a leader of the Lenca people in Honduras; Francisco Pineda, a subsistence farmer in El Salvador; and Alberto Curamil, an Indigenous Mapuche leader in Chile, all of whom refused to let government ...

Piasa Palisades Sierra Club of Alton will host their January Speaker Series event at the Old Bakery Beer Company, 400 Landmarks Blvd., on Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 6:30 p.m. Water for Life tells the story ...

“They’re treated like second-class citizens,” says Miriam Bandes, UN Women’s representative in El Salvador. Recognition of Indigenous peoples only gained strength in 2014, following a constitutional ...

a leader of the Lenca people in Honduras; Francisco Pineda, a subsistence farmer in El Salvador; and Alberto Curamil, an Indigenous Mapuche leader in Chile. The film includes subtitles and has won ...

Lawmakers in El Salvador have voted to reintroduce industrial mining in the country, ending a landmark ban that was meant to ...

Is it a crime to seek recognition as Indigenous (Adibashi) people? Is the artwork or graffiti, which carries the word "Adibashi" along with "Hindu," "Muslim," "Buddhist," and "Christian" to ...

In 2019, more than 2,000 Salvadorans were murdered. Applied per 100,000 people, El Salvador’s homicide rate is now one-tenth that of Mexico and 30 times lower than that of Jamaica. This ...

El Salvador has become the sixth country to currently hold more than 6,000 Bitcoin (BTC), further solidifying the cryptocurrency’s status as a treasury asset for President Nayib Bukele’s country.

In March 2022, El Salvador’s notoriously powerful street gangs killed 62 people in a matter of hours. The congress granted Bukele’s administration a requested “state of exception” to crack ...

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.

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. SAN ...