Tag: El Salvador

El Salvador evacuates 1,000 people near volcano

Washington Examiner · May 20, 2014 1:29 am

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2005 file photo, former President of El Salvador Francisco Flores announces his candidacy for Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) at the presidential house in San Salvador, El Salvador. El Salvador's top prosecutors are seeking on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 the arrest of Flores, who is accused of embezzlement, illegal enrichment and disobedience. (AP Photo/Luis Romero, File)

El Salvador seeks ex-president’s arrest

Washington Examiner · May 1, 2014 7:37 pm

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

Sea survivor Jose Salvador Alvarenga, center, embraces his mother Maria Julia, after they arrive at the airport in Mexico City, Friday, March 14, 2014. The Salvadoran fisherman, who was lost at sea for 13 months, traveled from El Salvador with his parents to Mexico to fulfill a promise he made to his dead sea mate, Mexican Ezequiel Cordoba. Alvarenga said Cordoba died a month into their ordeal because he couldn't stomach the diet of raw fish, turtles and birds. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Salvadoran sea survivor meets companion’s mother

Manuel De, La Cruz · March 15, 2014 6:10 pm

Sea survivor Jose Salvador Alvarenga, center, embraces his mother Maria Julia, after they arrive at the airport in Mexico City, Friday, March 14, 2014. The Salvadoran fisherman, who was lost at sea for 13 months, traveled from El Salvador with his parents to Mexico to fulfill a promise he made to his dead sea mate, Mexican Ezequiel Cordoba. Alvarenga said Cordoba died a month into their ordeal because he couldn't stomach the diet of raw fish, turtles and birds. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Salvadoran castaway in Mexico to fulfill promise

Eduardo Castillo · March 14, 2014 11:26 pm

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

Salvador’s top court orders massacre probe

Washington Examiner · February 7, 2014 2:40 am