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2005 May 20 |
Hurricane Adrian slammed into El Salvador, unleashing torrential rains in an area prone to devastating floods and forcing some 14,000 people to seek higher ground. Links: El Salvador, Hurricane 
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2005 May 25 |
A new plaza on San Salvador's Jerusalem Avenue was inaugurated in honor of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Migrants from Palestine flowed to El Salvador for decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and several families became prominent in business and politics. Links: El Salvador, Palestine, Migrant
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2005 Jun 26 |
Heavy rains caused flooding and landslides in El Salvador and Honduras, leaving a total of 39 dead in both countries, including 21 people killed when a bus was carried away by flood waters. Links: El Salvador, Honduras, Tragedy, Flood
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2005 Jun 30 |
In Honduras Central American leaders agreed to create a regional special forces unit to fight drug trafficking, gang violence and terrorism within their borders. The 2-day regional meeting included the presidents of Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Links: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico, Drugs, Dominican Rep.
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2005 Jul 27 |
The US House approved the Central America trade pact, CAFTA, 217-215. It is aimed at reducing trade barriers among the US, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Links: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, USA, Dominican Rep.
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2005 Aug 11 |
El Salvador sent its fifth contingent of 380 soldiers to Iraq for humanitarian missions. President Tony Saca said it was in the same spirit as the countries that helped El Salvador during its 12-year civil war. Links: Iraq, El Salvador
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2005 Sep 6 |
Dominican Republic legislators overwhelmingly approved a free-trade agreement with the US and five Central American countries, rejecting arguments that the pact would devastate the domestic sugar industry. The other five countries are Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Costa Rica and Nicaragua had not yet ratified the pact. Links: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, USA, Dominican Rep.
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2005 Sep 8 |
El Salvador said that “Operation International” simultaneous raids this week in El Salvador, the US, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico netted 660 dangerous gang members. Links: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, USA, Mexico
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2005 Oct 1 |
A volcano in western El Salvador erupted, sending a column of ash 50,000 feet into the air and killing two farmers buried by chunks of earth and boiling water that tumbled down the slopes. Links: El Salvador, Volcano
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2005 Oct 3 |
In El Salvador heavy rains triggered landslides that killed at least 31 people, while rising rivers forced the evacuation of dozens of people there and in neighboring Guatemala. Links: El Salvador, Guatemala, WeatherCA
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2005 Oct 5 |
Hurricane Stan knocked down trees, ripped roofs off homes and washed out bridges in southeastern Mexico, but it was the storms it helped spawn that were far more destructive, killing more than 65 people in Central America. Officials in El Salvador said 49 people had been killed, mostly due to two days of mudslides sparked by rains. 9 people died in Nicaragua, including six migrants believed to be Ecuadorians killed in a boat accident. Four deaths were reported in Honduras, three in Guatemala and one in Costa Rica. Links: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Mexico, WeatherCA, Hurricane, Migrant
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2005 Oct 6 2005 Oct 8 |
In Guatemala rescue workers searched for victims of a mudslide near Lake Atitlan, a volcano-ringed lake popular with tourists. Panabaj and Tzanchaz were entombed by a mudflow half a mile wide. The death toll in the region from flooding sparked by Hurricane Stan soon climbed to 617 with 42 dead in Mexico, 72 dead in El Salvador and 11 dead in Nicaragua. Links: El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Hurricane
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2005 Oct 29 |
Salvadoran President Tony Saca urged Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to support his request to President Bush to allow undocumented Salvadorans to remain in the US while the country recovers from Hurricane Stan. Links: El Salvador, USA, California
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2005 Nov 18 |
A federal jury in Tennessee held that Nicolas Carranza (72), a former Salvadoran colonel, was responsible for murder and torture during the 1980s civil war in El Salvador and ordered him to pay $6 million in damages to his accusers. Links: El Salvador, USA, Tennessee, Lawsuit
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2005 Dec 31 |
El Salvador's 22 penitentiaries, designed to house 7,370 inmates, were packed with more than 12,500 prisoners. Links: El Salvador
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2006 Jan 1 |
The Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) failed to start due to legal and regulatory reforms. Juan Carlos Paiz of the Guatemalan Union of Nontraditional Products blamed the US in large part for the delay, saying Washington was requiring too much of its poorer partners. The 6 participating nations included, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua, Links: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, USA, Dominican Rep.
