Chalatenango Department

POLITUR Post is Inaugurated in the area of the Chalatenango

prnewswire.com     May 15, 2008          

POLITUR Post is Inaugurated in the area of the Chalatenango SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The strengthening of the Tourism Police Division (POLITUR), part of the Tourism Security System implemented by the Ministry of Tourism last year, has led to the opening of a new police...                

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RIGHTS: Reuniting El Salvador’s Missing Children with Their Families

ipsnews.net     Apr 8, 2008          

SAN SALVADOR, Apr 8 (IPS) - Alberto Henríquez was six years old when a soldier took him away from the village of El Mozote in northeastern El Salvador, where around 1,000 children, women and men were killed in a counterinsurgency operation by the army in December 1981.                

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MURDER OF INMATES REVEALS INSECURITY OF PRISONS

onlinedemocracy.ca     Mar 20, 2008   16 related          

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, (Mar. 17, 2008) IPS/GIN - The murder of eight inmates in two prisons in El Salvador has once again drawn attention to the serious problems plaguing the country's prison system. ... On March 5, five members of the Mara Salvatrucha youth gang...                

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RIGHTS-EL SALVADOR: Prisons Out of Control

ipsnews.net     Mar 17, 2008   15 related          

SAN SALVADOR, Mar 17 (IPS) - The murder of eight inmates in two prisons in El Salvador has once again drawn attention to the serious problems plaguing the prison system, such as severe overcrowding, a lack of rehabilitation programmes and the housing of pretrial detainees with convicted criminals.                

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Remittance Slowdown, Wake-Up Call for Latin America

washingtonpost.com     Mar 14, 2008   3 related          

WASHINGTON -- Jesus Antonio Soriano had long wanted to give something back to his native Chalatenango, a province in northern El Salvador devastated by civil war in the 1980s. And so four years ago, the agronomist, with three partners, developed a plan to improve land values and create jobs by...                

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