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28-year-old stabbed, suspect dies after jumping overboard near San Salvador
WTOL 11 - Ohio
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July 30, 2025
Police say a 28-year-old woman was stabbed by a fellow crew member, who later jumped into the sea and died in waters near San Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Police are investigating a fatal incident that occurred Thursday evening aboard...
Gov't signs $52.6 million contract for San Salvador infrastructure work
The Nassau Guardian
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The government has signed a $52.6 million contract with GDA Paving Construction to transform San Salvador’s infrastructure. “Under the leadership of Gerard Nairn and Kevin Williams – both proud sons of San Salvador – along with Charles Sealy II,...
El Salvador Hosts Pioneering Nuclear Energy Training for Developing Nations.
El Salvador in English
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July 29, 2025
El Salvador is currently hosting the first Interregional Training Course on Establishing a National Position for a New Nuclear Power Program, organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in coordination with the national body OIPEN...
El Salvador Government Strengthens Trust and Confidence in the Construction Sector.
El Salvador in English
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July 29, 2025
The Government of El Salvador, under the leadership of President Nayib Bukele, continues to strengthen its commitment to economic development by providing certainty, security, and confidence to the national construction sector. Through close...
El Salvador Retries Environmentalists Over 1989 Wartime Killing
Tico Times
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July 29, 2025
A new trial against five Salvadoran environmentalists, accused of murdering a woman in 1989 during the civil war, will take place on Tuesday, announced the NGO they belong to, denouncing the case as a form of “persecution” for their anti-mining...
El Salvador Boosts Consumer Protection with Korean and Spanish Cooperation.
El Salvador in English
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July 28, 2025
El Salvador has successfully concluded the “Capacity Building for Improvement and Specialization of Consumer Protection” program, a three-year initiative that ran from 2023 to 2025. The program aimed to strengthen the technical capacities of the...
El Salvador Expects 2.6 Million Tourists During August Holidays, Boosting Local Economy.
El Salvador in English
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July 28, 2025
El Salvador is preparing for a major influx of tourists during the upcoming August holidays, with government projections estimating 2.6 million visits to public tourist sites nationwide. The announcement reflects the country’s growing appeal as a...
IDB Invest and Bladex Support Tigo El Salvador to Expand Broadband Infrastructure and Enhance Digital Inclusion
WFMZ - Pennsylvania
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IDB Invest and Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior (Bladex, NYSE: BLX), co-led a comprehensive financing package of up to $205 million for Tigo El Salvador to expand broadband infrastructure and support digitalization. The financing will...
Central America most affected by plastic bottle pollution
Azzet
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July 29, 2025
Central American countries are the most affected by plastic bottle pollution on Latin America’s Pacific coast, with large companies like Coca-Cola representing the majority of these pollutants. Most of the plastic bottles and caps polluting Latin...
Climate Science Digest: July 28, 2025
Muser Press
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July 28, 2025
Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (July 28, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. Decoding the blue: Advanced Technology realizes potential in harmful algal bloom...
'Hell on Earth': Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse
Public Radio Tulsa - Oklahoma
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July 27, 2025
Carlos Daniel Terán, 19, still remembers the words a prison warden told him when he entered El Salvador's mega-prison, CECOT. "He told us we were never going to leave this place," Terán recalled. It was March of this year. Terán had just been...
Biogas, a Solution to Poultry Pollution in El Salvador
Inter Press Service
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July 25, 2025
Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Energy, Food and Agriculture, Headlines, Integration and Development Brazilian-style, Latin America & the Caribbean, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals Sustainability The biodigester...
Book Review | Training for Victory: U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan
Small Wars Journal
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July 25, 2025
Training for Victory: U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan. By Frank Sobchak. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2024. ISBN: 978168247133. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Notes. Sources cited. Index. Pp. 1-352....
Keeping Score: States Ramp Up Antiabortion Efforts; Black Women Forced Out of the Workforce; Only a Quarter of Americans Say Trump Has Helped Them
Ms. Magazine
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July 30, 2025
In every issue of Ms., we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too—in this biweekly...
El Salvador's new wave of political exiles say history is repeating itself
KPRC - Texas
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July 23, 2025
The fiercest voices of dissent against President Nayib Bukele have long feared a widespread crackdown. They weathered police raids on their homes, watched their friends being thrown into jail and jumped between safe houses so they can stay in El...
Fraud in juvenile migrant program causing backlog in visas for foreign priests, religious
Catholic News Agency
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July 30, 2025
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 30, 2025 / 17:54 pm U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a report showing widespread fraud in its permanent residence program for unaccompanied minors, which has led to a backlog in the...
Andry Hernandez Romero released from El Salvador, returned to Venezuela
Q Notes
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July 24, 2025
Sign up for our free newsletter to receive the latest LGBTQ news from the Carolinas in your inbox every week. It took openly gay stylist Andry Hernandez Romero a year to reach the United States. Following a guarded exit from his native Venezuela,...
Transforming Tourism: El Salvador Trains Indigenous Women as Certified Tour Guides.
El Salvador in English
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July 24, 2025
As part of President Nayib Bukele’s ongoing commitment to inclusive development and cultural revitalization, 17 women from the indigenous communities of San Antonio del Monte and Cuisnahuat, Sonsonate, have been officially certified as local site...
Serbia under scrutiny: Growing repression and the erosion of civil liberties
Serbian Monitor
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July 30, 2025
Serbia has once again been placed on the watchlist of countries experiencing a rapid deterioration in civil liberties by the CIVICUS Monitor, an online platform that tracks the latest developments concerning civil freedoms, including freedom of...
Migrant deported to notorious El Salvador prison demands $1.3M from Trump administration after savage beatings, vile conditions and 24-hour confinement
The Independent
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July 24, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...