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Battle Stations: Civil Society Fights Radio and TV Spectrum Auctions
Representatives of the Network for the Right to Communication gathered at the Constitution Monument in El Salvador’s capital city to demand a complete end to auctions of television and radio...
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Salvadoran Peasant Farmers Clash With U.S. Over Seeds
Cruz Esmeralda Mejía, Maybelyne Palacios and Rosa María Rivera growing plants from improved maize seed in the La Maroma cooperative, in the Bajo Lempa region of El Salvador. Credit: Edgardo Ayala/IPSBy...
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Legal Vacuum Fuels Conflicts Over Water in El Salvador
Jeniffer Hernández, 12, fills her water jug at the community tap in the village of Los Pinos in the municipality of Tacuba in western El Salvador. This is one of the taps where those who have no piped...
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Electioneering Undermines Fight Against Crime in El Salvador
Leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha gang in the prison of Ciudad Barrios, in the Salvadoran department of San Miguel, in 2012. Credit: Tomás Andréu/IPSBy Edgardo AyalaSAN SALVADOR, Jan 15 2015 (IPS)The...
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Rural Towns in El Salvador Join “War Tourism” Trend
Florentino Menjívar (left), his wife María Dolores Gómez, and Víctor Manuel Escalante at the foot of a mural showing prominent figures from El Salvador’s civil war, in Dimas Rodríguez, a settlement of...
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Native Seeds Help Weather Climate Change in El Salvador
Domitila Reyes, 25, picks a cob of native corn in a field in the Mangrove Association, one of the two small farmer organisations that produce these seeds for the government’s Family Agriculture Plan in...
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El Salvador Faces Dilemma over the Prosecution of War Criminals
Residents of La Hacienda, in the central department of La Paz in El Salvador, are holding pictures of the four American nuns murdered in 1980 by members of the National Guard, as they attend the...
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Survivors of the El Mozote Massacre Have New Hopes for Justice in El Salvador
Sofia Romero Pineda, 55, and her grandson hold the few portraits she preserves of some of her family members killed during the military operation which slaughtered some 1,000 inhabitants of El Mozote...
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Victims of El Salvador’s Civil War Demand Reparations
The coffins of six children killed by the Salvadoran army in May 1982 are carried through the cemetery by relatives, human rights activists and residents of the town of Arcatao, in El Salvador, on Sept...
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