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  El Salvador 1980-94 KH
If the insurgents in El Salvador, the smallest country by far in all of Central and south America, were engaged in what Ronald Reagan perceived as a plot to capture the Western Hemisphere, others saw it as the quintessential revolution.
Fabio Castillo, a former president of the National University and a member of the ousted government, testified years later before the US Congress that in the process of overthrowing the reform government, the American Embassy immediately began to "intervene directly", and "members of the U.S. Military Mission openly intensified their invitation to conspiracy and rebellion".
The extent of American mercenary involvement in El Salvador is not known, but Lawrence Bailey, a former US Marine, has stated that he was part of a team of 40 American soldiers of fortune paid by wealthy Salvadorean families living in Miami to protect their plantations from takeover by the rebels.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Blum/ElSalvador_KH.html   (2980 words)

  
 President Bush Meets with President Flores in El Salvador
El Salvador -- and the reason why I believe that is because of the success of the country.
Presidents, the benefits, the needed benefits of a free trade agreement can delay themselves, if we are not mistaken, to arrive to our countries, maybe five, six years, because the mechanism is a bilateral mechanism, bilateral negotiation.
PRESIDENT FLORES: I just wanted to say, just to close this conference, that El Salvador, through myself, wants to express their profound appreciation to the United States of America for having accompanied us in so many difficult times.
www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2002/03/20020324-2.html   (3031 words)

  
 [25 Sep 1999]: PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF EL SALVADOR
El Salvador would announce on 15 October whether it would participate in the Ibero-American Summit to be held in Havana, the president of El Salvador, Francisco Guillermo Flores Perez, said this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference.
With El Salvador’s peace pact barely seven years old, he answered, reconciliation was new and the effects of the war were still keenly felt.
El Salvador’s relations with Cuba were complex and its ties with Cuba had various dimensions at home that were not relevant to other countries concerned in the Summit.
www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/1999/19990925.elsalvador.doc.html   (1063 words)

  
 Politics of El Salvador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Politics of El Salvador takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of El Salvador is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
El Salvador elects its head of state – the President of El Salvador – directly through a fixed-date general election whose winner is decided by absolute majority.
Also in 1993, the Government of El Salvador and the UN established the Joint Group to investigate whether illegal, armed, politically motivated groups continued to exist after the signing of the peace accords.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_El_Salvador   (1767 words)

  
 President's Trip to El Salvador
El Salvador is a stable, developing democracy and among our closest allies in Latin America.
El Salvador has supported us on questions of less immediate importance for Salvadorans, such as enforcement of UNSC resolutions relating to Iraq, and on issues close to home, such as siting in El Salvador a forward-operating location for airborne counternarcotics activities.
President Flores has set as a core objective of his administration the negotiation of free trade agreements with El Salvador's top ten trading partners by 2003.
www.whitehouse.gov /infocus/elsalvadortrip   (375 words)

  
 President Of El Salvador, El Salvador (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
El Salvador is a member of the United Nations and several of its specialized agencies, the Organization of American States (OAS), the Central American Common Market (CACM), the Central American Parliament, and the Central American Integration System.
El Salvador is a constitutional, multiparty democracy with an executive branch headed by a president and a unicameral legislature.
El Salvador is a constitutional, multiparty democracy with a unicameral legislature, an independent judiciary, and an executive branch headed by a president.
creekin.net.cob-web.org:8888 /k9804-n59-president-of-el-salvador-el-salvador.html   (936 words)

  
 CNN - New El Salvador president vows to fight crime, boost economy - June 1, 1999
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNN) -- A former professor of philosophy on Tuesday became El Salvador's youngest president ever and vowed to tackle the country's two most daunting challenges: economic development and crime.
El Salvador's murder rate is 12 times that of New York and people are being killed at a greater rate now than during the civil war.
El Salvador still has a frail economy, the result of the civil war between leftist guerrillas and a succession of U.S.-supported rightist governments backed by the military.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9906/01/salvador.prexy/index.html   (577 words)

  
 El Salvador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
President elect Antonio Saca of the ARENA party was elected with 58 percent of the vote, following a highly politicized campaign.
Violence continues to plague El Salvador ’s post-conflict society, which is characterized by high crime and citizen insecurity.
The roots of El Salvador’s rural crisis lie in inequitable land distribution that pre-dates the civil war.
www.wola.org /central_america/salvador/salvador_countrypage.htm   (744 words)

