The official canvass of votes in El Salvador's surprising March 31 elections for the National Assembly and municipal governments got under way Monday, the last of a series of developments that are changing the character of politics here.
In a speech on El Salvador's Day of the Soldier, Defense Minister Carlos Vides Casanova said Tuesday that the focus of the Salvadoran civil war in the next three years should be on the economic front.
Prospects for the continuation of government peace talks with El Salvador's rebels took a turn for the worse Thursday as President Jose Napoleon Duarte attacked insurgent leftist leaders for sticking to demands unacceptable to his government.
The government is taking the first steps to implement an ambitious plan to resettle thousands of homeless citizens in communities fortified against guerrilla penetration.
Salvador Espriu, Catalonia's best-known contemporary poet and playwright, has died of heart failure at the age of 72, hospital officials said.
More than 70 wounded Salvadoran rebels, many missing arms and legs, arrivedhere today as part of the exchange agreement that secured the release of the kidnaped daughter of El Salvador's president.
government of El Salvador, but so far nothing has been final about the civil war here.
Seven Americans riding in a caravan for peace entered El Salvador despite a government ban and
Mike Farrell, who for eight years operated on victims of the Korean War in the television comedy "MASH," found himself in a real operating room this weekend helping a Los Angeles doctor perform surgery on a captured Salvadoran guerrilla commander.
Leftist guerrillas said Friday that their principal goal in attacking an army training center Thursday was to kill or capture U.S. military advisers.
Businessmen on the extreme right have launched an aggressive radio and newspaper campaign calling for the resignation of President Jose Napoleon Duarte over a new tax package put into effect this month to pay for the country's continuing civil war.
Bombings by leftist guerrillas left nearly half of El Salvador without electricity Sunday on the
supplies as they learned the extent of the destruction and casualties caused by the earthquake Friday in the capital city of El Salvador.
living in the streets of San Salvador since an earthquake rocked the city Oct. 10.
When the mayor of San Salvador arrived at the government's emergency command center one morning
The State Department said Tuesday that it has asked the Salvadoran government to investigate reports that the Salvadoran army has engaged in human rights abuses.
The Reagan Administration said today that it is turning down a request from El Salvador that
President Jose Napoleon Duarte said Wednesday that he had not been informed about an American-run contras supply operation operating out of El Salvador's Ilopango air base that became public in October when a Sandinista soldier shot down one of the planes carrying arms to Nicaraguan rebels.
United States for aiding the government of El Salvador in its ongoing civil war against leftist rebels.
The U.S.