Tag: San Salvador

El Salvador seeks arrest of former president for corruption

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Prosecutors in El Salvador have issued an arrest warrant for former president Salvador Sánchez Cerén on charges of embezzlement...

El Salvador seeks arrest of former president for corruption

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Prosecutors in El Salvador have issued an arrest warrant for former president Salvador Sánchez Cerén on charges of embezzlement...

El Salvador asks to play qualifier in US amid virus surge

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The head of El Salvador’s soccer federation said Wednesday he will ask CONCACAF to allow his country to play...

Loved and decried, El Salvador’s populist leader is defiant

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — In the narrow, gang-controlled alleys of the Las Palmas neighborhood, struggling Salvadorans are untroubled by actions of their president...

At El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach, a glimpse of crypto economy

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EL ZONTE, El Salvador — After El Salvador’s congress made the bitcoin legal tender this week, eyes turned to this rural fishing village on...

El Salvador president wants Bitcoin as legal tender

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced in a recorded message played at a Bitcoin conference in Miami Saturday that...

Court in El Salvador sentences former first lady to 10 years

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A court in El Salvador sentenced the wife of former President Tony Saca to 10 years in prison for...

New England Pats gives flight to China’s vaccine diplomacy

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MIAMI — The New England Patriots' team plane has delivered 500,000 Chinese-made COVID vaccines to El Salvador — and in the process inadvertently inserted...

US steers El Salvador funding away from government

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The United States Agency for International Development will redirect its funding from El Salvador's state institutions to its civil...

14 bodies found at home of ex-cop in El Salvador murder case

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Fourteen bodies have now been found at the home of a former police officer who was arrested this month...