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Jose Salvador Alvarenga, who lies on a stretcher in an ambulance is interviewed by reporters as he arrives at the hospital in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. The 37-year-old, who says he survived more than a year on a small boat drifting from Mexico across the Pacific Ocean to the Marshall Islands, arrived in his native El Salvador late Tuesday. Alvarenga was reportedly arrived at the hospital for medical evaluation before returning to his home village of Garita Palmera. (AP Photo/La Prensa Grafica) EL SALVADOR OUT - NO PUBLICAR EN EL SALVADOR

Long journey ends at home for man drifting at sea

Marcos Aleman · February 12, 2014 2:45 pm

Jose Salvador Alvarenga holds a microphone intending to speak, after arriving at the airport in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. Alvarenga was wheeled in a wheelchair before a crush of more than 100 mostly foreign journalists. But when handed the microphone, he held it in silence. The 37-year-old, who says he survived more than a year on a small boat drifting from Mexico across the Pacific Ocean to the Marshall Islands, arrived in his native El Salvador late Tuesday. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Man adrift months at sea returns to El Salvador

Marcos Aleman · February 12, 2014 5:10 am

Fishermen untangle a fishnet in the hometown of sea survivor Jose Salvador Alvarenga, Garita Palmera, El Salvador, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Alvarenga's survival after more than 13 months in an open boat has proven a double miracle for his family, who lost touch with him years ago and thought he was dead. Alvarenga says he left Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ended up on the remote Marshall Islands. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Survivor story highlights Mexico’s fishing methods

Marcos Aleman · February 6, 2014 1:58 am

Johnny Araya, presidential candidate for the National Liberation Party, PLN, waves to supporters outside a polling station, after voting in the general election in San Jose, Costa Rica, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. The ruling PLN has been beset by infighting and corruption allegations and Araya, now faces three rivals, which experts say could splinter Sunday's vote. Araya, who has been the mayor of the capital of San Jose since 2003, must overcome the discontent over high unemployment during President Laura Chinchilla's government. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Salvadoran leftist leads vote, but faces runoff

Marcos Aleman · February 3, 2014 11:06 pm

An election officer shows a ballot in front volounteers from the ruling the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, (FMLN) and Nationalist Republican Alliance, or ARENA, during during the vote count at a polling station in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. Presidential elections in two Central American countries are both referendums on political stagnation, with voters in Costa Rica deciding whether to oust the long-ruling party, and voters in El Salvador deciding whether to bring it back to power. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

President runoffs seen for El Salvador, Costa Rica

Marcos Aleman · February 3, 2014 5:08 am

Ill woman denied abortion recovers after C-section

Marcos Aleman · June 4, 2013 10:58 pm

Ill Salvadoran woman denied abortion has C-section

Marcos Aleman · June 4, 2013 3:15 am

C-section OKed for pregnant woman in El Salvador

Marcos Aleman · May 30, 2013 11:18 pm

El Salvador court rules no abortion for ill woman

Marcos Aleman · May 30, 2013 2:02 am

A member of the Mara Salvatrucha, MS, works in a carpentry workshop where a wall is decorated by a mural of the Virgin of Guadalupe inside the San Pedro Sula prison in Honduras, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Honduras' largest and most dangerous street gangs have declared a truce, offering the government peace in exchange for rehabilitation and jobs. A Mara Salvatrucha gang spokesman says the gang and its rival, 18th Street, will commit to zero violence and zero crime in the streets as first step show of good faith. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Terror remains for Salvadorans despite gang truce

Marcos Aleman · May 29, 2013 4:00 am

El Salvador court hears arguments in abortion case

Marcos Aleman · May 15, 2013 9:08 pm

El Salvador gangs say permanent truce possible

Marcos Aleman · June 20, 2012 3:00 am