El Salvador News

The mission is to clear militants from an area to secure a planned road tha4 would move supplies to neighboring Pakistan.

Editor's Note: Today marks the 20th anniversary of the murder of six Jesuit priests, their cook and her daughter -- a turning point in El Salvador's civil war.

The owners of Anita's Mexican Grill are again cooking up aid for victims of natural disaster in their native El Salvador.

Floods and mudslides caused by heavy rains washed out roads and bridges around the country Nov.

The town of San Vicente, was buried in mud and stones from the slopes of the Chinchontepec volcano.

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Manuela Balenciaga, center, and Antonio Ellacuria, right, relatives of slain Jesuit priest Ignacio Ellacuria hold a medal given to them by El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes, left, during a ceremony to conmemorate the 20th anniversary of the killing of Jesuit priests in El Salvador, Monday, Nov.

The death toll from last week's floods in El Salvador has reached 192, with 80 people still missing, the national emergency management office said on Sunday.

Manuel de Jesus Moran Hidalgo, Assistant Director of Caritas in El Salvador, said in a press conference that we are all called to help our brethren, especially in these times of need: 'As Archbishop Romero said, they are brothers whose cries reach heaven, and we must offer them human and material aid.' Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez, at the same press ...

Ann Legg and Lois Johnson play duets as part of the concert for Chilama event Saturday at Stage Left Cafe in Woodstock.

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Thousands of people have been displaced after the storm hit the country last weekend.

At least 130 people have been killed in floods and mudslides in El Salvador. The deaths occurred during Hurricane Ida which caused mudslides around local villages.

For those who are reading Michael Sherer's entertaining account of his road trip to El Salvador in the national edition of examiner.com, might be reminded that there is another, darker side to El Salvador, rooted in its recent history, and exemplified in the infamous El Mozote massacre that took place in 1981 when El Salvadoran armed forces killed ...

San Salvador, Nov 12 Venezuela sent humanitarian aid to El Salvador devastated by heavy rain and mudslides, which so far left 157 dead, 58 missing and 14,000 victims.

Hurricane Ida hit El Salvador last weekend which triggered flooding and massive landslides.

San Salvador, Nov 10 El Salvador's Legislative Assembly decreed national mourning as of Tuesday for the death of 140 people, due to the rains of Tropical Storm Ida.

The official death toll from the floods caused by torrential rains last weekend stands at 157, with 14,166 people still in shelters, the emergency management office said Thursday.

Torrential rain is continuing to lash Central America as El Salvador attempts to handle the fallout from days of devastating floods and mudslides as the death toll rises to 130.