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The Economist
March 9, 2018
The right-wing opposition party, the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), had a clear lead in valid votes. It won nine out of 14 major mayorships, including San Salvador, the national capital, and 37 of 84 seats in the national assembly. Arena's chairman said its success was a prelude to victory in nextÃÂ ...
Washington Blade
March 8, 2018
“As a citizen, as a person, as a Salvadoran, it is a right that we have to be part of this,” he said, referring to the country's political process. Sunday's ... Members of El Salvador's two main political parties hung these flags and banners outside a polling place in San Salvador, El Salvador, on March 4, 2018.
Newsweek
March 8, 2018
D'Aubuisson eventually founded the Nationalist Republican Alliance, a conservative political party that governed El Salvador from 1989 until 2009, and which continues to exist in the country today. Pope Francis is generally critical of leftist movements in Latin America, but he appears to have looked pastÃÂ ...
PanAm Post
March 7, 2018
President Sanchez Ceren's party suffered a stinging defeat in recent El Salvador elections (PanAm Post). As the polls predicted, the Salvadorian electorate punished the ruling Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) party, granting an important victory to the opposition, the ARENA party, andÃÂ ...
NACLA
March 2, 2018
An onslaught of conservative rulings by the Supreme Court in El Salvador threatens the 2018 mid-term elections—and the very fabric of the nation's ... that haunts recent Salvadoran history—was plurality, political engagement, and checks and balances that ensured participation from all major parties.
LSE Latin America and Caribbean (blog)
March 1, 2018
El Salvador's legislative and municipal elections on Sunday, 4 March, 2018, kick off an election cycle that will stretch through to next year's presidential ballot. A desperate security situation, threats to Salvadoran migrants in the US, and a growing generation gap in traditional parties could mean a bumpyÃÂ ...
WTHR
November 29, 2017
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A court in El Salvador has found former President Mauricio Funes and his son guilty of illicit enrichment and ... Earlier this month, the House of Commons passed a motion by the opposition Labour Party calling for the analyses of 58 sectors of the economy to be ...
TRT World
November 29, 2017
El Salvador court finds ex-president Funes illegally enriched himself ... in 2009 and brought the party formed by a former leftist guerrilla group, ...
The Drive
November 28, 2017
Amid limited resources, a small team from El Salvador has been using the .... The two parties had intervened in Mali the year before, with ...
teleSUR English
November 17, 2017
Authorities in El Salvador arrested nearly 100 suspects in an anti-gang ... Shortly after the arrests were made, the Salvadoran Ministry of Justice ... a warning, calling on political parties to refrain from making ties with the gangs, ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
November 16, 2017
Salvadoran President Reaffirms Commitment to Advance Transitional Justice in El Salvador ... administration conducted by the ultra-conservative ARENA (Alianza Republicana Nacionalista) party through 2009 [iii] [iv] [v] [vi].
WBUR
November 16, 2017
Warren's Re-Election Is Switching Party Affiliation ... Both 18th Street and MS-13 have roots in El Salvador, where ongoing gang violence has ...
Chicago Tribune
November 15, 2017
Moreover, with bad interlocutors in Guatemala and El Salvador, losing ... hostile relationship to the Salvadoran private sector, which makes progress hard. ... Republican Alliance (ARENA) party is leading in the polls over leftist ...
Food and Water Watch
November 7, 2017
However, the right-wing party has been pushing legislation to privatize El Salvador's water service for years. They've had the votes to pass it.
Pacific Standard
October 25, 2017
Is Mara Salvatrucha, the Salvadoran youth gang menacing ... showed that El Salvador's two main political parties had colluded with MS-13 and ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
October 20, 2017
Ex-Salvadoran official asks Supreme Court to bar extradition ... with the killing of Jesuit priests, most of them Spaniards, in El Salvador in 1989. .... But Bannon, speaking to a capacity crowd at a California Republican Party convention, said ...
NACLA
October 20, 2017
More importantly, Salvadoran, Honduran, and Haitian TPS holders are ... El Salvador's right-wing party, the Nationalist Republican Alliance ...
225 Baton Rouge
October 18, 2017
We love to entertain, and October is one of our favorite months to plan a get-together. Whether we are having kids over before high school ...
Reno Gazette Journal
October 14, 2017
Several witnesses testified they saw Menendez-Cordero at the party. ... Luis Alejandro Menendez-Cordero was extradited from El Salvador in ...
La Croix International
October 12, 2017
Representatives of the Evangelical Church of El Salvador, backed by the ... Supported by Gallegos' conservative Gana party, the drive to ...
SFGate
October 11, 2017
Armando Calderon Sol, who served as president of El Salvador in the 1990s and ... belongs to his right-wing party, the Nationalist Republican Alliance, confirmed ... The United States spent $5 billion to buttress the Salvadoran ...
teleSUR English
October 11, 2017
The political party, first established as a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla ... The Salvadoran Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, FMLN, ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
September 21, 2017
Since 1998, El Salvador has upheld some of the strictest abortion laws in the ... Nacional, FMLN) – the country's dominant left-wing political party – introduced ... El Salvador's anti-abortion law, therefore, obstructs Salvadoran ...
