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		San Salvador is a country that has been racked by civil conflict and where atrocities have been committed by the warring factions.
		And on “the cheap linoleum inside the cathedral there was what seemed to be actual blood, dried in spots, the kind of blood dropped by a slow hemorrhage, or by a woman who does not know or does not care that she is menstruating” (62).
		She says that several women were in the cathedral during the hour she was there including “a young woman with a baby, an older woman in house slippers, a few others, all in fl.
	www.moonstar.com /~acpjr/Blackboard/111BB/ModDescrib111.html (1118 words)

	americas.org - Cathedral Occupation Ends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A nine-day occupation and hunger strike at the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador has ended in time for Pope John Paul II’s early February visit.
		As police tightened their cordon around the cathedral and several hunger strikers were hospitalized, the occupiers left the cathedral January 12.
		The departure was coordinated by the United Nations Mission for El Salvador and the government’s Office for the Defense of Human Rights.
	www.americas.org /item_12695 (158 words)

	San Salvador - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- A sportscaster and businessman was to be sworn in as president Tuesday but the main opposition party and its 31 lawmakers...
		SAN SALVADOR: Nike sporting goods empire heir Matthew Hatfield Knight died on Sunday during a diving trip with friends at a lake east of the El Salvador capital...
		During her stay in San Salvador, Lu will also inspect the ROC Embassy and technical missions stationed in the country, as well as attend a banquet to be hosted...
	news.daylightonline.com /San_Salvador.html (2071 words)

	Tim's El Salvador Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yet that was not the only large gathering of Christians in San Salvador on August 5.
		The day features a procession in which the statue of El Divino Salvador, dressed in purple robes, is carried through the streets of San Salvador to the Metropolitan Cathedral.
		At the cathedral, the figure of Christ disappears into a giant blue globe, representing the entire world.
	luterano.blogspot.com (1355 words)

	News for San Salvador, El Salvador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		San Francisco Chronicle, CA -: A group of Sonoma and Marin county youths who were robbed Friday afternoon at gunpoint during a bus ride from Guatemala to El Salvador are hoping to stay in...
		SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - The former chief executive officer of Central America's chief airline, Grupo Taca, was found shot to death in his car on the...
		SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - (KRT) - From the looks of his hilltop retreat outside the capital, newly elected President Tony Saca is not exactly the average...
	www.4newz.net /new/world/cities/San_Salvador.html (12803 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Latin America/Caribbean / Protesters seize San Salvador cathedral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Masked protesters seized the San Salvador cathedral Wednesday, demanding President-elect Tony Saca pull Salvadoran soldiers out of Iraq.
		SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Masked protesters seized the San Salvador cathedral Wednesday, demanding President-elect Tony Saca pull Salvadoran soldiers out of Iraq.
		Saca, who takes office June 1, has said he will leave El Salvador's nearly 379-member detachment in Iraq until August, as planned, despite the early departures of the Spanish troops under which they were serving.
	www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2004/04/28/protesters_seize_san_salvador_cathedral (293 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Laid-off workers occupy Salvador cathedral - Catholic bishops condemn the sit-in as 150 ...
		SAN SALVADOR - The Salvadoran bishops' conference has condemned the ongoing occupation of San Salvador's cathedral by laid-off public employees, calling it a serious offense against God and a crime.
		Cathedral occupiers, including 13 hunger strikers, demanded the immediate reinstatement of 1,000 workers and a revision of the cases of another 500 workers, all of whom were laid off under Decree 471.
		He also said that by occupying the cathedral, workers seeking the restoration of jobs were depriving others of their cathedral reconstruction jobs.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_n12_v32/ai_17888373 (595 words)

	americas.org - Protesters Seize Cathedral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On January 8, some 20 masked protesters calling themselves the “People’s Youth Block” occupied the metropolitan cathedral in San Salvador and announced they would not leave until the government negotiates a solution with striking medical workers of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute (ISSS).
		An Agence France Presse photo of the occupied cathedral showed a banner across the top that read: “Against Privatization: Insurrection.” The protesters demanded any privatization of health care be halted and that police be withdrawn from striking hospitals.
		The protesters left the cathedral on the night of January 10 after meeting and discussing their demands with Rosa Chávez and human rights ombudsperson Beatrice de Carrillo.
	www.americas.org /item_8179 (237 words)

	CNEWS - World - Iraq: Protesters seize San Salvador cathedral, demand troops be withdrawn from Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) _ Masked demonstrators who stormed the main cathedral in El Salvador's capital demanded the country's new president withdraw troops from Iraq and re-hire dozens of fired government employees.
		Demonstrators in masks remained in control of the cathedral late Wednesday night and appeared ready to spend the night.
		Police were barred from entering the cathedral because church authorities had yet to ask them to retake the cathedral, apparently afraid of the violence that might occur.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/World/Iraq/2004/04/29/pf-441067.html (322 words)

