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Salvador Sanchez Ceren tours California 27 Aug 2013 | 12:36 am
Salvadoran-American Luis Reyes talks about life in El Salvador prior to coming to the US at age 16, his journey to the States, and his success in Washington, D.C. in an episode for Contrapunto. Reyes ...
Violent crime up in Costa Rica 25 Aug 2013 | 06:13 pm
According to the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ), murders and assaults increased during the first half of 2013 compared to the same period last year. A report by the Crime Analysis Unit of ...
Better Days Ahead 24 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
I'm trying to get my APSA paper done today so I can send it to my panel. I am on an 8:30 A.M. panel next Sunday which is one of, if not the worst, time slots. If you are heading to APSA and want to me...
Perez Molina backs down again 24 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
A few weeks ago, motorcyclists in Guatemala City were going to be fined for not wearing a special vest, for zigzagging between traffic, driving in the wrong lane and not having their license plates vi...
Past, present and future in El Salvador 23 Aug 2013 | 12:59 am
Several interesting stories out there on El Salvador today. Al Jazeera has El Salvador: Quest for Justice which discusses the Yellow Book discovered in 2010. The Salvadoran army kept a "Yellow Book" t...
Moore's An Immigrant's Journey 22 Aug 2013 | 07:53 am
Getty Images photographer John Moore has a terrific set of photographs of Central American immigrants heading into and across Mexico on their way to the US for The Atlantic.Needless to say, the situat...
Fourth Guatemalan journalist murdered in 2013 21 Aug 2013 | 06:40 am
TV journalist Carlos Alberto Orellana Chávez's was murdered earlier this week in Mazatenango. Mazatenango is the capital of the southwestern province of Suchitepéquez. From the Committee to Protect Jo...
Inocente Montano to learn of sentence on Thursday 20 Aug 2013 | 05:45 pm
It looks like former Salvadoran vice minister of public security Inocente Montano and the rest of us will learn his sentence for immigration violations on Thursday. Montano is alleged to have been inv...
Do we really know who killed the Bishop (Gerardi)? 19 Aug 2013 | 07:47 am
Those of us outside of Guatemala who are familiar with the murder of Guatemala’s Bishop Juan Gerardi have most likely been introduced to the details of the case through Francisco Goldman’s The Art of ...
We like the gang truce. We just don't want to admit it publicly? 17 Aug 2013 | 07:02 am
In that same CS-Sondea poll I noted yesterday, it also produced a graph on President Mauricio Funes' approval ratings since March 2010. His approval ratings have ranged between 6 and 8 (out of 10) for...