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2006 Jan 4 |
A US federal appeals court in Atlanta reinstated a $54.6 million verdict against two retired Salvadoran generals, Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova (67), and Jose Guillermo Garcia (72), accused of torture during the civil war (1980-1992) in their home country. Links: El Salvador, USA
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2006 Jan 24 |
Shafik Handal (75), leader of the Salvadoran left, died of a heart attack in San Salvador. The ex-guerrilla commander had fought US-backed troops during the country's 12-year civil war. Links: El Salvador
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2006 Feb 6 |
El Salvador said it will send another contingent of 380 soldiers to Iraq, making it the country's sixth group to serve six-month rotations in the war-torn nation. Links: Iraq, El Salvador
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2006 Feb 28 |
In El Salvador thousands of street vendors, university students and labor unionists marched in San Salvador against a regional free trade accord with the US, which they say will hurt small businesses and organized labor. Links: El Salvador, USA
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2006 Mar 1 |
El Salvador became the first Central American nation to join a regional free trade agreement with the United States. Links: El Salvador, USA
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2006 Mar 12 |
El Salvador held elections. The next day the conservative ruling party claimed several victories over former leftist rebels in elections for congressional seats and mayorships across the country. Links: El Salvador
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2006 Mar 20 |
Venezuela agreed to sell fuel under preferential terms to an El Salvador association created by a group of leftist mayors. Links: El Salvador, Venezuela
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2006 May 16 |
Scientists warned that tropical forests, which house El Salvador's famed coffee plantations and provide habitat for migrating birds, are being depleted at an alarming rate. Links: El Salvador, Environment, Coffee, Birds
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2006 Jul 5 |
In El Salvador violence broke out after police fired tear gas to disperse students protesting against a hike in electricity rates and public transportation fees. Two officers were killed and 10 others were wounded by gunshots. The next day police arrested Luis Antonio Herrador Funes (37), who allegedly was captured on tape shielding a man who was shooting an M-16 rifle. Police were still looking for the shooter. Links: El Salvador
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2006 Jul 11 |
Central American presidents agreed on a plan to ease border controls and install a common customs system on the way to negotiating an eventual free-trade agreement with the EU. The agreement signed by Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Belize would allow residents to cross borders without passports or visas. Links: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
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2006 Jul 27 |
In Iraq a rocket and mortar barrage followed by a car bomb blasted an upscale, mostly Shiite district of Baghdad, killing 32 people and wounding 153. 4 US Marines died in action in western Anbar province. A Salvadoran soldier was killed in Iraq, the 2nd soldier from El Salvador to be killed in the conflict in 8 days. Armed men in Iraqi army uniforms and driving Iraqi army vehicles stole $1.35 million in Iraqi currency in West Baghdad. Gunmen killed 3 men working for a foreign security company in Baghdad’s Mansour neighborhood. The bodies of at least 19 men, shot in the head and bearing signs of torture, were found in various parts of Baghdad. Links: Iraq, El Salvador, USA, Robbery
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2006 Sep 5 |
Cellular telephones were found inside four prisoners in El Salvador's maximum-security prison after suspicious officials took X-rays of each of the inmates. Links: El Salvador, Telecom
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2006 Oct 18 |
El Salvador’s Pres. Antonio Saca pledged to support Taiwan's bid to join world bodies and called for a free trade agreement between the two countries. El Salvador is one of only 24 countries that affords Taiwan diplomatic recognition over the island's rival China. Links: El Salvador, Taiwan
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2007 Jan 4 |
Victor Ramirez (27), a day laborer from El Salvador, was gunned down by 2 black teenagers in Richmond, Ca. Ramirez was taken off life support after 2 weeks and died Jan 19. Links: El Salvador, USA, Murder, SF Bay Area, Robbery
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2007 Jan 6 |
Riots erupted overnight in a maximum-security prison in western El Salvador, leaving 21 inmates dead. Links: El Salvador
