El Salvador's vicious gangs have called a cease-fire, enticed in part by conjugal visits for incarcerated leaders. Salvadorans are skeptical the peace will last.
Politically driven efforts to destroy El Salvador's murals threaten to undermine the country's attempts to come to terms with its violent and divisive past.
Twenty years after the end of El Salvador’s civil war, an archbishop’s decision to destroy one of the country’s most famous artistic memorials to the war rekindles old debates.
Obama's plan for military force to combat drug trafficking has El Salvadorans reliving elements of the country's violent past.
En el trigésimo primero aniversario del asesinato de Oscar Romero por agentes paramilitares los salvadoreños quieren saber si Obama hará su parte para poner fin a la impunidad en la parte superior de la escala social Salvadoreño.
President Obama concluded on Wednesday a five-day tour of Latin America, where he had hoped to make news talking about everything from trade to immigration, but where he instead parried questions about U.S. military actions in Libya.
Will Obama apologize for the U.S government's role in funding and backing the regimes responsible for the deaths of Oscar Romero and 80,000 other Salvadorans?
On the 31st anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero by U.S.-trained paramilitaries, Salvadorans look to President Obama for clues to their country's future relationship with the United States.
Will Obama apologize for the U.S government’s role in funding and backing the regimes responsible for the deaths of Oscar Romero and 80,000 other Salvadorans?
El Salvador's current economic downturn and resulting wave of crime is the worst since "La Matanza," the 1932 massacre that began the country's long line of military dictatorships.
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