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El Salvador: Police Officers Speak Out About Abuses
Human Rights Watch
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June 27, 2025
Interviews with police officers and internal police documents reveal abusive practices that have led to arbitrary detention and abuse of power in El Salvador. Their accounts provide a rare insight into how the Salvadoran police have fabricated...
El Salvador’s Tax Revenue Grows 7.3% Through May 2025, Strengthening Economic Outlook.
El Salvador in English
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June 26, 2025
El Salvador has reported a significant increase in tax revenue, collecting $3,853.3 million through May 2025 — a 7.3% rise compared to the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Finance. The increase, equivalent to $261.9 million,...
Climate crisis and cash crunch: 10 countries at breaking point by 2050
Asianet Newsable
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June 29, 2025
A new index from Columbia Climate School reveals the 10 most climate-vulnerable countries by 2050. Many face rising disaster risks and shrinking access to finance, trapping them in a cycle of crisis and recovery. A new index called the Climate...
Here are the Declaration of Independence’s Grievances Against King George III. Many Apply to Trump.
Mother Jones
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July 3, 2025
Mother Jones illustration; National Archives; Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When Thomas Jefferson was writing the Declaration of Independence in the weeks...
Grupo Ternova Launches Nneo Smart Properties with $180 Million Investment to Boost El Salvador’s Logistics Sector.
El Salvador in English
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June 28, 2025
Grupo Ternova, a leading Salvadoran business group, has officially launched Nneo Smart Properties, its new division focused on logistics, industrial, and real estate solutions. The launch was marked by the inauguration of Nneo Nejapa, positioned...
Short Redhead Reel Reviews for the week of July 4
Hometownsource - Minnesota
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July 3, 2025
Rating system: (4=Don't miss, 3=Good, 2=Worth a look, 1=Forget it) For more reviews, click here. “Arcades & Love Songs: The Ballad of Walter Day” (NR) (3) [Screened April 17 at the TCL Chinese Theatres in Los Angeles.] — Ed Cunningham's...
Border Invasions Fall 92% to Lowest Level Since 1960s
FrontPage Magazine
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July 3, 2025
There were 6,000 arrests of border invaders in June. That’s still too many but it’s down from 83,000 last June. But it’s a 92% drop. 90% of preventing any kind of crime is deterrence. After that you’re left with crimes of passion and terrorism,...
Padre Marcelo’s Last March
The New York Review of Books
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July 3, 2025
Just before 8:00 AM on Sunday, October 20, 2024, parishioners were exiting the Catholic church in Cuxtitali, a neighborhood on the edge of the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost—and...
El Salvador Promotes Public Innovation Training for 21st-Century Municipalities.
El Salvador in English
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June 25, 2025
El Salvador continues to advance its efforts in modernizing municipal governance with the completion of the specialized course “Innovation and Public Management for 21st-Century Municipalities,” led by the Metropolitan School in collaboration with...
House clears key hurdle on tax megabill | The Excerpt
Chambersburg Public Opinion - Pennsylvania
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On Thursday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: The House has cleared a hurdle on President Donald Trump's bill of legislative priorities. USA TODAY National Correspondent Marco della Cava puts Diddy's trial in context after a verdict. A federal...
El Salvador Showcases Security and Economic Progress at Regional Investment Forum.
El Salvador in English
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June 25, 2025
El Salvador presented its latest achievements in security, tourism, and economic development during the Economic Forum on Investment and Growth Prospects for the Region, hosted by the Central American Parliament (Parlacen). The event gathered...
El Salvador’s National Tree Planted in the U.S., Europe, and Japan as Part of Global Cultural Outreach.
El Salvador in English
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June 25, 2025
In the coming months, seeds of the maquilishuat, El Salvador’s National Tree since 1939, will begin to sprout in Germany, Japan, Slovakia, and in U.S. cities like Salt Lake City and San Bernardino. This international planting effort, led by...
Letter to FIFA Re. Impact of U.S. Immigration Policies on the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup
Human Rights Watch
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July 2, 2025
July 1, 2025 VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Gianni Infantino President Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA-Strasse 20, P.O. Box 8044 Zurich, Switzerland Re: Impact of U.S. Immigration Policies on the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2026...
5 tips for a long July Fourth weekend
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Write to us at startingpoint@globe.com. To subscribe, sign up here. I don’t know about you, but I have languished a bit this summer, also known as “slightly warmer April.” Between a circus of end-of-school-year activities; cold, rainy weather; too...
El Salvador Builds National Ecological Condition Index.
El Salvador in English
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June 25, 2025
El Salvador is advancing its efforts to evaluate the ecological status of forests and coffee agroecosystems, through the development of specialized monitoring tools and inter-institutional cooperation. The initiative, led by the Ministry of...
Spain and El Salvador Invest in Human Capital With Strategic Scholarships.
El Salvador in English
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June 26, 2025
The Government of El Salvador, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with Spain’s Formato Educativo Business School, has awarded 30 scholarships for virtual master’s programs in fields such as Executive Leadership, Business...
At least 40 journalists have fled El Salvador, fearing imprisonment - ICIJ
ICIJ
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Dozens of journalists from El Salvador have gone into exile over the last month in the face of escalating government harassment, intimidation and arbitrary press restrictions, according to the Journalists Association of El Salvador. The group,...
El Salvador City officially opens 18th Charter Day celebration
Politiko
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June 24, 2025
The El Salvador City government kicked off its 18th Charter Day celebration through a ceremonial program at the City Hall Grounds on Monday, June 23. Through Republic Act No. 9435, El Salvador was converted into a component city on June 27, 2007....
Building Memory, Documenting the Truth: The Case of Nicaragua’s Confidencial
Global Investigative Journalism Network
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July 3, 2025
Is reporting possible while living under persecution? When you don’t know from where you’ll be attacked, or if you will be discredited, threatened, intimidated, or forced into exile? Where the choices are sometimes as stark as choosing jail,...
El Salvador’s Fashion Industry Makes a Statement in Europe with “Luz de Trópico” Debut.
El Salvador in English
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June 23, 2025
El Salvador is making waves in the global fashion scene with the unveiling of “Luz de Trópico,” the newest collection by SMODA, the Salvadoran Fashion Cluster. This innovative line of garments and accessories showcases the rising creativity and...