Tag: San Salvador
El Salvador asks to play qualifier in US amid virus surge
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Fourteen bodies have now been found at the home of a former police officer who was arrested this month...
US report: Allies of El Salvador’s president deemed corrupt
MIAMI — Allies of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, including his Cabinet chief, have been included in a list of senior officials in Central America...
Salvadoran ex-cop nabbed for 2 murders; 10 more bodies found
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A search at the home of a former policeman in El Salvador arrested last week for the murder of...