	Oviedo - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		King Fruela I, the fourth of the Asturian monarchs, was the first decided promoter of the city as may be witnessed by his construction of both a palace and a nearby church.
		During this period the city became the centre of an original and unique architectural expression, inheritor of Visigothic, Moorish and Nordic traditions, which was to reach its high point during the reign of Ramiro I.
		Cathedral of San Salvador, from 14th century, founded in 1388 over the chapel founded in the 8th century.
	www.iridis.com /Oviedo (571 words)

	BustedHalo.com/Human Dimensions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador surprised the minority wealthy and the majority poor in the 1970s, when he spoke out against economic injustice and military repression in El Salvador.
		The murals behind the altar are beautiful, and underneath the church is the tomb of the fallen archbishop.
		U.S. visitors to El Salvador will grasp in a deeper way why there is an annual Catholic-led pilgrimage of 10,000 protestors to Georgia each November opposing the School of the Americas (now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).
	www.bustedhalo.com /archive/2003_31dimensions.htm (863 words)

	San Salvador de Jujuy -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The cathedral at San Salvador de Jujuy, Arg.
		The capital and largest city of the Republic of El Salvador, San Salvador is one of the major cities of Central America.
		Salvador de Madariaga was a Spanish writer and statesman.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9065392 (763 words)

	OVIEDO FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		During this period the city became the centre of an original and unique architectural expression, inheritor of Visigothic, Moorish and Nordic traditions, which was to reach its high point during the reign of Ramiro_I.
		The moving of the royal court to LeÃ³n, after the death of Alfonso_III, The Great, links the life of the city to the relics preserved in its cathedral and the passing of pilgrims that visit El Salvador, and continue on their way to Santiago de Compostela.
		Cathedral of San Salvador, from 14th_century, erected in 1388 over the previous cathedral, which was founded in the 8th century.
	www.dontpayyourtaxes.com /Oviedo (544 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Election 2004 - El Salvador \| PBS
		Passing through customs at El Salvador's international airport and emerging into the humid afternoon air, the first thing in my line of vision is a crowd of about 1,000 who have come by the truckload, children in tow, men wearing cowboy hats, to greet relatives returning home.
		El Salvador is the only other country in the Americas still contributing troops to the coalition in Iraq.
		El Salvador's president, Elias Antonio "Tony" Saca, sent 381 soldiers to Iraq in response to an appeal from the Bush administration, despite the unpopularity of the Iraq war with most Salvadorans.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/elections/elsalvador/index.html (4201 words)

	Ibanez artist biography
		In 1993, he produced a painting for St Peter’s Basilica, Rome and in the same year, the official inauguration took place of the Vault of the Chapel of the Esperanza in Malaga.
		This was followed two years later by Ibanez’s first painting for the Cathedral of San Salvador.
		In 1997, he completed an altarpiece for San Salvador Cathedral as well as eight paintings for the Basilica de la Merced in Madrid.
	www.collect-art.com /bio.asp?a=3055 (387 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Officials in El Salvador say masked protesters seized control of the nation's main cathedral Wednesday, demanding, among other things, that Salvadorian troops be pulled out of Iraq.
		Witnesses say at least 24 protesters stormed the cathedral in the capital, San Salvador.
		Associated Press reports the protesters remained in control of the cathedral late Wednesday and appeared ready to spend the night there.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/fy/E56FE53A-5086-4D1C-89E0F5EB29F9EF39.html (167 words)

	ON THIS DAY \| 9 \| 1979 Witness to a massacre
		They were symbolically "holding" the cathedral - there were barricades around the main steps leading up into it and there were a number of masked sign-carrying "leftists" on the steps.
		It was not at all a tense atmosphere - pretty much the routine for a demonstration in the middle of San Salvador.
		We were on the steps working up close, taking some tight shots of the demonstrators, when I looked up and spotted a line of national police in their riot gear marching up the side of the street.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/witness/may/9/newsid_3011000/3011141.stm (702 words)

	El Salvador Travel Guide @ TravelNotes.org
		Since the Spanish established themselves here in 1528, San Salvador has been hit by several earthquakes and the community suffered during the civil war in the 1980s.
		The city is the second largest in El Salvador and lies to the north of the volcano with the same name, in area rich in coffee.
		The cathedral at Santa Ana still stands, and you can also visit ruins of the ancient city of Chalchuapa.
	www.travelnotes.org /LatinAmerica/el_salvador.htm (290 words)

	Pig History - El Salvador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On this day in 1979 - police open fire on a group of protesters in front of a cathedral in San Salvador - El Salvador.
		Two columns of national police surrounded the crowd as they listened to speeches, the police then fired on the crowd with assault rifles, without giving warning to disperse.
		El Salvador was the scene of bitter fighting between leftists and right wing death squads.
	www.nerdojo.com /archives/000208pig_history_el_salvador.html (156 words)

	Monuments - Oviedo & Asturias, Spain Travel Guide - BootsnAll.com
		Tours of San Miguel del Lillo and Santa Maria del Naranco are held, in Spanish, until 2pm, except Sundays.
		San Julian de Los Prados is a bit more easily accessible, as it lies to the west side of the city along the highway to Gijon.
		The cathedral stands strong in the heart of the casco antiguo with its Gothic spire shooting toward the sky out of the 9th-century foundation.
	www.bootsnall.com /europetravelguides/oveast/aug02monuments.shtml (438 words)

