USA

Salvadoreans face deportation after US ends Temporary Protected Status

Due to the US practice of granted citizenship to babies born inside the United States, there are now nearly 200,000 US citizens who were born to parents who now may face deportation.

08/01/2018

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

Guatemala

Central American sky lit up by spectacular meteor burst

People come out onto the streets in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador to watch giant fireball in the sky.

28/12/2016

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

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