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High Prices of Drugs on Debate in El Salvador
Inside Costa Rica
The election campaign in El Salvador has brought forth again the debate on a bill on medicines that seeks to lower their high prices and whose debate got bogged down in Parliament for a decade. The first initiative on the controversial issue came to ...

El Salvador: Security Must Not Override Freedom Rights
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
SAN SALVADOR –The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention* urged the Government of El Salvador to ensure that the right to security does not override the right to be free from arbitrary detention. The Working Group also raised serious concern about the ...

High Prices of Drugs on Debate in El Salvador
Prensa Latina
07 de febrero de 2012, 16:23San Salvador, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) The election campaign in El Salvador has brought forth again the debate on a bill on medicines that seeks to lower their high prices and whose debate got bogged down in Parliament for a ...

TEXT-Fitch rates Digicel Limited proposed notes
Reuters
The transaction in El Salvador is in the process of receiving approvals by local authorities. The economics of the overall transaction still remain at US$355 million, which Fitch estimates that the biggest part of this will be received by Digicel after ...

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DigitalJournal.com
El Salvador uses failed 'iron fist' policies against rising crime
DigitalJournal.com
San Salvador - El Salvador's government has increasingly turned to its military in attempts at curbing escalating crime connected to gang-related drug trafficking, and President Mauricio Funes' actions are called a return to failed "iron fist" policies ...

Salvadoran tries to cross illegally into the United States
Laredo Sun
A woman from El Salvador was arrested by inspectors from the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection by attempting to use an American birth certificate of another person to cross the border. LAREDO, TX. - Ingrid Alicia Esquivel, 31, was arrested and ...

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Grupo Dutriz Selects Digital Technology For Audience Engagement
Daily Markets (press release)
Grupo Dutriz, the multimedia news group in El Salvador, has signed an agreement with Digital Technology International (DTI(TM)) to install DTI Circulation and DTI Advertising at La Prensa Gráfica and El Gráfico. The two news media properties are among ...

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El Salvador operators fined USD 1.2 mln for price collusion
Telecompaper (subscription)
El Salvador's competition watchdog, Superintendencia de Competencia, has fined four mobile operators for colluding on prices. Telemovil, Telefonica, Digicel and Intelfon have been fined a total USD 1.2 million for agreeing to jointly set the rate of ...

El Salvador: UN Panel Voices Concern At Arbitrary Detention
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
A United Nations expert human rights panel has voiced concern about the right to security impinging on the right to be free from arbitrary detention in El Salvador, as well as extreme overcrowding in prisons and police facilities in the Central ...

US Sway Clipped In Latin America
Wall Street Journal
Six countries in the hemisphere don't have ambassadors—Barbados, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela, whose anti-US leader, Hugo Chávez, is up for re-election. The region's top post—a State Department job that oversees the entire ...

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US Sway Clipped In Latin America
Wall Street Journal
Six countries in the hemisphere don't have ambassadors—Barbados, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela, whose anti-US leader, Hugo Chávez, is up for re-election. The region's top post—a State Department job that oversees the entire ...

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Christian Science Monitor
El Salvador gets 'tough' amid worsening crime
Christian Science Monitor
By Hannah Stone, Guest blogger / February 6, 2012 El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes speaks at a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the signing of the peace accords that ended the war between a right-wing dictatorship and guerrillas of the ...
El Salvador: FMLN Described as Moral ReservePrensa Latina

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Costa Rica to study kidney disease afflicting sugarcane workers
iWatch News
Kate Sheehy and Sasha Chavkin By Sasha Chavkin Thousands of men working in the Pacific Coast sugarcane fields of El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and neighboring countries have been dying of chronic kidney disease, an ailment that in most parts of ...

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Beaumont Enterprise (blog)
A culinary adventure to Ricas Pupusas El Salvador
Beaumont Enterprise (blog)
For the most authentic tastes, look for the El Salvadoran and Honduran items. These are listed separately, so they're easy to spot. Pupusas are the iconic El Salvadoran food. The best way I can describe them is a quesadilla-esque homemade corn tortilla ...

El Salvador deserves help
Albany Times Union
By RANDY JURADO ERTLL, Commentary El Salvador is still not safe 20 years after peace accords ended the bloody civil war there. Today, the violence revolves not around politics but around gangs. And just as the United States played a role in the civil ...

AT L.A. SCHOOL, QUESTIONS AMID A SENSE OF BETRAYAL
U-T San Diego
Spanish is the predominant language here — burger joints advertise 99-cent tacos, pupuserias sell El Salvador's national food of corn-filled patties, stores display merchandise of used washing machines and plain wooden furniture on the sidewalks as in ...

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ABC6OnYourSide.com
Morse Hit-Skip Pedestrian Fatality Identified
NBC4i.com
Columbus police have identified the man killed in a hit-skip incident on Morse Road February 3, 2012, as Rene Antonio Deras, 44, of El Salvador. He was a man police say was walking southbound across Morse Road at Kingshill Drive.
Victim Identified in Fatal Hit-SkipABC6OnYourSide.com

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Website helps immigrants compare fees to send money home
Los Angeles Times
REPORTING FROM SAN SALVADOR—Immigrants from Central America and the Dominican Republic can go online to compare the cost of sending money from the United States to relatives back home. Enviacentroamerica.org is a new service that shows how much ...
Home > News > Free Online Tool Empowers Senders of Rem...World Bank Group

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El Salvador Proposes Curfew, Militarized Schools
InSight Crime
El Salvador's government has proposed implementing a curfew on young people and placing schools under heavy guard, following a record year for murders. Minister of Justice and Public Security David Munguia Payes said the proposed curfew would keep ...

gulfnews.com
Freedom dearer in Cuba
gulfnews.com
Cuba's economy was among the most sluggish in Latin America last year, with only El Salvador performing worse. Havana: Antonio Gomez could be the saviour of the Cuban President, Raul Castro. On a dusty street corner in the working class Centro Havana ...

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