	Ex-workers Mount Month-Long Hunger Strike in El Salvador as CAFTA Looms
		Unable to meet the most basic of needs for themselves and their families, and with little prospect of finding new employment, the hunger strikers felt they were left with no option but to challenge the government's policies with their lives.
		Six workers began the hunger strike on May 26 in front of the National Cathedral in San Salvador, and were later joined by 2 others on June 8.
		Alexandra Goncalves studies international law at the Vermont Law School, and is currently in El Salvador conducting research on the relationships between free trade and human rights violations.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0623-23.htm (895 words)

	Worldisround - El Salvador August 2003 - San Salvador photos
		San Salvador - travel photos - Here are a few of the pictures that I made last August in El Salvador.
		All of these pictures are in and around San Salvador, the capital city.
		San Salvador has recovered from many of the years of war and the city has new freeways, a new airport and is very modern.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/45115 (131 words)

	Priests of the Sacred Heart - Where We Work.
		Bishop Marcello Palentini, SCJ, is the Ordinary of San Salvador de Jujuy in Argentina.
		He was born in 1943, made his first profession of vows in 1961, ordained a priest in 1970, and consecrated a bishop in 1995.
		This was the very plan he used at General San Martin in the Chaco province when he was the pastor of a parish for 11 years prior to being named bishop.
	www.poshusa.org /missloc1004.html (317 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 9 \| 1979: El Salvador cathedral bloodbath
		Trouble peaked some 50 years ago when a peasant revolt, in protest of the abject poverty many were forced to live in, led to the killing of 30,000 people and came to be known as La Matanza (the Slaughter).
		During the 1980s, El Salvador was ravaged by a bitter civil war between right-wing government "death squads" and leading left-wing group FMLN.
		In 1992 a United Nations-brokered peace agreement ended the civil war, but no sooner had El Salvador begun to recover than it was hit by a series of natural disasters.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/9/newsid_2520000/2520219.stm (458 words)

	: : : Totally Spain : : : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Here one can admire the churches of La Lugareja, San Martin and Santa Maria all of which are notable from the point of view of Mudejar Art.
		In Olmedo it is worth seeing both the Church of San Andres and the Monastery of La Mejorada.
		In Cuellar, called the capital of the Mudejar World, you may visit the churches of San Martin; which is home to the Centre of the Interpretation of Mudejar Art, San Esteban and El Salvador (The Saviour).
	www.totallyspain.com /itin_24.asp (445 words)

	: : : Totally Spain : : : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Once capital of the Taifa in the 11th Century, still preserves superb examples of the mudejar art, such as the Castle-Palace of Aljaferia, the Cathedral of San Salvador or La Seo and the Churches of; San Pablo, La Magdalena, San Miguel and San Gil.
		Full day spent exploring the area west and south west of Jaca including the Monastery of San Juan de la Peña which has two interesting churches inside dating from the 10th and 13th centuries.
		The l3th church has an especially interesting main pantheon, considered the most complete Romanesque pantheon in Spain, but the cloister is even more so: it is covered by a vault hewn out of the rock and its capitals depict different religious subjects.
	www.totallyspain.com /itin_29.asp (640 words)

	Institute for Latino Studies :: Southern Darkness, Southern Light: Photographs from Latin America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		José Napoleon Duarte, a 1948 Notre Dame graduate, had been a popular mayor of San Salvador before he was elected president in 1984.
		I was told he was saying a prayer to mother earth, asking forgiveness for piercing her skin but knowing she would not be upset, as it was not done out of malice but only to survive.
		Roberto D’Aubuisson founded the ruling ARENA political party in El Salvador and was the organizer of many of the country’s death squads.
	www.nd.edu /~latino/events/s_moriarty/exhibit.htm (932 words)

	Cinergía Movie File: Salvador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For instance, cables and reports from the U.S. embassy in San Salvador verify the involvement of high-ranking members of the armed forces and of ARENA in the planning and operation of death-squad activities in El Salvador in the 1980’s-19890’s.
		For instance, facts since 1931 until the present are illustrated, and in relation to the civil war represented in “Salvador”, the election of Jose Napoleon Duarte by the junta is explained as well as the small land-reform program.
		It is the only time in which the rebel camp is shown in the film and in which they are given a voice, and the reference to taking Santa Ana foreshadows their semi-successful attack until U.S. restored military aid to the army and Guardia Civil.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /smexpos/cinergia/salvador.htm (3689 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cathedral of San Salvador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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		Preromanesque: on the upper floor of the Holy Chamber (The Chapel of San Miguel) the Apostolate sculpture group is to be found, as well as the Jewels of the Asturian monarchy (The Cross of Victory, The Cross of the Angels, The Agates’ Box, etc.) and the Holy Coffer with its relics.
		The XI century Romanesque tower of the old basilica may still be seen.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cathedral-of-San-Salvador (241 words)

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