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...
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...
opinion by Arbol | 9 wks ago | updated 6 wks ago 782 views | 3 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
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,"...
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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...
opinion by francislholland | 18 wks ago | updated 18 wks ago 335 views | 4 recommendations | 3 comments
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. ...
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...
opinion by francislholland | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago 132 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
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"“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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
" 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...