Voice of America
September 14, 2017
A political delegation from El Salvador, led by its foreign minister, is meeting here ... protected status, or TPS, for roughly 200,000 Salvadoran nationals. ... Guillermo Gallegos, and representatives of several political parties.
WTHR
December 31, 1999
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Police in El Salvador have ... led Hernandez's own party to back a military coup in 2009 against a ...
Insightcrime.org
December 31, 1999
He and several other Salvadoran mayors were part of an initiative by ... has made Apopa a prize for El Salvador's two main political parties, ...
Gulf Digital News
December 31, 1999
Uber vows to abide by law in El Salvador after government warning ... Nelson Garcia warned the previous day that Salvadoran law does not ... Reyes from the conservative Republican Nationalist Alliance party proposed a bill ...
The Wire
December 31, 1999
El Salvador's Civil War Victims Demand Reparations ... The coffins of six children killed by the Salvadoran army in May 1982 are carried ... been debated in the single-chamber Legislative Assembly, and right-wing parties are ...
Jacobin magazine
December 31, 1999
Undocumented immigrants from El Salvador wait to be deported on an ... the party of the former leftist guerilla insurgency, forcing Salvadoran ...
Breaking Belize News (blog)
December 31, 1999
By BBN Staff: Belize and El Salvador have signed a Memorandum of ... which both parties will design, plan and coordinate the development of ...
Troy Record
August 26, 2017
On maps showing party affiliation, cities such as Dallas, Birmingham and ... including millennials, Salvadoran immigrants, government workersÃÂ ...
Anniston Star
August 25, 2017
On maps showing party affiliation, cities such as Dallas, Birmingham and ... including millennials, Salvadoran immigrants, government workersÃÂ ...
9NEWS.com
August 24, 2017
She fled El Salvador as a teenager. ... Church and Temple Micah threw Velasquez a welcome party of sorts but it was one she never wanted.
The Economist
August 24, 2017
FEW issues bedevil El Salvador more than how to deal with criminal gangs. ... left-wing FMLN and Arena, the right-wing opposition party.
Rewire
August 18, 2017
In filing the bill, Johnny Wright Sol has broken away from his party's absolute ... Abortion has been illegal under all circumstances in El Salvador since ... Wright Sol told the Salvadoran online publication El Faro, “I am in favorÃÂ ...
People's World
August 17, 2017
The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) ... Front (FMLN) won elections and is now the lead party in government.
The Times
August 11, 2017
A woman was phoning her friends. “Did you hear they finally killed that son of a bitch?” she asked. “We're going to have a party.” It was MarchÃÂ ...
Advocate.com
August 9, 2017
An immigrant from El Salvador and a Spanish speaker, Pedro recounted ... in another party at the restaurant glaring at him through the evening.
Frontera News
August 8, 2017
The embattled United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) government ... but Nicaragua, El Salvador, and various Caribbean countries are atÃÂ ...
PennLive.com
August 7, 2017
... Jeff Sessions speaks during a meeting with El Salvador Attorney General Douglas ... Such ardor is becoming the party's sovereign litmus test.
Los Angeles Times
July 30, 2017
A 19-year-old woman in El Salvador, Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz, was ... Since 2000, at least 35 Salvadoran women have been convicted of killing ... these right-wing political parties eventually collaborated to pass theÃÂ ...
The Guardian
July 25, 2017
Guerrilla fighters of the FMLN in 1983. The FMLN has been a legal political party since 1992 as part of the peace deal, and has been in powerÃÂ ...
Insightcrime.org
July 25, 2017
In a full legislative plenary session, El Salvador's political parties ... Apart from that, Salvadoran officials are exempt from the law, unless theyÃÂ ...
Belfast Newsletter
July 19, 2017
In January 1986 I travelled to El Salvador to take part in a march for ... Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during Prime Minister'sÃÂ ...
NBC 7 San Diego
July 9, 2017
Mexico beat El Salvador 3-1 and Jamaica beat Curacao 2-0 in two Gold Cup soccer matches on a warm summer evening at QualcommÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
March 28, 2017
From it we learn, for example, that Harry Truman reached the White House thanks to the ugly manipulations of Democratic Party bosses. The popular choice as Roosevelt's .... On Reagan's watch, death squads began operating in El Salvador, right-wing ...
Patch.com
March 28, 2017
Carrillo fled her home in El Salvador as a child, was raised in City Terrace, graduated from Roosevelt High School, received a bachelor's degree from Cal State Los Angeles and a master's degree from USC, according to biographical material supplied by ...
Triad City Beat
March 27, 2017
On March 24, the Triad City Beat team made a special accommodation for the guests at our third anniversary party in Winston-Salem to screen the Carolina game.
Staunton News Leader
March 27, 2017
The emoji appeared to be in reference to a previous discussion between Donovan and Jean Shrewsbury, the county commissioner of revenue, where Donovan made a historical reference to Hitler's treatment of minorities while telling Shrewsbury about gay men ...
GOPUSA
March 27, 2017
If it happens - or even if it didn't in fact happen - at a UVa fraternity, or at a Duke lacrosse party, it's very, very big news.
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