El Salvador's Minister of Justice and Public Safety David Munguia Payes attends a donation of security equipment ceremony in San Salvador, El Salvador. Payes, now the country's defense minister, along with the army's top commanders said Wednesday, March 12, 2014, at a news conference, that the army will respect the final vote count issued by electoral authorities. The conservative party candidate Norman Quijano had called on the army to defend against what he claims is fraud that gave leftist candidate Salvador Sanchez Ceren a 0.2-per cent margin in preliminary returns from Sunday's presidential election. (AP Photo/Luis Romero, File)

Salvadoran military stays out of election dispute

Marcos Aleman · March 13, 2014 12:04 am

Conservatives march to demand recount in Salvador

Marcos Aleman · March 11, 2014 11:02 pm

Supporters of Norman Quijano, presidential candidate for the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), protest alleged electoral fraud in front of the Attorney Generals office in San Salvador, El Salvador, Monday, March 10, 2014. El Salvador's too-close-to-call presidential runoff election has raised competing claims of victory from Salvador Sanchez Ceren, a former fighter for leftist guerrillas and Norman Quijano, the candidate of the once long-ruling conservative party that fought a civil war from 1980 to 1992. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

El Salvador waits final count in presidential vote

Marcos Aleman · March 11, 2014 12:11 am

El Salvador’s presidential election remains close

Marcos Aleman · March 10, 2014 12:17 am

El Salvador’s ex-rebel poised to win presidency

Marcos Aleman · March 8, 2014 12:01 am

Jose Salvador Alvarenga, a fisherman who says he drifted at sea for more than a year surviving on raw fish, turtles and bird blood is embraced by his parents, Ricardo Orellana, right, and Maria Julia Alvarenga during a news conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Alvarenga, 37, underwent a battery of tests after returning home from the Marshall Islands, where he showed up after what he has described as 6,500-mile (10,500-kilometer) journey from Mexico that began when his small fishing boat was thrown off course by bad weather. Alvarenga said he wouldn't be returning to his hometown of Garita Palmera, but he did not say where he was headed. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Salvadoran sea survivor leaves hospital

Marcos Aleman · February 19, 2014 4:27 am