Salvadoran soccer players suspected of fixing matches 23 Aug 2013 | 09:31 pm

Twenty-two players from El Salvador's national football (soccer) team have been suspended for suspicion of involvement with fixing international matches.   From an AP report: El Salvador authorities ...

Still looking for a law to protect El Salvador's water resources 23 Aug 2013 | 03:22 am

Today activists took to the streets of El Salvador yet again to demand that the National Assembly approve a proposed national water law designed to protect El Salvador's endangered water resources. ....

$25M loan for tourism development 22 Aug 2013 | 06:58 am

The InterAmerican Development Bank (IADB) announced this week a loan to El Salvador to use for tourism development along the country's Pacific coast.   From the IADB press release: El Salvador’s Mi.....

Pursuing justice 30 years later 21 Aug 2013 | 08:29 am

One of El Salvador's top military leaders during the Salvadoran civil war faces sentencing for immigration violations in the US, and potential extradition to Spain to face trial for the murder of the ...

1946 El Salvador 18 Aug 2013 | 09:31 pm

The Human Studies Film Archive at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. has recently posted several clips of film footage from cities in El Salvador dating back to 1946.  The clips are from Thayer Soule...

Ongoing criticism of P3 law 16 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm

A new article written by Lily Moodey at the Council of Hemispheric Affairs, looks at the continuing opposition to the Public Private Partnership Law (3P) by labor, environmental and civil society grou...

Gang members talk about truce 15 Aug 2013 | 02:12 am

The Center for Democracy in the Americas has published a video of interviews with gang leaders in El Salvador's prisons talking about the gang truce.  According to CDA: During a recent research trip,...

Economics and the mining struggle in El Salvador 14 Aug 2013 | 08:21 am

There were a few victories claimed by the anti-mining movement in El Salvador in the past few weeks.  Those victories are more about economics than about the environmental impact of gold mining. Yes....

Word cloud 13 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm

Politics threaten the gang truce 11 Aug 2013 | 11:51 pm

One of the major threats to turning the process called the "tregua" or the truce among the gangs in El Salvador into a durable reduction in crime and violence, is election politics in El Salvador.   A...