SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Rural schoolteacher turned rebel commander Salvador Sanchez Ceren was sworn in as president of El Salvador on Sunday, becoming the first former guerrilla will lead the ...

Former guerrilla commander Salvador Sanchez Ceren was sworn in Sunday as president of El Salvador with the pressing tasks of dealing with violent gangs, a struggling economy and endemic poverty.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Authorities declared El Salvador’s presidential runoff election too close to call late Sunday, with just a 0.2-percent margin separating a one-time Marxist guerrilla ...

The 1980s were a time of war in El Salvador. The government openly attacked its citizens. Repression. Murder. Massacres. Radio Venceremos broadcasted twice a day. And it was a voice of truth. A voice ...

El candidato izquierdista Mauricio Funes se imponía ayer en las elecciones en El Salvador, con 51,28% de los votos, según el cómputo de un tercio de las actas, informó la autoridad electoral, que ...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Con un periodista televisivo como candidato presidencial, la ex guerrilla de El Salvador se aleja de su pasado y está más cerca que nunca de seguir el camino de otras fuerzas ...

Carlos Henríquez Consalvi llegó a El Salvador en 1980 para montar una radio clandestina. [Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen] El asesinato del monseñor Romero, el 24 de marzo de 1980, desató el interés ...

During half a decade of civil war, no part of El Salvador has been more fiercely contested than rugged and isolated northern Morazán province. The area is now a stronghold for antigovernment rebels, ...

San Salvador, 20 feb (EFE).- Casi tres décadas pasaron desde la primera incursión electoral del Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación (FMLN) en El Salvador, pero la exguerrilla se enfrenta ...

As a teenager, Leonor Marquez led a fleet-footed unit of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerrilla fighters through the steep mountain passes of Perkin, El Salvador. “We were ...

Por José Ramírez (*) ANTECEDENTES Para comprender la nueva situación de Derechos Humanos en El Salvador, es necesario conocer objetivamente que sucedió en el pasado. Los Derechos Humanos han sido prot ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A onetime rural schoolteacher who became a rebel commander during El Salvador’s long civil war was sworn in as president Sunday, the first former guerrilla to lead the ...