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...Violence had surged when José Adolfo Macías, leader of the feared Los Choneros gang, escaped from jail earlier last month....
...Martinelli, another former president, Martin Torrijos and the current vice-president José Gabriel Carrizo have all said they will run....
...Jose Miguel Insulza, a senator for the centre-left Socialist party who was a minister in several of those governments, said they did not go far enough to tackle inequality....
...That was always the original plan,” tweeted José Miguel Vivanco, former head of Human Rights Watch’s Americas division. “Today, a new [Hugo] Chávez emerges.”...
...The hard-right Republican party of José Antonio Kast was the biggest winner in Sunday’s election, picking up 22 of the 51 seats in the council drafting a new constitution....
...José Rubén Zamora said he believed the charges of money laundering, blackmail and influence peddling against him were filed in retaliation for stories published by his newspaper that alleged corruption by...
...A decade ago, a fisherman from El Salvador called José Salvador Alvarenga survived 438 days adrift with just one other shipmate....
...Two months ago police crashed through the ceiling at the home of Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, startling his family after a leisurely lunch....
...He also worked with Salvador Dalí, who once said: “There are only two geniuses in Spain: me and Paco Rabanne.”...
...When US agents arrested General Salvador Cienfuegos at Los Angeles international airport in October 2020 on charges of drug conspiracy and corruption, the news dropped like a bombshell across the border....
...For decades, El Salvador has suffered high levels of violence from criminal gangs....
...A week later, José Carlos Acevedo, long-serving mayor of the city of Pedro Juan Caballero, was killed outside a municipal building, months after his niece Belén Acevedo was assassinated....
...President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has used his supermajority in the legislature to bend the justice system to his will....
...The trial in a US federal court in San Jose promises to be one of the most high-profile tests of alleged wrongdoing in Silicon Valley, which is currently experiencing a historic boom in start-up funding....
...Neither Rodrigo Chaves or rival José María Figueres has been widely embraced by the electorate ahead of the presidential run-off due to take place on Sunday....
...The IMF a year ago approved $389m in emergency financial assistance to El Salvador....
...The leaders of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are now following. He calls on the US, EU and UK to do more to defend the rule of law in the region in this impassioned column....
...Domingas Manoel Salvador, who sells fish on Luanda’s seafront, says her income has halved since the pandemic....
...But in the campaign’s final stages “Castillo is not giving any signal of moderation”, said José Carlos Saavedra, chief economist at Apoyo, a consultancy. “On the contrary, he has radicalised.”...
...“In other words, they’re trying to make these provisions on same-sex marriage and abortion perpetual,” said José Miguel Vivanco, director of the Americas division at advocacy group Human Rights Watch....
...José Miguel Vivanco, executive director for the Americas at advocacy group Human Rights Watch, said Mr Bukele was displaying “total disregard for institutional constraints”....
...José Miguel Vivanco, Americas executive director at advocacy group Human Rights Watch, said the prison crackdown revealed Mr Bukele’s “autocratic tendencies”....
...Women in El Salvador can spend up to 40 years in jail under charges of murders for terminating a pregnancy or suffering a miscarriage....
...But under pressure from Washington, the conservative governments that subsequently came to power in Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Bolivia expelled the Cuban teams....
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