From an “often ruthless” Honduran oligarch to a pair of Indian billionaires who ran a company accused of falsifying drug data, the World Bank has helped the rich get richer.
Despite new laws to protect the rights of children in El Salvador who are suffering the consequences of the civil war, many youth remain endangered and seek refuge in orphanages.
The disease, which is linked to severe birth defects, has spread to countries where abortion is illegal.
In Nicaragua and El Salvador abortion bans prevent termination of pregnancies under any circumstances, including rape or incest. The governments are ill prepared to offer services young mothers need.
At age 16, Ana Luisa was raped. But by seeking an abortion to salvage her life, she became the criminal in the eyes of Salvadoran law, which bans abortion.
In deeply Catholic Nicaragua and El Salvador, where abortion is seen as murder, activists struggle to make the case for therapeutic termination in cases of rape or to save the life of the mother.
Rising sea levels are destroying mangrove forests and ruining the livelihoods of some of El Salvador's poorest citizens.
Spain's El Pais newspaper reports on how rising sea levels in El Salvador are ravaging mangroves and undercutting the only source of cash income of impoverished villagers.
Rising waters threaten to wash away El Salvador's mangrove forests and the meager livelihoods of local inhabitants.
Latin America now faces the challenge of coping with the potentially devastating impacts of climate change.
While the mangrove forest in El Salvador slowly vanishes as a consequence of climate change, the main source of income for many subsistence farmers and fishermen also disappeaers.
Few countries in the Americas are as vulnerable to climate change as El Salvador, which in recent years has been battered by increasingly extreme storms and severe flooding.
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