El Salvador U.S. gives El Salvador nationals 18 month deadline The Trump administration has given El Salvador nationals 18 months to find a legal way to stay, or leave the country. The ruling will affect over 200,000 people from the Central American country. 09/01/2018
no comment El Salvador’s annual fireball festival Hundreds of participants threw rags drenched in gasoline at each other at the yearly event. 01/09/2017
El Salvador El Salvador's beloved national hippo is beaten to death The country has reacted with shock and horror after Gustavito was beaten to death in his pen at the national zoo. 28/02/2017
no comment El Salvador: fireballs battle with the devil Locals in the town of Nejapa in El Salvador have gathered, to hurl fireballs at one another in honour of a huge volcanic eruption in 1922 which forced all of the residents to abandon the… 02/09/2016
El Salvador Police raid offices of Mossack Fonseca in El Salvador Police in El Salvador have raided the local offices of Mossack Fonseca, the company exposed in the Panama Papers leaks. Officials said they were 09/04/2016
El Salvador Former El Salvador President Flores dies facing corruption charges El Salvador’s former President Francisco Flores has died after suffering a stroke while awaiting trial on corruption charges. He was accused of 31/01/2016
Sport Former El Salvador football head arrested The former president of El Salvador’s football federation Reynaldo Vasquez has been arrested by police in relation to the on-going FIFA corruption 17/12/2015
El Salvador Murdered Archbishop Oscar Romero beatified in El Salvador The archbishop who challenged the former military dictatorship and paid the price with his life has been beatified - the last step before being declared a saint - before a huge crowd in San Salvador. 23/05/2015
El Salvador Ex-guerrilla is sworn in as President of El Salvador El Salvador has sworn in a new president. He’s the left-wing rebel leader Salvador Sanchez Ceren. The 69-year-old is the first former guerrilla to 02/06/2014
El Salvador Sobbing fisherman returns home to El Salvador after year adrift in Pacific A fisherman who claims he spent more than a year adrift in the Pacific has returned home to El Salvador. With his bushy beard gone, Jorge Salvador 12/02/2014
El Salvador El Salvador presidential goes to a second round A former left-wing guerrilla has won the first round in El Salvador’s presidential election but a close result means there will have to be a second 03/02/2014
El Salvador El Salvador volcano belches smoke and sparks evacuation A suddenly active volcano in eastern El Salvador has prompted the authorities to order an evacuation of the surrounding three kilometre area. The 30/12/2013
El Salvador Mother and her kidnapped daughter reunite 30 years later Three decades ago the bloody and brutal civil war in El Salvador tore a little girl away from her mother. Now, Josefina Osorio Henriquez is able to 22/12/2013
El Salvador players suspended The El Salvador football federation has provisionally suspended 22 players for 30 days for their connection in an alleged match-fixing 22/08/2013
El Salvador Woman denied abortion by El Salvador court will have early caesarian A pregnant woman whose baby could only survive a few hours will undergo an early caesarian section, after El Salvador’s Supreme Court ruled she 31/05/2013
El Salvador Hunt for survivors in hurricane-hit El Salvador Emergency crews are desperately searching for survivors in El Salvador after Hurricane Ida swept across the country triggering floods and mudslides 09/11/2009
El Salvador Dead and missing rise in El Salvador flooding Floods and mudslides in El Salvador continue to claim lives. At least 124 people have died but with dozens missing, that number is expected to rise 09/11/2009
El Salvador El Salvador chooses ex-Marxist party Voters in El Salvador have turned their backs on the conservatives who have run the country for nearly two decades. The party of the former marxist 16/03/2009
El Salvador Power at last for ex-Salvadoran rebels The FMLN, or Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, went from rebel group to political party in 1992. This is when the country’s 12-year civil 16/03/2009
El Salvador El Salvador turns left after 20 years on the right Leftists in El Salvador are celebrating after the candidate of former Marxist guerrillas won the country’s presidential election. Mauricio Funes 16/03/2009
El Salvador Ex-Marxist rebel party leader claims victory The leader of the former Marxist rebel FMLN party has claimed victory in El Salvador’s presidential election. With most of the votes counted 16/03/2009
