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El Salvador's Congress clears hurdle to speed constitutional reforms

Jan. 29, 2025 21:01 PM EST

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Congress ratified a constitutional reform Wednesday that will make it easier and faster to make constitutional changes in the future, a change critics say will allow President Nayib Bukele and his party to further consolidate power. ...

Salvadoran court sentences 3 youths to prison after they appeared in video making gang signs

Jan. 23, 2025 19:41 PM EST

SAN SALVADOR (AP) — A court in El Salvador on Thursday sentenced three youths to five years in prison and put five more on probation after they were arrested last year following the public release of a video of them making gang signs inside a school. Seven other young people, who...

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes dies in exile in Nicaragua at age 65

Jan. 22, 2025 16:51 PM EST

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65. Nicaragua’s Health Ministry said in a statement that Funes had died of a serious...

El Salvador closes 2024 with a record low number of homicides

Jan. 01, 2025 18:20 PM EST

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador closed 2024 with a record low 114 homicides, continuing notable security gains under a second full year of a state of emergency that has given the government extraordinary powers and curtailed some fundamental rights. President Nayib...

Trump calls it the 'center of the universe.' Mar-a-Lago is a magnet for those seeking influence

Dec. 31, 2024 22:42 PM EST

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The cars begin lining up early in the morning to be screened by Secret Service agents under white tents near the fence that surrounds President-elect Donald Trump’s vast south Florida estate. Famous figures such as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Canadian Prime...

Para Trump, es “el centro del universo”: Mar-a-Lago es un imán para quienes buscan influencia

Dec. 31, 2024 09:26 AM EST

PALM BEACH, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — Los autos comienzan a alinearse en las primeras horas de la mañana para ser inspeccionados por agentes del Servicio Secreto bajo carpas blancas, cerca de la valla que rodea la extensa propiedad del presidente electo, Donald Trump, en el sur de Florida. ...

El Salvador's Congress approves ending ban on metals mining

Dec. 23, 2024 21:53 PM EST

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador's Congress approved Monday a law that would lift the country’s seven-year-old ban on mining for metals. The law, proposed by President Nayib Bukele and passed on a 57 to 3 vote, would allow mining everywhere except nature reserves and...

More world leaders from Argentina and El Salvador invited to Trump's inauguration

Dec. 17, 2024 17:49 PM EST

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — More world leaders are confirming they have been invited to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, and Argentine President Javier Milei is disclosing his plans to travel to Washington, breaking an American political tradition that kept foreign heads of state...