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The Latest Breaking News from El Salvador

Apple Pay expands to Guatemala and El Salvador with these banks

Guatemala and El Salvador now have Apple Pay support thanks to Banco Promerica and BAC Credomatic.

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El Salvador tries ex-leader Funes in absentia for gang truce

El Salvador opened a trial Wednesday against former President Mauricio Funes alleging that he had negotiated a truce with the country’s powerful street gangs when he was president, but the trial will proceed without Funes who lives in Nicaragua

The Independent UK

The new mobile game inspired by El Salvador's brutal crackdown on gangs

El Salvador. 'PCT: Extracción' had 10k Google Play Store downloads in its first week

Manchester Evening News

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Boston’s Jaylen Brown sports custom sneakers paying homage to Mesoamerican ball game

Associated with the ancestors of today's indigenous cultures of what is today Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, the Caribbean, and the US Southwest, the sport bears a clear resemblance to basketball.

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El Salvador news outlet relocates to Costa Rica to avoid Bukele’s crackdown

El Faro moves its headquarters to avoid ‘fabricated accusations’ after 25 years reporting on drug wars, crime and corruption

The Guardian - US

Salvadoran lawmakers pass tech tax cut, including for AI businesses

El Salvador's ruling party lawmakers approved late Tuesday a bill to eliminate for 15 years taxes on companies developing artificial intelligence (AI) and other computer programming work in a bid to make the country a more attractive tech destination.

Reuters

Mexico nabs, swiftly deports MS-13 gang leader to El Salvador

Police in Mexico City arrested one of the most wanted leaders of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang accused of multiple crimes in the United States, officials said on Tuesday, in a fresh blow to one of Central America's most violent criminal groups.

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OAS panel urges El Salvador to restore suspended rights

The Inter American Commission on Human Rights is urging the government of El Salvador to restore all the rights suspended under an “emergency” anti-gang decree that is now entering its second year

The Independent UK

Tragedies, not accidents: Tougher Canadian and U.S. border policies will cost more lives

A fire recently broke out at a detention centre in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-United States border. The blaze killed 38 men and injured another 29 from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. All of them had been detained because they had crossed borders to seek protection and…

The Conversation

After a civil war and 1992 LA riots, he thought he'd seen it all. Then came a tornado

LOS ANGELES — He fended off paramilitary forces in El Salvador during his country's bloody civil war. He protected his soccer store during the 1992 Los Angeles riots with a gun that held only five bullets.

Los Angeles Times

Environmental defenders reel from Mexico and Central America attacks

At least two dozen activists in Indigenous and rural areas murdered, disappeared and jailed in wave of attacks

The Guardian - US

Human rights body urges El Salvador to restore civil rights

A regional human rights body implored El Salvador's government on Thursday to reverse a year-long suspension of constitutional rights that form part of a sweeping anti-gang crackdown enacted last year and credited with sharply reducing violent crime.

Reuters

U.S. arrests retired Salvadoran officer implicated in atrocities

(This story has been corrected to change the number of victims to 'more than 1,000' in paragraph 4)

Reuters

Family of Salvadoran killed in deadly Mexico fire calls for justice

When she learned that her son and grandson had decided to travel from El Salvador to the U.S. to find work, Vilma Gutierrez tried to convince them not to go, worried by the many risks migrants face on their journey north.

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'No information about my son': El Salvador's state of emergency over gang violence drags on

Protesters gathered in El Salvador's capital on March 28 to denounce ongoing human rights abuses under the state of emergency that was first enacted a year ago in response to rampant gang violence. Since then, Salvadoran authorities have apprehended approximately 66,000 individuals, accusing them of being gang members, but many…

Reuters

El Salvador condemns staff at Mexican migrant center after deadly fire

El Salvador condemned on Tuesday the action of detention center staff in Mexico during a fire that killed at least 38 migrants, including "several" Salvadorans, and demanded a thorough investigation.

Reuters

Salvadorans demand release of innocents jailed in anti-gang sweep

Several hundred people in El Salvador took to the streets on Tuesday to protest the year-long anti-gang policies of President Nayib Bukele, many demanding the release of relatives they say have been unjustly caught up in the sweeping dragnet.

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USMNT Nations League Run Buoyed by Stars Seeking Redemption

Ricardo Pepi and Miles Robinson missed the trip to Qatar. Gio Reyna had a tournament to forget. But all three were instrumental in reaching the Nations League semifinals.

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Arsenal player Matt Turner left 'nervous' after USMNT game following unusual move

Arsenal news as Matt Turner and wife, Ashley Herron, learned the gender of their second child after the USMNT's 1-0 win over El Salvador

The Independent UK

El Salvador marks its first year under anti-gang crackdown

The Central American nation of El Salvador has finished a full year under anti-gang emergency measures that were originally supposed to last only a month

Football London

USMNT vs El Salvador TV channel and live stream: How to watch Christian Pulisic and Matt Turner

USMNT news: Anthony Hudson's USA side face El Salvador in their last CONCACAF Nations League group stage game.

The Guardian - US

‘Historic moment’ as El Salvador abortion case fuels hopes for expanded access across Latin America

Human rights court hears seriously ill woman denied procedure as advocates call for change in region with world’s most restrictive abortion laws

Reuters

El Salvador president readies bill to eliminate taxes on tech

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said on Thursday he will send to the country's Congress next week a bill to eliminate all taxes on technology innovations as well as computing and communications hardware manufacturing.

Los Angeles Times

Gustavo Arellano: He helped LAUSD's most 'invisible' workers go on strike, but Max Arias isn't done

LOS ANGELES — Southern California's latest storm didn't dampen the spirits of over 300 workers who gathered in front of a school bus yard in Van Nuys before dawn on Tuesday, the first day of a planned three-day strike.

Reuters

Human rights court begins review of high-stakes El Salvador abortion case

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Wednesday began hearing the historic case of a Salvadoran woman who was denied an abortion in 2013 despite doctors' calls to terminate her high-risk pregnancy.

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