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The Berenson trial continues
1. Exteriors of San Pedro prison, outside San Juan de Lurigancho
2. Lori Berenson's parents arrive
3. Court room
4. Lori Berenson enters room
5. Lori Berenson
6. Two shots of copies of the Berenson file
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Lori...
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SYND 23/02/80 COFFEE GROWERS PROTEST IN SAN SALVADOR
In San Salvador the rich are protesting about possible reforms that may cost them money, on this occasion the coffee growers hold a protect meeting. The military-civilian junta in El Salvador is considering sweeping economic changer to...
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Salvadorans vote in presidential elections
1. Voters waiting outside convention centre where polling station has been placed
2. Various of voters entering polling station
3. Wide interior of the convention centre
4. Various of people voting
5. Various of Arena Party presidential...
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NICARAGUA: ATHLETES OFFERED A CHANCE TO DECAMP IN EL SALVADOR
Spanish/Nat
A hard-up family of champion athletes in Nicaragua has been offered work abroad in return for a switch of national allegiance.
El Salvador recently offered Nicaragua's Trana Rivera family the chance to decamp as adopted...
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SYND 2 02 80 DEAD BODIES IN ILOBASCO, EL SALVADOR AS ARMY REPRESSION CONTINUES
Dead bodies in Ilobasco, El Salvador as army repression continues.
1. gv exterior of church with slogans painted on
2. ms people washing blood from steps
3. ms people looking inside, holding their noses because of the smell
4....
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Salvadoreans celebrate Easter despite earthquake damage to churches
1. Wide shot of El Carmen church in Santa Tecla, San Salvador
2. Church bell on ground beside Virgin Mary outside El Carmen church
3. Church bell on ground
4. Various of damaged church interior
5. Various of Salvadoreans working on the...
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EL SALVADOR: 2 CHILDREN SEPARATED 14 YEARS AGO ARE REUNITED
French/Span/Nat
Two Salvadoran children separated from each other 14 years ago during the civil war have been reunited
The two brothers fled their village when soldiers killed their parents and
spent four years in an orphanage before...
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EL SALVADOR: WORKERS PROTEST OVER GOVERNMENT UNKEPT PROMISES
Spanish/Nat
Tension between union workers and the government in El Salvador is mounting over low salaries and unkept promises.
President Armando Calderon Sol's is accused of inaction over a range promises -part of a peace plan that...
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Presidents discuss free trade with US
1. Presidents of Central America in meeting
2. Nicaragua President, Enrique Bolaå˜os
3. Presidents arriving at news conference
4. Presidents at news conference
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Oscar Berger, Guatemala President:
"I thought that...
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SYND 23 8 80 SITUATION ROUND UP
Leftists hijacked various buses and lorries, blocking traffic, overturning buses, and placing explosive devices as booby traps. Government troops found another roadside victim, shot with his hands tied behind his back.
1. ms overturned...
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USA/EL SALVADOR: CONVICTED GUARDSMAN FREED FROM JAIL LATEST
San Vicente/Near San Salvador, El Salvador, New York City, U-S -21/22 July 1998 and file
New York - July 22
1. William Ford walks down hallway
2. Ford sitting at table
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) William Ford, Ita Ford's brother
4. Still...
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GS 03 03 82 ANTI-EL SALVADOR DEMONSTRATION HELD IN FORT BRAGG
1. ms rear view two policemen looking on as crowds gather
2. cu Military Policeman in helmet
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) vs protestors walk chanting No Draft, No War, US out of El Salvador
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) ms woman with loud hailer...
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EL SALVADOR: JUDGE ORDERS RELEASE OF 3 CONVICTED GUARDSMAN
Spanish/Nat
A judge in El Salvador has ordered the release of three national Guardsman who were convicted of raping and killing four women in 1980.
The brutal deaths of the three Roman Catholic Nuns and a lay worker caused an...
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GS CAS EL SALVADOR: A rightist death squad of the Maximiliano
12108320 Hernandez Brigade claims responsibility for the strangulation
of 3 men and a woman, whom they allege were communists. The
Pres...
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EL SALVADOR: CITY WORKERS CONTINUE PROTEST AGAINST JOB CUTS
Spanish/Nat
City workers in El Salvador are continuing their week-long standoff in the capital's cathedral to protest against their layoff.
The layoffs are part of a government programme to cut down its bureaucracy.
More than 300 sacked...
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+4:3 Supreme Court to decide on 9 military indicted for alleged killings
9 August 2011
1. Exterior of courthouse
2. Set-up shot of judge Roberto Carlos Calderon, who initially dealt with the arrest warrant until it was handed over to Supreme Court
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Roberto Carlos Calderon, Judge:
(Asked...
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Release of hostages in airport standoff
1. Medium shot of farmer Ignacio del Valle being hugged by another farmer on stage
2. Farmers gathered, raising their machetes
3. Medium of hostages being released by farmers, walking among crowd
4. Wide of farmers roadblock
5. Wide of...
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EL SALVADOR: UNION WORKERS CLASH WITH RIOT POLICE
Spanish/Nat
Tension between union workers and the government in El Salvador is boiling over with several on-going strikes leading to clashes with riot police Tuesday.
The workers are protesting over low salaries and government inaction...
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Prison riot quelled after gunmen kill suspects in politicians' deaths
February 26, 2007
1. Various of police unit entering "El Boqueron" prison premises after riot
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Alvaro Matus, Case Prosecutor:
"If it is true, what is being said about the case, the public ministry ought to be...
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EL SALVADOR: DEATH SQUADS SEND THREATS TO POLITICIANS
Spanish/Nat
Members of El Salvador's parliament have been receiving death threats from right wing groups who are believed to be trying to destabilise the country's democracy.
One neo-Nazi group calling itself "Frenalda 187" has given...
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EL SALVADOR: MORE WOMEN JOINING POLICE FORCE
Spanish/Nat
There are seven-thousand officers in El Salvador's national police force - 15-hundred of them are women.
Many of them fought in the civil war and now that the war is over they are using their experience to fight crime.
In a...
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SYND 14/12/80 WORKERS HARVEST COFFEE BEANS AND SUGAR CANE IN EL SALVADOR
Workers harvest coffee beans and sugar cane in El Salvador.
1. gv sugar cane plantation, zoom in to men cutting sugarcane
2. various of men cutting cane
3. mcu boy chewing on peace of cane
4. various of men working
5. various of a young...
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Outgoing President Flores meets President Bush
1. President of El Salvador Francisco Flores walking to a microphone on the White House driveway
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Francisco Flores, President of El Salvador:
"We touched on several essential topics for our country which have to do...
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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE: AFTERMATH
Spanish/Nat
A major earthquake has rocked central America, killing at least 122 people and unleashing a landslide that's buried hundreds of houses near the El Salvador capital, San Salvador.
About 12-hundred people were unaccounted for...