40 dead in El Salvador flooding - Hurricane Ida

After three days of continuous rain, caused by Hurrican Ida, 40 people have died due to flooding and mudslides. Humberto Centeno, the El Salvador's Minister of the Interior said the deaths were reported in at...

Independencia de Centroamérica y su Dependencia a todo lo demás

El orgullo tico florece una vez más. Las banderas 'de a cien' ondean en todas las rotondas, y no, esta vez no es por algún partido de la Selección Nacional de fútbol. El fútbol tico está, err, pasando por...

Christian Poveda French Filmmaker of ¨La Vida Loca¨ Murdered.

It took Christian Poveda two years to be accepted by the gang M18, and start his documentary wanting to know and show the human side of  these gang members, examples of what he calls ¨absolute human...

White Males are US Majority, Says CIA-Trainee Blogger Conference

Today, I received a Facebook message from a member of Young Democrats of America, reporting on her participation, and the "information" she received, at NetRoots Nation, an onstensibly "progressive," "liberal,"...

The CIA Truth About Markos Moulitsas (DailyKos) Will Come Out

Hat Tip to Truthout for the YouTube video documentation.Cross-posted verbatim at my "The Truth About Kos Blog".Dear Anonymous: What you're saying makes a lot of sense. The "mainstream media" won't touch Truth about Kos (TAK), except about lack of diversity in the...

Presidenet Zelaya returns to Honduras on Thursday

Caracas, Venezuela, 29 June 2009. Honduran President Manuel Zelaya announced his return to Honduras on Thursday. He would be accompanied by OAS General Secretary and probably some other Latin American leaders. ...

Mainstream Media More Transparent, Reliable than DailyKos Blog

The Secret History of DailyKos' Founder and the Shadowy History of a Big Box Blog Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and The Truth About Kos (DailyKos).Having written letters to the editor of newspapers, including one published in the Boston Globe, and having...

CIA-Trained Blogger Disbursing Money to "Progressives"

Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos) blog. "Overseas Private Investment Council Press Release (Full Text)"Some of us have wondered what Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) learned at the CIA during his two year "training" period there. SourceWatch.Org Covers...

Obama Discusses Immigration with Central American Presidents

"“There’s another attitude, totally different, in Obama’s behavior: more openness, more dialogue, more respect. There are good prospects,” said Zelaya, one of the leaders in the region who has been most critical of the United States and an ally of Venezuelan...

Nuevo New Orleans: Latino Immigrants Remake the Crescent City

BY PETER HOLDERNESS, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Fernando Saucedo crossed the U.S.-Mexico border on July 4, 2005, headed for Houston. The farmer from Zacatecas joined a constant stream of Mexicans, Central and South...

Zaragoza Project to provide health care in rural El Salvador

In June of 2008, I spent five weeks in El Salvador and was fortunate to have the opportunity to volunteer in a local health care clinic. The Zaragosa Clinic is just shy of an hour’s bus ride inland from the...

Report Calls for a Fresh Approach to Latin America

According to a "new" Brookings Institution report, relations with Latin America should be place high in the foreign policy priorities of  incoming President Barack Obama. A suggested rapprochement with Cuba...

United States and El Salvadorian soldiers distribute food in Iraq

U.S. Army 7th Special Operations Group Soldiers provide security as El Salvadoran soldiers pass out 300 food packets to the village of Al Karaade, Iraq, on Nov. 12. The El Salvadoran army teamed up with the Iraqi...

Brazil plans to sign deal to produce oil in Cuba

Cuba expect a major breakthrough in its bilateral relations with Brazil. During a 2 day visit starting after the Ibero America Summit currently held in San Salvador, President Lula da Silva would be signing an oil...

Chavez cancels El Salvador visit for security reasons

" Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:35:14 GMT. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has suspended his trip to the 18th Ibero-American summit in El Salvador next week for security reasons.  Chavez said intelligence indicated...

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