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...Salvador Dalí, a regular, once tried to come in with his pet panther. And yes, many of these feature in the framed photos on the wall in the entrance....
...(The Guardian) Archbishop Óscar Romero becomes a saint but his death still haunts El Salvador (The New Yorker)...
...The Anhe hotel in the town of Matías Romero looked like it had been uprooted and pushed over on to its side....
...One country that seems willing to change course is El Salvador, which last year took the baton from Honduras as the homicide capital of the world (Venezuela is also one of the most murderous.)...
...(FT) Gangs of El Salvador Savage turf battles between rival gangs have made murder mundane in El Salvador....
...londondesignbiennale.com Photographs: Gui Bonsiepe; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Fernando Romero Enterprise...
...But with an average of 22 deaths a day, and May shaping up to be the most violent month in a decade, the peace Romero prayed for looks elusive in El Salvador....
...The archbishop — already dubbed “St Romero” inside El Salvador and whose image is included in a statue in Westminster Abbey in London as one of ten 20th-century martyrs — was long considered a dubious candidate...
...To improve matters, he appointed an outsider as governor of the islands, Maria Isabel Salvador – a former ambassador – and elevated her post to ministerial level....
...We’ve got very little merchandise left,” says Salvador Romero Dominguez, Fonatur’s commercialisation director, who expects the last remaining plots of land in both places to be sold this year....
...This pope may expedite the canonisation of Archbishop Oscar Romero, a modern Thomas Becket shot down by death squads while celebrating mass in San Salvador in 1980....
...Immigration is a vital subject for El Salvador....
...Jusepe de Ribera’s magnificently lifelike “St Jerome” in meditation, the old man with frail thin body, tense, watchful face and greying hair and moustache illuminated by the light of a divine presence, to Salvador...
...Nelson Romero, a Gopes inspector, says the force has had success since it was set up in February. “We have arrested 150 delinquents, 80 per cent of which are now in prison.”...
...The candidate is one of Latin America's most famous priests, Oscar Arnulfo Romero. The Salvadorean archbishop was assassinated at the pulpit 25 years ago, at the height of El Salvador's civil war....
...Those loyal to him chose to see him as ambiguously diplomatic, a “very political pope”, affirmed Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, in an interview I was privileged to be given in 1979....
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