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2007 Feb 14 |
Mexican immigration agents allegedly locked 10 Guatemalan and two Salvadoran migrants in a trailer after they refused to pay a bribe against of $110 each. In late 2008 the country's National Human Rights Commission called for a government investigation. Links: El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Govm’t Scandal
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2007 Feb 19 |
Police found the charred bodies of three Salvadoran representatives to the Central American Parliament and their driver on a rural road outside Guatemala City. Links: El Salvador, Guadeloupe
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2007 Feb 22 |
In Guatemala a top police official and three other officers were arrested in the killings of three Central American Parliament members, including the son of the alleged founder of El Salvador's death squads. Links: El Salvador, Guatemala
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2007 Feb 28 |
The fifth of six former Guatemalan police officers suspected in the killings of three Salvadoran politicians and their driver turned himself. Prosecutors said the ex-officer allegedly bought the gasoline used to burn the victims. Links: El Salvador, Guatemala, Murder
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2007 Mar 12 |
Israel confirmed that it has recalled Tsuriel Raphael, its ambassador to El Salvador, after he was found naked, bound and drunk two weeks earlier. Links: El Salvador, Israel
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2007 Mar 20 |
Guatemala police arrested 4 people on suspicion of being among those who orchestrated the killings of three Salvadoran politicians and their driver in Feb 19. Links: El Salvador, Guatemala
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2007 Mar 26 |
Four children and Pedro Rodriguez (28), their father, were found dead in the family's home in Frederick, Maryland. The mother Deysi M. Benitez (25) was missing. Her sister from El Salvador said she had been beaten by her husband and wanted to separate. Police concluded he had smothered the girls and killed the boy with a blow to the head, and then killed himself. The body of his wife, Deysi Benitez (25), an immigrant from El Salvador, was found Feb 29, 2008, 20 miles from their home in Frederick. Links: El Salvador, USA, Maryland, Murder, Kids
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2007 Mar 30 |
In El Salvador Maria Julia Hernandez (b.1939), a renowned human rights activist, died of a heart attack. She had aided victims of El Salvador's civil war. Links: El Salvador
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2008 Jul 3 |
In El Salvador a bus carrying members of an evangelical church was swept off a bridge in San Salvador. 29 bodies were recovered the next day. Links: El Salvador, Tragedy, Bus Crash
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2008 Dec 23 |
El Salvador’s President Tony Saca announced he will withdraw Salvadoran troops from Iraq after Dec. 31, pulling out the only remaining soldiers from Latin America. Links: Iraq, El Salvador
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2009 Jan 18 |
In El Salvador polls ahead of six-party elections indicated the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a former guerrilla group known as the FMLN, will increase its 32-seat plurality in the 84-member legislature while winning the capital and most of the 262 mayors races up for grabs. Links: El Salvador
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2009 Jan 19 |
El Salvador's chief leftist party lost its stronghold in the capital but was winning the most seats in the Legislative Assembly. Links: El Salvador
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2009 Jan 24 |
In El Salvador final results showed that the former leftist rebels won more seats than any other party in legislative elections but fell short of a majority. Links: El Salvador
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2009 Jan 28 |
El Salvador police said they found the remains of what they believe to be eight to 10 gang victims at the bottom of a well in Tonacatepeque, located outside San Salvador. Links: El Salvador
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2009 Mar 15 |
El Salvador's entrenched conservatives faced a stiff challenge from the party of former guerrillas in presidential elections. Mauricio Funes (b.1959), a leftist television journalist, made history by bringing the FMLN, a party of former guerrillas, to power for the first time since the end of a bloody civil war. Funes won 51.3% to 48.7% for Rodrigo Avila. Links: El Salvador
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2009 Mar 18 |
Costa Rica said it will re-establish diplomatic ties with Cuba, and El Salvador's new president-elect, Mauricio Funes, promised to do the same after he takes office. Links: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Cuba
