Mike Allison
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 00:00
Garcia was a student union leader who went missing in 1984 after being seen in police custody.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 00:00
Approximately 10,000 US-based Salvadorans will be eligible to vote in 2014. The candidates want money and political support but they aren't expecting the votes of Salvadorans in the US to matter.
Monday, September 9, 2013 - 00:00
It's still unclear what motivated the shooting spree. Local residents blame corrupt police officers.
Monday, July 22, 2013 - 00:00
Statistically, there's a two- or three-way tie depending on how one asks the question
Monday, July 22, 2013 - 00:00
Some of the attitudes are obviously driven by the fact that around 2 million Salvadorans live in the US. But the high marks are probably driven as well by our two leaders relationship with each other.
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 00:00
There is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding the case, including the motivation for the crime. It looks like those working out of the police station had received a threatening letter from the gang after the Deputy Inspector stole some of their money bu
Monday, June 10, 2013 - 00:00
There is a general consensus that the Honduran gangs are not as centralised as the Salvadoran gangs, which will make gang leaders' enforcement of a truce more difficult
Monday, May 20, 2013 - 00:00
Declassified documents indicate that the US wasn't as involved in the Guatemalan genocide in the early 1980s as much as many people think. Reagan's public statements were probably some of the most damaging things that we did.
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 00:00
Guatemala improved enough on last year's scoring to be eligible for the threshold grant. As I mentioned last week, though, I'm not sure that Guatemala has seen much improvement in the last six months. If anything, conditions have worsened
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 00:00
2014 is going to be pretty exciting in Central America with El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama each holding a presidential election