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El Salvador: Traditional fireball festival in the streets of Nejapa

The town of Nejapa, El Salvador celebrated its annual fireball festival on Saturday (August 31) with participants pelting each other with rags drenched in gasoline that have been rolled into tight flaming balls.

02/09/2019

El Salvador

Abortion law: Court acquits woman accused of killing stillborn child

In retrial, El Salvador acquits woman accused of killing her stillborn child

19/08/2019

El Salvador

Move over, Trump? Meet the president taking Twitter use to new levels

Twitter has been central in getting underdog candidate Nayib Buele elected President of El Salvador. Now, the leader is taking some of his first actions in office via Twitter, including letting officials go.

07/06/2019

El Salvador

El Salvador: A 'millenial' mayor the favourite to win elections

It's the first time since the 1992 peace accords that dominating political parties could lose the elections against a young candidate with no political ideology.

01/02/2019

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Salvadoreans cleanse their souls with an Easter whipping

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27/03/2018

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

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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

El Salvador

Magnitude 7.0 earthquake shakes Central America

A strong, magnitude 7.

24/11/2016

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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

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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

Mother and her kidnapped daughter reunite 30 years later

22/12/2013