Brazil's sports minister is dismissing delays in stadium construction for the 2014 World Cup and says construction work in the northeastern city of Salvador will be completed in time for next year's Confederations Cup.
“Maya 2012: Lords of Time” at the Penn Museum explores the culture of the Maya, who thrived in a classic period from A.D. 250 to 900 in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and El Salvador.
The Supreme Court rejected an extradition request from Spain for 13 former officers accused of ordering the killings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter during the country’s civil war.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the Secret Service has found no basis to allegations its agents hired strippers and prostitutes in El Salvador last year.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - El Salvador's economy minister, Hector Dada, quit on Friday citing discrepancies with President Mauricio Funes over the economic direction of the tiny Central American nation. El Salvador failed to meet some public spending goals in 2011, which led the International Monetary Fund to suspend a $750 million loan to the country this week. The international agency said El Salvador's economic growth of 1.5 percent last year was lower than projected, while public spending and debt soared past expectations. The country's gross domestic product is seen rising between 2. ...
The Secret Service says it’s looking into a new report that a group of its agents and U.S. military specialists partied at a strip club in El Salvador.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service is examining a new report of alleged misconduct by agents at an El Salvador strip club ahead of a trip there last year by President Barack Obama, senior lawmakers said on Thursday. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan is looking into the report but has so far not found anything "credible" to back it up, Representative Elijah Cummings told reporters outside the U.S. House of Representatives. Cummings is the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service is examining a new report of alleged misconduct by agents at an El Salvador strip club ahead of a trip there last year by President Barack Obama, a senior lawmaker said on Thursday. Representative Peter King, a Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said in a statement to Reuters that the review is part of an extensive investigation the Secret Service is conducting in the aftermath of an incident involving prostitutes in Columbia. U.S. ...
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