1. US Vice President Joe Biden shaking hands with the President of El Salvador, Tony Saca, who introduces him to EL Salvador President elect, Mauricio Funes

2. Biden greeting Central American...

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Three years after the end of the civil war, El Salvador is still struggling to reach the goal of a peaceful soc
iety.
And one of the most painful legacies of the war was the...

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A Swedish-funded project is underway to help rescue some of El Salvador's growing number of young children hooked on sniffing
glue.
The addiction stems mainly from a...

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El Salvador's transvestites are victims of a wave of violence threatening their safety and their li
ves.
In May alone, three transvestites were killed, leaving their...

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El Salvador joined the rest of Central America in celebrating 178 years of independence from Spain this
week.
But for many Salvadoreans, independence has not brought...

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Security has been tightened and ballot boxes distributed throughout El Salvador, in preparation for Sunday's presidential electi
ons.
Main candidate Francisco...

San Salvador - 29 January 2006

1. Wide of funeral procession to Metropolitan Cath
edral
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) NO NAME GIVEN, Shafik
supporter:
"We can see it and feel it that Shafik is
still...

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For the first time since the end of a bloody civil war, the Armed Forces are back on the streets in El Salva
dor.
The official explanation is soldiers are helping police combat a...

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The authorities in El Salvador are stepping up efforts to fight a spate of recent epide
mics.
Masked men with chemical guns are spraying trucks at the border and health...

Rescuers search for 65 killed in plane plunge

A Guatemalan Boeing 737 airliner crashed late Wednesday (9/
8) in
La Finacona, a mountainous area about 65 kilometres
(40 miles)
east of San Salvador, killing all...

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Civilians and members of Guatemala's leftist guerrillas have met in El Salvador to discuss the peace process aimed at ending 35 years of civil
war.
The meeting was sponsored by the...

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An ex-philosophy professor says he appears to have defeated two former guerrilla chiefs for El Salvador's presid
ency.
Comprehensive official results were not available...

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Former leftist Salvadoran guerrillas voted for their presidential candidate for the 1999 elections this wee
kend.
However, none of the F-M-L-N (Faribundo Marti Liberation...

1. Police and guards with body bag on stretcher

2. Body bag being loaded onto pick-up
truck
3. R
iot police
4. Another body bag being lo
aded onto truck
5. Relatives waiting for new
s outside the fence...

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Authorities in El Salvador are denying a report in a U-S newspaper that crack U-S army troops staged an attack on rebels in El Salvador in 1985, killing 83 guerri
llas.
The newspaper report...

San Salvador, El Salvador, 29 June 19951.Various general view arms haul.2.Soundbite (Spanish) Hugo Barrera - El Salvador's Defence Minister3.Various of police officers with arms cache.4.Pan of arms lying on...