Carlos Martn Bar believes that his brother Ignacio knew he was about to be killed. The night before his murder Nov.
Spain Seeks Justice for Jesuits Killed in El Salvador’s Civil War
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Chile: Will Allende’s Exhumation Put Death Debate to Rest?
In the early afternoon of Sept. 11, 1973, with Chile’s presidential palace in the pall of a coup d’tat’s smoke and gunfire, President Salvador Allende, the world’s first democratically elected Marxist President, bid his country farewell in a radio address and, after ordering the palace defenders to surrender, entered the Independence Hall alone
Salvador’s Supersalesman
With an assist from Duarte, Reagan reassures Congress and critics The Reagan Administration wants to give billions of dollars to Central America, it says, to support liberty and political pluralism.
Gang members, cop arrested in filmmaker’s slaying in El Salvador
Five men in El Salvador, including a police officer, were arrested Wednesday in connection with the killing last week of French filmmaker and photographer Christian Poveda, the country’s attorney general’s office said. A sixth man who allegedly ordered the murder was already in prison, according to a statement from the agency.
Leftist claims El Salvador presidency
Mauricio Funes, a member of a political party that waged guerrilla war against the government 17 years ago, has claimed the presidency of El Salvador. “This is the happiest night of my life,” Funes told a jubilant crowd at his election headquarters Sunday night. “It’s also the night of greatest hope for El Salvador.” The FMLN party’s Funes had 51.12 percent of the vote, while the ARENA party’s Rodrigo Avila had 48.87 percent with 84 percent of the national ballots counted, the electoral commission said on its Web site