Gang numbers have been on the rise across the country but nothing compares with MS-13. Mara Salvatrucha, “La Mara” a name of a street in El Salvador and the number “13” is recognized by the mexican mafia as the area of which MS-13 originated and controled. This gang was formed by the sons of those ...
The controversial CAFTA (Central America Free Trade Agreement) or CAFTA-DR is a big factor in international business. It not only affects the seven countries that are involved in the agreement (The Dominican Republic, The United States, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras-also Costa Rica when and if they approve the agreement), but it also affects ...
El Salvador doesn’t immediately spring to mind as an exotic vacation destination. Most Americans, who will be hard-pressed to locate El Salvador on a map, still associate El Salvador with the decade-long brutal civil war in the 1980s, despite UN-brokered peace accords being signed and in effect since 1992. The smallest and most densely populated ...
Romero is a 1989 biopic of the Archbishop of El Salvador, Oscar Romero. Produced by Paulist Pictures, the production company of a Roman Catholic sect, it aims to show the latter years of this hero and martyr’s life to better educate Americans about the work of this revered figure in Central American political and religious ...
