El Salvador

  • Dec 12, 2012
  • 7 min read

El Salvador's gang truce sparks further risks

Nine months have passed since El Salvador's two major gangs agreed a truce, pledging to cease...

El Salvador
  • Dec 12, 2012
  • 2 min read

Latin America/EU FTAs to be implemented in 2013

The European Parliament yesterday approved FTAs with Colombia and Peru, on the one hand, and the...

EU
  • Oct 12, 2012
  • 2 min read

Latin American Mara Salvatrucha faces US sanctions

The US Treasury Department yesterday designated the Mara Salvatrucha gang, also known as M-13, as...

Latin America
  • Mar 29, 2012
  • 5 min read

FMLN suffers electoral setback in El Salvador

The Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) failed its first electoral test...

El Salvador
  • Mar 13, 2012
  • 2 min read

Arena victory weakens Funes in El Salvador

With 95% of votes counted, preliminary results from legislative and municipal elections yesterday...

El Salvador
  • Oct 26, 2011
  • 2 min read

Latin America's FDI soars, defying global downturn

FDI into the region rose by 54% year-on-year in the first half of 2011, according to ECLAC...

Latin America
  • Oct 13, 2011
  • 1 min read

Flooding risks threaten Central American institutions

A tropical depression storm has left at least 13 dead in Guatemala, four in Nicaragua and one in...

Central America
  • Sep 16, 2011
  • 2 min read

Political will is key to Central America drug strategy

The US government yesterday added Belize and El Salvador to a list of 22 countries that are...

Belize