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  El Salvador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
El Salvador is the most densely populated nation on the American mainland (especially in its capital, San Salvador) and also the most industrialized country in the region.
El Salvador shares borders with Guatemala—126 miles (203 km) and Honduras—212.5 miles (342 km), and is the only Central American country that does not have a Caribbean coastline.
Politics of El Salvador takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of El Salvador (Antonio Saca) is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/El_Salvador   (3033 words)

  
 Best Practices & Local Leadership Programme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Villa El Salvador is a district in metropolitan Lima, the capital city of Peru.
Villa El Salvador is home to people of diverse cultures who come from all over the country and 340,000 of its inhabitants live below the poverty line.
The project was initiated in consultation with the residents of Villa El Salvador who were involved from the formulation of objectives to the implementation of the programme.
www.sustainabledevelopment.org /chengdu/presentations/elsalvador.htm   (2595 words)

  
 Guatemala El Salvador & Costa Rica Tours Adventures Abroad
The city was founded in 1737 as Villa Nueva de la Boca del Monte del Valle de Abra, as the expanding population of the colony of Costa Rica moved westward from Cartago, then the capital.
One of dozens of farming centres in a valley of forests, pastures and little plots of subsistence crops, San JosÈ -- the name of the town was shortened to that of its patron saint -- became the capital of Costa Rica during the brief upheavals that followed independence.
San Salvador is situated in the Valle de las Hamacas ("Valley of Hammocks"), at an elevation of approximately 600 m (2000 ft).
www.adventures-abroad.com /travel/central-america/C11.htm   (3010 words)

  
 Peru, Villa El Salvador, The Creation of a Self-Managed Urban Community - Toolkit Citizen Participation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Recently Villa El Salvador has become one of the first municipalities to incorporate public computers' outlets in its democracy.
They are equipped with interactive devices, so that Villa's inhabitants not only can receive information about the topics of the day, but give their opinions and comment too.
Collective work has been used in Villa El Salvador in the construction of every public work and service, next to the allocations of funds from the state.
www.toolkitparticipation.nl /cases/26   (749 words)

  
 The Militant - February 14, 2000 -- In Brief
Homeless peasants defended themselves against attacks by landowners in the Villa El Salvador district of the Peruvian capital of Lima on January 27.
Villa El Salvador was founded in 1971 by about 200 families from Lima's slums and shantytowns, who seized a piece of government-owned land.
The district's numbers have swelled as tens of thousands of peasants from the Andes have migrated to the city in search of work.
www.themilitant.com /2000/6406/640631.html   (915 words)

  
 Gray Line Tours El Salvador - Truly, the local expert .::Hotels::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
With meeting facilities that range from the largest ballroom in El Salvador to a superb amphitheater-style training facility, the Hotel San Salvador is an excellent choice for a wide range of events.
Comfort Hotel Real Aeropuerto El Salvador is only five minutes from Comalapa International Airport and less than 30 minutes from the city of San Salvador and all the enchantment that surrounds it.
Villa Serena Escalon, is located in the hart of the finance zone close to the best shopping malls and the zona viva know as La Zona Rosa.
www.graylineelsalvador.com /hotels.html   (1628 words)

  
 News Search: el salvador
As it once tackled the Mafia, eliminating the brutal Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS-13) that got its start in El Salvador more than 20 years ago is the top priority of the FBI 's criminal-enterprise branch.
LORENA DURATE/TERESA ORTIZ: Durate, an El Salvador -born performer and associate editor of La Prensa de Minnesota, and Ortiz, Mexican poet, educator and activist,...
El vicepresidente del Consejo de Ministros y titular del Comite Olimpico Cubano, Jose Ramon Fernandez, destaco que el 88 por ciento...
www.topix.net /search?q=el+salvador&start=60   (747 words)

  
 El Salvador - Santa Ana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Coatepeque Lake and the Cathedral are two scenes by which the beautiful city of Santa Ana (El Salvador) is distinguished.
Chalchuapa: is divided in one city of the same name, one villa that is Candelaria de la Frontera and two towns: El Porvenir and San Sebastian Salitrillo.
The most famous cathedral in El Salvador was begun in 1905 in a neo-gothic style.
www.imagiverse.org /resources/world/elsalvador/santa_ana.htm   (514 words)

  
 El Salvador - lodging, hotels, bed and breakfast, hostels, estancias - directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hotel Terraza - San Salvador - The four-story modern style building is located in Colonia Escalón residential area of the city.
Villa Serena Hotels - Provides photos and rates for two modern establishments.
El Salvador Tour Operators, travel wholesalers and adventure outfitters.
www.southamericatour.net /el-salvador-lodging.htm   (691 words)

  
 ICHR Crinmes of the Fujimori Regime
Arrest and Disappearance of residents of Villa el Salvador District of Lima.
Edith Galvan, the young sister of two political prisoners, as well as other two residents at the Pachacamac sector of Villa El Salvador, were kidnaped from their homes by members of the armed forces.
In the city of Trujillo, six minors remain incarcerated in "El Milagro" jail for the alleged charge of "terrorism, " this was reported even by the official Peruvian press (enclosed a copy of the daily El Comercio of November 17, 1992).
www.blythe.org /peru-pcp/rights/geno.htm   (4519 words)

