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President Jose Napoleon Duarte told his nation Sunday that the death toll from Friday's powerful earthquake has reached 890, after a day in which rescue teams continued to pull survivors from the mangled ruins of several downtown office buildings.
A leading U.S. expert on the justice system in El Salvador says that "the rule of law has broken
The memories are still fresh and still horrible.
Exiled leftist guerrilla leaders Friday said they will return to El Salvador next week to try to revive peace talks with the U.S.
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Leftist guerrillas struck the eastern town of Santa Rosa de Lima early Saturday, blowing up power lines and attacking the police station and an army post, Salvadoran authorities said.
More than a month after President Jose Napoleon Duarte called for a new round of peace talks with the country's leftist guerrillas, the two sides have still not agreed on a time or a place for the meeting.
The leftist guerrillas of El Salvador, pursued by increasingly large and well-armed government
Whatever may be flawed in Oliver Stone's searing, full-torque new war movie "Salvador" (Friday at
Rebels gotten up as circus clowns danced in the town's main square.
Casualties declined among El Salvador's armed forces in the 12 months ending June 30 despite an increase in military offensives against leftist guerrillas, the country's Defense Minister said Tuesday.
The Salvadoran government has released four political prisoners and is willing to hand over 21 more in response to demands by the kidnapers of President Jose Napoleon Duarte's daughter, a government source said Wednesday.
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of workers who are on strike at a San Salvador factory where Levi's jeans are made.
Leftist rebels Thursday offered an 18-point peace plan to end El Salvador's eight-year-old guerrilla war and called for a new round of negotiations with the U.S.
A moderate earthquake that killed 1,500 people in San Salvador in October should stand as a warning
A Salvadoran army deserter and a teen-age girl, their motives unclear, occupied a primary school with more than 900 students and teachers for more than six hours Wednesday before releasing their hostages and surrendering to the army.
U.S. officials Wednesday reaffirmed their commitment to keep military advisers in El Salvador
The government of El Salvador has begun enforcing a 33-year-old law that requires Americans to