El Salvador News

The Inter-American Court for Human Rights has ordered the government of El Salvador to investigate the 1981 massacre of more than 900 villagers at El Mozote by a US-trained unit of the Salvadoran military.

Central America was hit by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on Sunday night, around 125 km off the El Salvador coast in the Pacific Ocean. A small tsunami followed.

San Salvador - The small, gang-plagued nation of El Salvador passed its first day without a recorder murder since 2009. In the capital; a pronouncement and some somber celebration marked the occasion

With close to 40% of the votes, the conservative ARENA party is set to win the general election in El Salvador against the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front.

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 of the past.

Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder carrying out an excavation of a Maya village in El Salvador have uncovered an ancient road. Researchers say it could have been used to escape from the town following a volcanic eruption.

The trailer for the Spinning Southward documentary coming out later this year. 50 percent of the proceeds from this video will go to the National Brain Tumor Foundation. .:- melloajello.com -:.

SANTA TECLA, El Salvador - Rescuers using bare hands dug for survivors Sunday after a “wave of dirt” buried hundreds of homes in El Salvador when Saturday’s 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck the region which was felt from northern Panama to central Mexi