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Julia Turns Deadly, Unleashes Flooding Rain In Central America

Julia completed its rare crossover from the Atlantic to the Pacific, one day after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane.

Zenger

At least 28 are dead as Julia drenches Central America with rainfall

Now a tropical depression, former Hurricane Julia drenched Guatemala and El Salvador with torrential rains Monday after it reemerged in the Pacific following a pounding of Nicaragua.

WEKU

Storm Julia kills 25 in Central America as it churns toward Mexico

The death toll from storm Julia rose to at least 25 on Monday, officials said, with most victims in El Salvador and Guatemala, as the weakening storm dumped heavy rain on a swath of Central America and southern Mexico.

Reuters

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Tropical Storm Julia drenches Central America with rainfall

Tropical Storm Julia is drenching Guatemala and El Salvador with torrential rains after reemerging in the Pacific

The Independent UK

Saudi Foreign Minister Meets with Counterparts from Malta, El Salvador

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met on Sunday with his Maltese counterpart Ian Borg in Riyadh, the foreign ministry said. During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral relations and ways to enhance and develop them, in addition to discussing aspects of coordination on regional and international matters. Prince Faisal…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Julia leaves Nicaragua and moves toward El Salvador, bringing rain and flooding

Julia is crossing the Pacific Ocean toward El Salvador after leaving torrential rain and floods in Nicaragua and nearby Honduras.

Miami Herald

Hurricane Julia storm path projected as America braces for Cat 1 storm making landfall

Upgraded from a tropical storm by the US National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Julia is baring down on Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. Many residents have already fled

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U.S. IRS identifies 79 tax fugitives in Mexico, neighbors

The Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation unit said on Thursday it has located 79 tax evasion fugitives in Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in the first year of a new extradition initiative.

Reuters

In El Salvador, rising inmate numbers threaten humanitarian crisis: NGO

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's war against the country's criminal gangs could generate prison overcrowding and even a violent reaction from criminals, said a report by the NGO International Crisis Group (ICG) released Tuesday.

Reuters

In El Salvador, army surrounds town to root out gang

More than 2,000 soldiers and police surrounded and closed off a town in El Salvador in order to search for street gang members accused in a killing

The Independent UK

Ex-El Salvador soccer chief sentenced to 16 months in FIFA corruption case

The former president of El Salvador's soccer federation was sentenced on Thursday to 16 months in U.S. prison after pleading guilty to a charge arising from a global soccer corruption probe involving the payment of bribes to stage and broadcast matches.

Reuters

At least seven dead after landslides in El Salvador

At least seven people have died and one was injured in El Salvador after rains triggered landslides, authorities said on Thursday.

Reuters

S&P says it could downgrade El Salvador in 6-18 months

SP Global Ratings said on Friday it could cut El Salvador's already negative credit rating within six to 18 months if it does not make "adequate progress" on debt reduction, days after the government announced plans to buy back sovereign bonds.

Reuters

Bitcoin-Loving El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Running For Reelection: Here's How The Crypto Performed Since Becoming Legal Tender In The Country

In June 2021, El Salvador became the first country to make cryptocurrency Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) legal tender.

Benzinga

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Despite prohibition, El Salvador President Bukele says he will seek re-election

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Thursday he would run for re-election, despite the country's constitution prohibiting presidents from having consecutive terms.

The Independent UK

El Salvador's president Bukele says he will seek re-election

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has announced on the country’s Independence Day that he will seek re-election to a second five-year term

The Conversation

One year on, El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment has proven a spectacular failure

A year ago, El Salvador became the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender – alongside the US dollar, which the Central American country adopted in 2001 to replace its own currency, the colón.

The Guardian - US

‘Tale of two borders’: how a US Covid-era rule shapes fate of migrants

Title 42 bans all migrants from entering the country over spread of Covid – but the rule is largely enforced against Mexicans and people from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador

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Bitcoin 'revolution' a work in progress

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele took the stage to fireworks, announcing to a cheering crowd of crypto enthusiasts at a beachside confab that Bitcoin would revolutionise his country.

The Independent UK

US official: Tip, mom tracked murder suspect in El Salvador

U.S. prosecutors say a tip along with the perseverance of the mother of a woman killed in San Diego in 2016 led to the arrest of her boyfriend who fled to El Salvador and was captured there last month

Radio France Internationale

Behind bars: Latin America women prisons as seen by Ana Maria Arévalo

Photographer Ana Maria Arévalo "Dias Eternos" focuses on the condition in detention centers and jails for women in Venezuela, El Salvador and Guatemala.

Tribune News Service

Fugitive Marine on US Marshals ‘Most Wanted’ list arrested for girlfriend’s 2016 murder

Raymond “RJ” McLeod, a former Marine put on the U.S. Marshals Most Wanted List, was captured in El Salvador just more than six years after he allegedly murdered his then-girlfriend inside a California apartment.

The Independent UK

US Marshals capture their most wanted man

‘Avid bodybuilder and a heavy drinker’ allegedly found teaching English in El Salvador

Tribune News Service

4 places to discover the Mayan world in Mexico and Central America

Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are celebrating three decades of founding the Mayan World Organization (Organización Mundo Maya), which focuses on improving the quality of life of the region's residents through sustainable tourism policies.

The Independent UK

El Salvador extends state of exception; 50,000 arrested

Some 50,000 people have been locked up in El Salvador since late March for alleged gang ties and the country's congress has now approved another month-long extension of the state of exception that suspends some rights in the name of combatting gangs

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