  
 SOA Watch
The protesters, mostly women, carried pictures of loved ones on placards with the words, "Where are they?" As they marched, they shouted their support for the Spanish judge who is trying to bring Pinochet to justice.
Among the SOA graduates cited in the Spanish court case are the former heads of the CNI and DINA secret police, the officers who tortured and murdered a U.N. official, and those who participated in the assault on the residence of president Salvador Allende.
In 1993, the United Nations Truth Commission Report on El Salvador cited the officers responsible for the worst atrocities committed during that country’s brutal civil war.
www.soaw.org /new/article.php?id=343   (5151 words)

  
 University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
Castillo-Páez' next-of-kin (Judgment of August 19, 1991, of the Fourteenth Criminal Court of the Judicial District of Lima, Attachment VI to the application; testimony of Augusto Zúñiga-Paz).
Castillo-Páez' arrest and, in support of the denial, presented evidence in the form of reports from policemen on duty at the Villa El Salvador Precinct Station, and from other units involved in the October 21, 1990 operation.
However, the Court considers that evidence to be insufficient to refute the statements of the aforementioned witnesses.
www1.umn.edu /humanrts/iachr/C/34-ing.html   (6260 words)

  
 Travel Resources for El Salvador from office1000.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hotel Lagoa e Mar is 20 minutes from the Salvador airport close to Praia de Jaua beach, north of the historic town of Salvador.
Situated in one of the most exclusive areas in El Salvador, the quiet hotel is close to banks, churches, and two of the largest shopping malls in the country.
Ecopetrol Km Embassy Of Austria Km Embassy Of El Salvador Km Embassy Of Hungary Km Embassy Of India Km Embassy Of Indonesia Km Embassy Of Israel Km Embassy Of Japan Km Embassy Of Paraguay Km Embassy Of Peru
travel.office1000.com /ElSalvador.html   (2701 words)

  
 This weeks featured project : Médecins Sans Frontières Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Médecins Sans Frontières has launched an HIV/AIDS treatment project in Villa El Salvador, a poor suburb on the southern side of Lima with a population of 350,000.
Médecins Sans Frontières is also creating a range of tools for informing patients and their caretakers of what is needed for successful AIDS care and treatmnent, a consider able challenge given the high level of illiteracy in Villa El Salvador.
In March 2003, Médecins Sans Frontières’ mucocutaneous leishmaniasis treatment program in the San Martin de Pangoa district of Satipo came to an end; the two-year program improved detection and treatment of cases as well as the capacity of area health staff to address the disease.
www.msf.org.au /stories/twproject/2004/056twp.shtml   (804 words)

  
 Ashoka Fellow Profile - Liliana Raquel Miranda Sara
For example, the cement or clay bricks typically used to build houses can be replaced by locally produced sand bricks, which, when built and reinforced properly, hold up better in earthquakes than clay.
In communities that have water only a few days a week, such as Lima's Villa El Salvador district, Liliana is working with communities to perfect the use of gray water systems and introducing two-way toilets, which separate liquids and solids, thus reducing needless waste of water.
More than just showing individual families the benefits of sustainable building, Liliana is also working with communities to develop public land, creating community-designed green spaces and common areas that everyone can enjoy.
www.ashoka.org /fellows/viewprofile3.cfm?reid=96804   (1657 words)

  
 Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution
It is thought that Saenz, nicknamed “Gringo,” was part of the Shining Path death squad that gunned down Maria Elena Moyano, known as “Mother Courage,” at a fundraising event in Villa El Salvador.
The community leader was slain in front of her two youngest children and her body was dynamited at the orders of Abimael Guzman, then Shining Path’s top leader, because she had opposed his guerrilla group’s attempt to take over grassroots organizations in the Villa El Salvador district.
In Oct. 2000, Peruvian authorities arrested Jenny Romero Coro, alias “Comrade Lucero,” who belonged to the group that killed “Mother Courage.” Moyano, who organized soup kitchens, community clinics and economic development programs and later served as mayor of Villa El Salvador, was honored in 1987 with Spain’s Asturias Prize.
www.publiuspundit.com /?p=2562   (495 words)

  
 El Salvador: Travel & Tourism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Quote from site: "El Salvador's name still evokes images of the brutal civil war fought throughout the 1980s in the tangle of mountains and farmlands that quilt the smallest country in Central America.
The war, however, is over and the most turbulent aspect of El Salvador today is thankfully just its volcanic landscape.
Borbon is a direct derivative of old arabica, which produces a cup quality of delicate taste, clean, agreeable exquisite aroma, and added to these, excellent acidity and body.
www.escapeartist.com /elsalvador/elsalvador5.htm   (790 words)

