By Sara Acosta San Salvador, Feb 3 (EFE).- The Salvadoran government is poised to open the largest prison in the Western Hemisphere, designed to hold as many as 40,000 gang members incommunicado. Known officially as the Center for Terrorism Confinement, the facility was built on a parcel of 165.2 hectares (407,901 acres) in a rural …
By Sara Acosta Potonico, El Salvador, Sep 9 (EFE).- Plastic bottles, glass jars, discarded shoes and other refuse are threatening the viability of El Salvador’s Cerron Grande reservoir and the survival of the fish and birds that inhabit the ecosystem. Created in 1973 by the construction of the Cerron Grande hydroelectric dam, the reservoir – …
By Sara Acosta San Salvador, May 24 (EFE).- A group of women with a months-old baby is using plastic to improvise a place to get out of the sun and rain, to rest and sleep on the sidewalk in front of a jail in El Salvador. They, like hundreds of other people are hoping that …
By Sara Acosta San Salvador, Mar 8 (EFE).- With more than 20 years in the military behind her, Salvadoran army air force (FAS) pilot Maj. Sandra Hernandez says that “We women and men have the same abilities” to perform jobs and activities from which “sometimes women are excluded simply for being women.” The 40-year-old Hernandez, …
By Sara Acosta San Salvador, Jan 7 (EFE).- The order to reopen a criminal probe into the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests – five of them Spaniards – and two women is an important step in the fight for justice in El Salvador, Jesuit Father Andreu Oliva said in an interview with Efe. The …