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2009 May 31 |
El Salvador’s President-elect Mauricio Funes appointed his wife and a former Marxist guerrilla to Cabinet posts just hours before starting his five-year term. Links: El Salvador
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2009 Jun 1 |
In El Salvador Mauricio Funes, a journalist from a party of former Marxist guerrillas, became the country's first leftist president, immediately restoring ties with Cuba while promising to remain friendly with the United States. Links: El Salvador, Cuba
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2009 Jul 27 |
El Salvador announced a decision to close schools nationwide for two weeks to combat the spread of swine flu. El Salvador has already confirmed 545 cases of swine flu, including seven deaths. Links: El Salvador, Microbiology
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2009 Sep 2 |
In El Salvador Christian Poveda (52), a French filmmaker who recently made a documentary about the lives of members of El Salvador's street gangs, was found shot dead in Tonacatepeque, a rural region north of San Salvador. Earlier this year, Poveda, made the documentary "La Vida Loca," which follows the lives of members La 18 street gang and received widespread attention in El Salvador. 4 Mara 18 members and a policeman were soon detained. On Dec 16 police arrested 10 more members of the Mara 18 gang. 9 other gang members already in prison have also been charged in the case. On Mar 9, 2011 a court sentenced 10 gang members and a police officer to prison terms ranging from four to 30 years. 20 additional defendants were acquitted, but 17 of them were serving time for other crimes. Links: El Salvador, Murder, Drugs, Film
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2009 Sep 6 |
The El Salvador navy said it has found 76 migrants aboard a boat in the Pacific. They included 25 Bangladeshis, 25 Nepalese, 21 Eritreans and five Ecuadoreans. The boat had set sail a week ago from the Ecuadorean port of Manta. Links: El Salvador, Ecuador, Migrant
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2009 Sep 9 |
Salvadoran authorities said they had arrested 4 alleged Mara 18 gang members and a police officer in the Sep 2 slaying of French documentary filmmaker Christian Poveda. The arrested officer was identified as Jose Napoleon Espinoza, an agent assigned to the 911 emergency phone system in Soyapango outside the capital, San Salvador. Links: El Salvador, Corruption
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2009 Nov 4 |
El Salvador's defense minister said the army will send an additional 2,500 soldiers to crime-plagued parts of the country to increase security. In the first 10 months of the year, there were 3,673 homicides in El Salvador, up from 3,179 in all of 2008. Many killings involved street gangs. Links: El Salvador
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2009 Nov 8 |
In El Salvador a wave of floods and landslides killed at least 192 people following three days of heavy rains. Dozens of people were missing in a mudslide that swept down on the town of in Verapaz. Hurricane Ida's presence in the western Caribbean late last week may have played a role in drawing the rain-packed Pacific low-pressure system toward El Salvador. Links: El Salvador, Tragedy, Hurricane, Flood
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El Salvador counted 6,587 gang-related killings for the year. Links: El Salvador
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2010 Jan 23 |
In southern Mexico about 150 migrants were pulled off a train by unidentified assailants in the state of Oaxaca. On Jan 26 a Salvadoran official filed a complaint with Mexican officials saying 3 men were slain and 4 women were raped in the attack. Links: El Salvador, Mexico, Rape, Migrant
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2010 Mar 24 |
El Salvador President Mauricio Funes publicly apologized on behalf of the state for the 1980 assassination of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Funes said Romero was killed by right-wing death squads "who unfortunately acted with the protection, collaboration or participation of state agents." Links: El Salvador
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2010 Apr 14 |
El Salvador President Mauricio Funes said Mexico's Zeta drug gang has entered El Salvador and has made contact with local gangs in what appears to be an exploration of opportunities. Links: El Salvador, Mexico
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2010 Apr 23 |
In El Salvador gunmen shot and seriously wounded First Secretary Guillermo Medina Alfaro, a Mexican diplomat who worked with the international police agency Interpol. Police said the diplomat's wife was killed. Links: El Salvador, Mexico, Murder
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