  
 President's Central America Trip: El Salvador
El Salvador's early history as an independent state-as with others in Central America-was marked by frequent revolutions; not until the period 1900-1930 was relative stability achieved.
El Salvador's external debt decreased sharply in 1993, chiefly as a result of an agreement under which the United States forgave about $461 million of official debt.
El Salvador is a member of the United Nations and several of its specialized agencies; the Organization of American States (OAS); the Central American Common Market (CACM); the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN); and the Central American Integration System (SICA).
clinton4.nara.gov /WH/New/centralam/elsalvador.html   (4977 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   (4221 words)

  
 Equipo Nizkor - Report of the UN Truth Commission on El Salvador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As this Commission submits its report, El Salvador is embarked on a positive and irreversible process of consolidation of internal peace and modification of conduct for the maintenance of a genuine, lasting climate of national coexistence.
El Salvador ratified the Covenant on 30 November 1979 and the American Convention on 23 June 1978.
Although the armed conflict in El Salvador was not an international conflict as defined by the Conventions, it did meet the requirements for the application of article 3 common to the four Conventions.
www.derechos.org /nizkor/salvador/informes/truth.html   (18266 words)

  
 Q&A: Tony Saca; President of El Salvador | The San Diego Union-Tribune
The majority of the businesses in El Salvador will be able to export their products with greater freedom to the United States.
El Salvador at this moment is in the process of modernizing its labor laws.
El Salvador had a stormy history in the last half of the 20th century.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050522/news_lz1e22saca.html   (2053 words)

  
 Caribbean Net News: Former President of El Salvador visits Antigua-Barbuda PM
ST JOHN'S, Antigua: Former President of El Salvador and candidate for the position of Secretary General of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Francisco Flores, on Thursday paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Baldwin Spencer.
President Flores, who is on a tour of the region seeking support for his candidacy at the OAS, during his discussion with Prime Minister Spencer, outlined his background and the accomplishments of his administration while he was the President of El Salvador.
President Flores also congratulated Prime Minister Spencer on the accomplishments so far of his administration outlining that his government has already projected to the international community that the business of running government has changed in the interest of the people.
www.caribbeannetnews.com /2005/02/12/visits.shtml   (391 words)

  
 El Salvador: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
El Salvador, with the other countries of Central America, declared its independence from Spain on Sept. 15, 1821, and was part of a federation of Central American states until that union dissolved in 1838.
El Salvador: Bibliography - Bibliography See T. Anderson, Matanza: El Salvador's Communist Revolt of 1932 (1971); D. El Salvador: Economy - Economy El Salvador's economy is primarily agricultural, with farming employing about 40% of the...
El Salvador: Government - Government El Salvador is governed under the 1991 constitution.
www.infoplease.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ipa/A0107489.html   (785 words)

  
 President of El Salvador Confronted over CAFTA : LA IMC
The Salvador president was meeting with business people at an elite Beverly Hills hotel early Monday morning to sell the "investment benefits" of CAFTA when five young Salvadorans, who had registered for the session, opened up with questions challenging his facts and his motivations.
President Saca cut short the q and a and said the young people "obviously had not been to El Salvador and did not know the situation there."
Outside the hotel the five told reporters that they had visited El Salvador and that was part of their motivation to confront Saca.
la.indymedia.org /news/2005/05/126264.php   (399 words)

  
 El Salvadorian Colon, SVC, Information on the Currency of El Salvador
The President and Vice President of the republic, who are elected on the same ticket by popular vote to serve five-year terms, lead the executive branch.
The President of El Salvador is Antonio Saca, who was elected in March 2004 and will serve his current term until 2009.
The central bank of El Salvador is Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador; the bank is run by a directive board led by the President of the bank, Luz Maria S. de Potillo.
www.gocurrency.com /countries/el_salvador.htm   (632 words)

  
 President Of El Salvador Plans To Send Fresh Troops To Iraq - Sean Hannity Discussion
"El Salvador has been a country that has survived a civil war led by foreign fighters; we suffered and struggled against terrorism, and because we prevailed we want to return the favor to international community for the support we had (during the 1980-1992 civil war).
The 380 member team called Cuzcatlan Battalion V, an elite unit of the Salvadoran Army, is already training in a Special Forces Command Base located at the east of the San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, and is awaiting deployment to Iraq.
El Salvador is the only Latin American country that has soldiers deployed in Iraq at the request of the United States.
www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=17421   (383 words)

