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tin tin's adventures in el salvador - Suchitoto, El Salvador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:49:29 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Suchitoto, El Salvador Well, I had a week off because a job pushed, so rather than sit on my ever so cute butt, I decided I needed a holiday. Ok, everyone, shut up, I know I just got back... Anyhoo! As part of my master plan to conquer the world I wanted to explore a small country that wouldn´t take too long. El Salvador seemed to...

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El Salvador River Sweeps Bus off Bridge, Killing 29 (Get Mash)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:20:17 GMT

Rescue crews recovered 29 bodies Friday from a raging, rain-fed river that swept a bus carrying members of an evangelical church off a bridge in San Salvador. Read the full story

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El Salvador river swallows bus; dozens die (CNN)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:47:41 GMT

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El Salvador river sweeps bus off bridge, killing 29 (LA Times)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:04:00 GMT

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Rescue crews recovered 29 bodies today from a raging, rain-fed river that swept a bus carrying members of an evangelical church off a bridge in El Salvador's capital.Crews were still looking for at least one other person believed aboard the bus when it was carried away by the Acelhuate river in southern San Salvador Thursday night, said Raul Murillo, spokesman...

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Heavy rains kill 15 in El Salvador (Alertnet)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:06:26 GMT

Source: Reuters SAN SALVADOR, July 4 (Reuters) - At least 15 people died and 28 others were missing after intense rains in El Salvador, which swept a passenger bus into a river on the edge of the capital, rescue ...

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Latin American Political Update - Canadians beat the Dominican Republic to remain undefeated at 3-0 (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News) (Global Politics Online)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:20:29 GMT

Canadians beat the Dominican Republic to remain undefeated at 3-0 (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News) SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Canada’s Junior Men’s volleyball squad remain undefeated in the preliminary round of the 2008 NORDECA Junior Men’s Championship on Wednesday. PARAGUAY: Fourteen Years in the Wilderness POZO COLORADO, Paraguay, Jul [...]

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Who’s a “real woman” anyway? (Feministe)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:01:16 GMT

How many times have you heard some idiot say something like, “man, I hate American chicks, might as well go to Thailand/El Salvador/Moldova, that’s where the REAL WOMEN are at.” Now, we all know what he probably means here - women who are at a similar economic level are not submissive enough, and women who [...]

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FBI — Targeting street Gangs in their birthplace (ClearysNoteBook)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:42:00 GMT

Link: FBI — San Salvador - Press Room - Headline Archives 07-03-08. One of our major domestic crime challenges involves violent street gangs with global ties—in particular, MS-13 and the 18th Street Gang. Within the...

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Europe and U.S. Equally Cruel to Migrant Workers (The Moderate Voice)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:57:06 GMT

It used to be that Latin Americans viewed Europe as far more humane than the United States because of the way undocumented workers there were treated. No more … According to this editorial from Diario Co Latino of El Salvador: “According to news coming from the Old Continent, a law passed by the European Parliament on the 18th of this month not only permits the expulsion of undocumented immigrants,...

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Gold mining company Pacific Rim cuts operations in El Salvador (Tim's El Salvador Blog)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:27:00 GMT

Canadian gold mining company, Pacific Rim is blaming an anti-mining atmosphere and politics for its decision to suspend drilling operations and lay off workers in El Salvador according to reports today: TORONTO, July 3 ( Reuters ) - Pacific Rim Mining has cut its work force and suspended drilling in El Salvador due to frustration over a lengthy permitting process for its El Dorado gold...

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Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: Social Perceptions in Everyday Life (Human Security Gateway: All Updates)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:56 GMT

... all society members are calling for law and order and social segregation. Focusing on Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, the paper analyzes the social perception of violence and crime. On the basis of essays written by secondary school students and interviews with citizens from all walks of life in the three countries, the paper points out how elite arguments on violence and crime are...

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Central American leaders denounce new EU immigration rules (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:38:27 GMT

Posted on Sat, Jun. 28, 2008 Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Leaders from Central America and the Dominican Republic have denounced new European Union rules for expelling illegal immigrants, joining a rising chorus of Latin American countries to oppose the regulations. Gathered for a regional summit in El Salvador, presidents said they were ”profoundly concerned” that the rules could jeopardize...

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Documenting The Undocumented: Donna DeCesare and Jeff Solomon (Firedoglake)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:31:53 GMT

Photojournalist Donna DeCesare and playwright Jeff Solomon are two extraordinary chroniclers of our times. Each uses the power of their art and reporting to amplify the voices of people under seige. DeCesare covered the war in El Salvador in the 1980s and was moved by scenes of devastation and was deeply affected by the impact of trauma on children. In her recent exhibit, Sharing Secrets , she...

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Pacific Rim Mining Corp.: Pacific Rim Suspends Further Drilling in El Salvador Until Mining Permit Granted; Local Staffing Reduced (Market Wire)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Pacific Rim Mining Corp. ("Pacific Rim" or "the Company") (TSX: PMU)(AMEX: PMU) has taken the first steps toward reducing its El Salvador work force in preparation for a slow down in exploration and investment activity on its El Dorado, Santa Rita and Zamora-Cerro Colorado gold projects in El Salvador. As the El Dorado drilling program consumed...

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Crime statistics (Tim's El Salvador Blog)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I used to blog almost monthly about murder statistics in El Salvador. I stopped doing it so regularly because (a) it was depressing and (b) some criticized me for giving El Salvador a bad name and potentially scaring off people who might want to visit. Still, since violent crime is one of the number one worries of Salvadorans, it worth looking at the most recent statistics, as published...

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10% of Virginians are foreign-born. (Waldo Jaquith)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:50:36 GMT

UVa’s Weldon Cooper Center (disclaimer: my wife’s employer) has found that 10% of Virginians are immigrants. The top five countries of origin are El Salvador, Mexico, Korea, the Philippines, and India. What must Virginia Republicans think of this demographic shift? Well, to quote Grandpa, from The Boondocks: I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you over the [...]

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Juayua - Juayua, El Salvador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:33:17 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Juayua, El Salvador After a very brief stay in Santa Ana I took an hour bus ride to the quaint town of Juayua. It's a pretty ride along Ruta de Floras, although most of the flowers were not in bloom, you still go through green mountains and coffee plantations. I could see the big white church of Juaya from quite a distance as it sticks out from...

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In El Salvador, journalist may lead leftists to center stage (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:13:09 GMT

... conservative country. The 48-year-old television journalist, a newcomer to politics, has jolted El Salvador by grabbing a sizable early lead in the race as the candidate of the leftist group that fought a guerrilla war in the country two decades ago. A victory for Funes would represent a historic breakthrough for his party, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, and for...

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Antigua - Santa Ana - Santa Ana, El Salvador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:07:32 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Santa Ana, El Salvador I had about 5 days to kill before my friend came to Guatemala and I couldn't do some of the fun stuff that he wants to do so I was debating how to spend my time. I thought about heading deeper into the Guatemala highlands into Maya country, but that would be cold. I thought about going to some run of the mill Guatemala town...

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6 - Metapan, El Salvador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:12:01 GMT

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