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  El Salvador prelate recalls 20th anniversary of peace agreement
  Twenty years after a peace agreement ended the conflict between El Salvador’s government and leftist rebels, the nation’s leading prelate expressed gratitude that the peace has endured but also expressed concern about continued violence. “We as a Church have ...
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  The Chiquita Papers
   Confidential internal memos from Chiquita Brands International reveal that the banana giant benefited from its payments to Colombian paramilitary and guerrilla groups, contradicting the company's 2007 plea agreement with U.S. prosecutors, which claimed that the company had never received "any actual security services or actual security equipment in exchange for the payments." Chiquita had characterized the payments as "extortion."
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  U.S.-El Salvador Citizen Security: A Shared Responsibility
  As a key component of the larger Central America Citizen Security Partnership, and through the Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI), we are continuing to support El Salvador’s efforts to address its most pressing citizen safety challenges. 
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  A New Life: Salvadoran Women in D.C.
  The D.C. region has the second-largest Salvadoran population in the United States. For the past 30 years, primarily men have been coming over, and sending money to family members back home.
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  ArtCorps and Theater for Change
  ArtCorps is a dynamic social enterprise using the arts to advance social change in developing countries. Each year, ArtCorps sends volunteer professional artists to support the environmental, public health and human rights initiatives of Central American organizations.
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  Salvadoran Anti-Mining Activists Kidnapped in Guatemala
  Members of a Salvadoran environmental organization travelling to meet with the Guatemalan government, to protest a new [Goldcorp Inc.] gold mine, were kidnapped and robbed by men wearing Guatemalan police uniforms. They are members of the Center of Investigations into Investment and Commerce (CEICOM) and were travelling with journalists from Salvadoran TV Channel 10.
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  Scores die in El Salvador floods
  At least 124 people have been killed in El Salvador by flooding and landslides following days of heavy rain, the government says.
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