  
 El Salvador's President Reaffirms Decision to Support Coalition Forces in Iraq
Washington, D.C., July 13, 2004 - The president of El Salvador, Elías Antonio Saca, told the Voice of America today that his country's latest troop deployment to Iraq is an attempt to help restore tranquility to that country.
President Saca said, "I think the opportunity for trade and for investment and the opportunity to export to the United States without having to pay taxes is an great occasion that can generate much employment in our region."
President Saca also said he found a willingness from President Bush to address the situation of the almost 250,000 Salvadorans who are seeking shelter in the United States under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) which will expire on March 9, 2005.
www.voanews.com /english/archive/2004-07/salvadorsupportscoalition.cfm   (472 words)

  
 El Salvador’s president gives talk on trade policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Mayor Richard Daley (left to right) Susan Mayer, Dean of the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, President of El Salvador Elías Antonio Saca Gonzáles, and President Randel, pose during a reception for Saca, who was visiting the University to speak on trade policy at the Harris School.
The President of El Salvador, Elías Antonio Saca Gonzáles, spoke about trade policy to a packed audience of policy-makers, students and faculty at an event sponsored Monday, Sept. 19 by the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies.
President Randel, Susan Mayer, Dean of the Harris School, and Chicago First Lady Maggie Daley introduced President Saca with their welcoming remarks.
chronicle.uchicago.edu /051006/elsalvador.shtml   (241 words)

  
 President of El Salvador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There has been a total of 55 presidents; many have served in office more than once.
Salvador Castaneda Castro: 1 March 1945 - 14 December 1948
See also: lists of incumbents, History of El Salvador, History of Central America.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/President_of_El_Salvador   (783 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Salvador condemns massacre probe
Salvadorean President Tony Saca has criticised a decision to re-open an inquiry into one of the bloodiest incidents of the country's civil war.
Mr Saca said re-opening such cases could be dangerous for El Salvador because it had put its past behind it.
The president also rejected calls to revoke El Salvador's amnesty law, saying it had brought "peace and stability".
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/4352741.stm   (291 words)

  
 USAID: Latin America and the Caribbean - Ana Vilma de Escobar, Vice President of El Salvador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After her work at USAID, Vice President de Escobar worked in the banking sector in El Salvador and was eventually named to the Board of Directors for the Arena Party.
She was later asked to join former President Francisco Flores’ cabinet as head of the country’s National Social Security Institute, a department with over 11,000 employees and 200 service centers.
Meanwhile, Vice President de Escobar is not the only alumna of USAID in the El Salvador government.
www.usaid.gov /locations/latin_america_caribbean/country/el_salvador/elsal_vp.html   (494 words)

  
 El Salvador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The government of El Salvador is integrated by an Executive Branch, Legislative Branch and a Judicial Branch.
The Executive Branch of the government is made up of the President, Vice-President, their Cabinet of Secretaries, a series of Superintendences, and the 14 Ministries.
The President is the head of the Executive Branch, aided in turn by a Vice-President.
www.el-salvador.org.il /eng/inside.php?cat=Government   (379 words)

  
 El Salvador 1980-1994: Human Rights, Washington Style
For as long as anyone could remember, the reins of E1 Salvador's government had resided in the hands of one military dictatorship or another, while the economy had been controlled by the celebrated 14 coffee and industrial families, with only the occasional, short-lived bursting of accumulated discontent to disturb the neat arrangement.
In E1 Salvador, American aid was used for police training in the 1950's and 1960's and many officers in the three branches of the police later became leaders of the right-wing death squads that killed tens of thousands of people in the late 1970's and early 1980's.5
One of the civilians, Minister of Education Salvador Samayoa, in front of the TV cameras, simultaneously announced his resignation and his enlistment with a guerrilla group.TM For those who continued to harbor illusions, a steady drumbeat of terrorism soon brought them into the fold.
www.uakron.edu /worldciv/pascher/salvador.html   (7854 words)

  
 Ex-workers Mount Month-Long Hunger Strike in El Salvador as CAFTA Looms
According to William Huezo, president of AGEPYM, the legal reforms which allowed the workers to be dismissed are a mechanism for downsizing the state.
Thomas Pearson studies cultural anthropology at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and is currently in El Salvador conducting research on the politics of neoliberal state restructuring.
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 /views05/0623-23.htm   (1038 words)

  
 The history of the Republic of El Salvador under President Caleron Sol (1994–1999)
Salvadoran President Calderon Sol denounced Gabo garment and ASTTEL workers for campaigning in the U.S. against labor and human rights violations in El Salvador.
Over the objections of President Calderon Sol, the Legislative Assembly has for the first time earmarked a significant portion of El Salvador's national budget for municipal governments to provide services locally.
In the past, while the industry in larger towns and cities provided some tax base, residents of rural El Salvador have suffered from poor services their municipalities couldn't afford.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/47/index-dbc.html   (439 words)

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