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A voter casting their ballot in El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections (Amber / Creative Commons) This article by Angeles Rodríguez-Domínguez was originally published on NACLA's website. It is already past midnight in Nejapa, El Salvador. Poll workers...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nearly 20 years later, journalist, diplomat and now published author Héctor Silva Ávalos still cannot get that afternoon in late 1995 out of his head. Then an arts and culture reporter at La Prensa Gráfica...

The funeral of Justo Germán Gil, a member of the police Maintaining Order Unit killed by gang members in the town of San Juan Opico in eastern El Salvador on Jan. 10, 2015. Credit: Vladimir Girón/IPS By Edgardo Ayala SAN SALVADOR, Apr 23 2015 (IPS)...

Cruz Esmeralda Mejía, Maybelyne Palacios and Rosa María Rivera growing plants from improved maize seed in the La Maroma cooperative, in the Bajo Lempa region of El Salvador. Credit: Edgardo Ayala/IPS By Edgardo Ayala JIQUILISCO, El Salvador, Jul 5 ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A onetime rural schoolteacher who became a rebel commander during El Salvador’s long civil war was sworn in as president Sunday, the first former guerrilla to lead the Central American nation. Salvador Sanchez...