War-torn country's players travelled to the 1982 tournament as heroes but were shunned on their return after some shockingly gung-ho tactics brought about a 10-1 defeat to Hungary One of the smaller, yet still very pleasing features of the great 1982 World Cup was that even the goal celebrations had a poetic quality. The joy of successfully channelling a lifetime of aspiration into a single glorious...
Francisco Flores may have fled the country after being accused of misappropriating millions of dollars donated by Taiwan A Salvadoran judge has issued an arrest warrant for the former president Francisco Flores, who may have fled the country after being accused of misappropriating millions of dollars donated by Taiwan. The court also ordered the seizure of Flores's assets including several homes, cars...
DfID investment arm paid $3.3m to firm for 'mega projects' that have severe impact on local resources, environmentalists allege It's the end of the dry season in El Salvador, but behind the thick concrete wall that surrounds Villa Veranda a gated community outside the capital the grass is green and the water flows fast. On a weekday morning, a large water tanker lumbers through the quiet streets, past...
CDC development fund insists projects will create jobs in poor countries but NGOs accuse government of helping big business Millions of pounds of British aid money to tackle poverty overseas has been invested in builders of gated communities, shopping centres and luxury property in poor countries, the Guardian can reveal. CDC, the little-known investment arm of the British aid programme, has invested...
El Salvador's strict abortion laws mean a woman can be charged with homicide for suffering a miscarriage. But a high-profile case that drew global condemnation may prove a catalyst for change Cristina Quintanilla was 18 years old in October 2004 when, seven months pregnant with her second child, she collapsed in pain on the floor of her family home. "I felt like I was choking, like I couldn't...
More than 300 organisations target multinational company that is suing the country for its refusal to grant a gold-mining permit A multinational mining company has been accused of launching "a direct assault on democratic governance" by suing El Salvador for more than US$300m (£179m) in compensation, after the tiny Central American country refused to allow it to dig for gold amid growing...
Finest margin separates conservative former mayor from one-time Marxist guerrilla in presidential poll El Salvador 's presidential runoff election has been declared too close to call by electoral authorities, with just a 0.2% margin separating a one-time Marxist guerrilla and the conservative former mayor of the country's capital. The razor-thin margin led to competing claims of victroy from the two...
Initiative (IM-Defensoras) in the Mexican capital. "And, of course, we are committed to continue." IM-Defensoras is a three-year-old effort to provide women rights defenders in the region with protection mechanisms that are gender-sensitive and adapted to different contexts, and that go beyond traditional options usually focused on organising some kind of police guard or facilitating exile. The initiative...
ve spent more than 20 years working alongside those labeled as rebels, guerrillas, dictators, terrorists, freedom fighters and dissidents. I've witnessed equally intractable negotiations move beyond stalemate to producing agreements that actually stop the violence and put the warring parties on a path towards peace. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that in order to get Syrian leaders to consider...
t taking the problem seriously." The violence behind today's exodus stems from turf wars between street gangs such as the M-18 and Mara Salvatrucha, the growing power of drug cartels and woefully weak and corrupt state institutions across the region. Many of the refugees tell stories like that of Mirta, a 24-year-old Honduran woman travelling with her two small sons. After years living in New York,...
Authorities in El Salvador are evacuating residents living within a three kilometre radius of the Chaparrastique volcano ...
disappearance' resolved by tiny charity as wartime abuses remain live political issue The two women looked at each other for a moment before drawing together in an embrace of joy and sorrow. Around them, a room full of relatives let out a collective gasp, astounded at the resemblance between mother and child, reunited after 29 years. In 1984, Josefina Flores Osorio had been forced to hand over her...
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may explode' due to favourable climatic conditions for virus-carrying mosquito A dengue epidemic is raging in Central America, from Honduras to Costa Rica. The virus has already claimed 60 lives, with a total of 120,000 cases. The Pan American Health Organisation fears the figures may "explode", with this year looking " unusually bad ". Several factors are likely to exacerbate the situation. The rainy...
s reproductive rights more firmly into international policy The treatment of a 22-year-old pregnant woman in El Salvador who was repeatedly denied potentially life-saving medical care due to the country's absolute abortion ban has caused worldwide outrage. The woman, known as Beatriz, has lupus and kidney disease, and the foetus she carried, missing parts of its skull and brain, posed a real threat...
s civil war in the 1980s . After a peace deal was signed in 1992, service industries and manufacturing took priority over agricultural development. More than 90% of fruit and vegetables consumed in the country are imported, according to government figures. "The agricultural structure was abandoned," says Oscar Ortiz, mayor of Santa Tecla, a town near the capital, San Salvador, but which is predominantly...
s battle to protect its water by becoming the first country to ban metal mining could have a wide-ranging resonance Five hundred scientists meeting in Bonn last month warned that 9 billion people would face the consequences of severe water shortages within a generation or two, but did not point the finger at industries devastating fresh water supplies. Meanwhile, a battle against a metal mining industry...
s two biggest street gangs, Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS-13) and Calle 18, with gang graffiti marking territory street by street. Both gangs used the square to display dead bodies, so everybody knew who was responsible. This public show of violence instilled deep fear among the street vendors, shop owners and taxi drivers, who were all forced to pay into the gangs' extortion rackets. No one came...
s health ministry announced late on Monday. The 22-year-old woman, known only as Beatriz for privacy reasons, underwent the operation in the afternoon after 27 weeks of pregnancy, the ministry said. Her baby girl was born without a brain. Health minister María Isabel Rodriguez said the operation took place about 2pm local time and that Beatriz was in a stable condition. "She's in good hands, being...
s health minister approved the C-section for the 22-year-old woman who suffers from kidney failure and lupus, a day after the supreme court ruled that she could not have an abortion despite her lawyers' appeal that the pregnancy was life-threatening. Ultrasound images indicate that her fetus was developing with only a brain stem and was given no chance of surviving. The case of the mother known only...