  
 MSF-USA: 2003 Activity Report - Peru
Activities include education, treatment of related infections such as tuberculosis, and home based care for those living in poor urban areas; introduction of antiretroviral therapy is foreseen for 2004.
MSF continues to address the problem of violence against children and adolescents in Lima's Villa El Salvador district.
In March 2003, MSF's mucocutaneous leishmaniasis treatment program in the San Martin de Pangoa district of Satipo came to an end; the two-year program improved detection and treatment of cases as well as the capacity of area health staff to address the disease.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org /publications/ar/i2003/peru.cfm   (224 words)

  
 University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
The Group welcomes the prompt and complete response of the Government of Peru to its inquiry and the comments provided by the source.
According to the complaint, Eleuterio Zárate Luján was arrested at his home in Lima, Villa El Salvador district, on 3 July 1993 by agents of the National Counterterrorism Directorate (DINCOTE), Delta 3 Unit, who did not produce an arrest warrant.
(a) terrorist attack resulting in the death of the Deputy Mayor of Villa El Salvador, María Elena Moyano; (b) terrorist attack on the Fuji Restaurant; and (c) killing of a citizen considered to be a “soplón” (informer).
www1.umn.edu /humanrts/wgad/11-2000.html   (912 words)

  
 americas.org - Squatters Demand Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
They had moved to Ventanilla on February 3, 2000, under the auspices of the “Special Pachacútec Project,” set up by the government of then-President Alberto Fujimori after thousands of people seized land in Lima’s Villa El Salvador district.
The Fujimori government initially encouraged the Villa El Salvador takeovers, according to opponents; then, after sending police helicopters to drop tear gas on the squatters, the government persuaded many of them to relocate to Ventanilla with the promise that services would be provided there.
Fujimori’s opponents say his regime orchestrated the whole conflict as an electoral ploy to create new voting districts.
www.americas.org /item_6617   (140 words)

  
 Wilkes Latest Wilkes News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Through the international non-profit organization, Cross-Cultural Solutions, the volunteers to Peru worked at Los Martincitos, a community-based senior center sponsored by the Catholic Church in Villa El Salvador, a district of Lima.
Victor shares technology with Nikol in Villa El Salvador.
Though its people have not escaped poverty, Villa is a model of community-managed social development.
www.wilkes.edu /pages/194.asp?item=9211   (912 words)

  
 MSF-USA: 2001 Activity Report - Peru
In Villa El Salvador, a district of Lima, MSF runs a prevention and care module for children and adolescents on sexual and reproductive health.
Primary health care projects in the departments of Junin, in the Amazon region, and Huancavelica, in the Andean region, were transferred to the Ministry of Health (MOH) in August 2000.
A primary care program for indigenous and mestizo people in the Amazon districts of Masisea and Iparia was handed over to the MOH in June 2001.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org /publications/ar/i2001/peru.cfm   (451 words)

  
 NOVICA - News - Developing World Artists’ Dot-Com
He purchased a computer and even hired an accountant to help organize the company's finances and pay taxes.
``Things have gone well,'' said the 37-year-old father of three, whose tapestries line the walls of his unfinished home in Lima's poor Villa El Salvador district.
Novica says that, by cutting out middlemen, it can pay craftsmen more than they would normally receive and charge buyers less than they would normally pay for the items it offers over its Web site: http://www.novica.com.
www.novica.com /news/index.cfm?articleid=100   (803 words)

  
 Tianyuan Villa Shanghai Villa Apartment Changning District Apartments Shanghai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Tianyuan Villa Shanghai Villa Apartment Changning District Apartments Shanghai
First floor is 2 halls, one kitchen, one toilet, baseroom, one garage, and a small swimming pool, there are 5 bedrooms, 1 storeroom and 2 toliets in 2nd floor.
All round there are villas, tennis, gym and so on.
www.moveandstay.com /apartments_description.asp?id=5817   (93 words)

  
 Register Internet Travel Accomocations for El Salvador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
We welcome all travel sites that about El Salvador.
The bottom line is, as a busy businessman who lives to travel, will your website answer this question for me....
If not, return to the main travel.office1000.com site and make your entry from the correct Country/State.
travel.office1000.com /internet.html?place=El+Salvador   (627 words)

  
 San Salvador Hotels, Hotel Directory of San Salvador, El Salvador Hotel Directory
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Hotel Princess Zona Rosa - Luxury hotel aimed to the business or leisure traveler who seeks class and comfort.
Hotel Terraza - San Salvador - The four-story modern style building is located in Colonia Escalon residential area of the city.
www.hoteldirectory.ws /el_salvador/sansalvador_hotels.htm   (160 words)

  
 HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Peruvian squatters get attention at election time; With seven weeks until he runs for a third term, President Fujimori promises land to the poor.(World)
A doubled-over straw mat and some blue plastic is what Maria Salazar has called "home sweet home" ever since she and 1,200 other families occupied the lot near Libertadores High School in the city's Villa El Salvador district last month.
Salazar's makeshift home are hundreds of similar constructions - many hung with Peruvian flags - a volleyball net, and a snack bar selling soft drinks and popcorn.
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:59662886&...   (187 words)

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