RIGHTS: Guatemala, El Salvador Ordered to Heed Rulings
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Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR, Mar 12 (IPS) – Guatemala and El Salvador have a terrible record in terms of compliance with the recommendations and sentences handed down by the inter-American human rights bodies on cases involving appalling abuses like forced disappearance, torture and massacres committed during the armed conflicts [...]
EL SALVADOR: More Troops on the Streets to Fight Crime
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Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR, Nov 13 (IPS) – José, a 46-year-old street vendor in the Salvadoran capital, says he is happy that the leftist government of Mauricio Funes decided to put more army troops on the streets to help fight the soaring levels of crime.
”For a long time [...]
EL SALVADOR: Nature Takes Advantage of Unlearned Lessons
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Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR, Nov 9 (IPS) – Cruz Ayala, 55, weeps inconsolably over the bodies of his 71-year-old mother, Catalina, and his 15-year-old niece Carolina outside of a chapel in the town of Verapaz in the central Salvadoran province of San Vicente.
The two were among the people [...]
EL SALVADOR: Clandestine Graves Are Back
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Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR, Oct 29 (IPS) – Spatula in hand, forensic scientist Israel Ticas carefully excavates a decomposed human foot protruding from a shallow grave in rough terrain in the mountains of Las Crucitas, close to Ciudad Arce in the west-central Salvadoran province of La Libertad.
Other body [...]
EL SALVADOR: Leftist Govt Clamps Down on Corruption
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Raúl Gutiérrez
SAN SALVADOR, Jun 23 (IPS) – Serious allegations of corruption involving central figures in the government of right-wing former Salvadoran president Antonio Saca (2004-2009) will be investigated by a commission led by Finance Minister Carlos Cáceres.
Left-wing President Mauricio Funes, who took office on Jun. 1, announced [...]
EL SALVADOR: New President Promises to Beat Poverty
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Raúl Gutiérrez
SAN SALVADOR, Jun 1 (IPS) – At his inaugural ceremony Monday, the first-ever leftwing president of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, said his main goal was to ”beat poverty, political backwardness, the marginalisation of broad sections of society, desperation, and the lack of future prospects for our young people.”
