Salvador, Brazil News

Chances are you have never heard of a capoeirista . But it's the name for artists who practice the dance form known as capoeira and they will definitely provide a jolt to your senses in Vail, Colorado Aug.

El Salvador's Cutuco Energy said Tuesday it plans after several delays to launch construction of its 160,000 cubic meters LNG regasification facility and 525 MW natural gas-fired power plant in El Salvador in 2011.

The Brit NGO New Economics Foundation has found the Philippines to be the 14th happiest place on earth.

Michael Jackson went from being Gary, Ind.'s most talented kid to one of the most recognizable human beings on the planet.

The presidents of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas nations Monday withdrew their ambassadors from Honduras and called on the nations of the continent to act against the coup in Honduras, after an emergency meeting in Managua.

" After 47 years, the Organization of American States, at its annual General Assembly, has repealed its suspension of Cuba's membership.

Many Philadelphians are familiar with Brazilian music and dance - samba, anyone? - and this weekend they'll also get a taste of Brazilian fashion.

The AH1N1 flu virus keeps on infecting more and more Ticos each day, with the total number of infected now at 93, according to the ministerio de Salud.

A day after it seemed the five-year battle to bring 9-year-old Sean Goldman back to his father's home in Tinton Falls was nearing a close, a Brazilian judge has stalled the reunion planned for this afternoon.

El Salvador's first left-wing president Mauricio Funes began his five-year term Monday with a ringing declaration that the Central American country's people "want change and change begins today" and promises to realize a "peaceful revolution" of institutional change and values amid cries of "Yes, we did it" and "The people united will never be ...

President Ma Ying-jeou received a promise from President-elect Mauricio Funes Sunday afternoon that the new left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front will retain official relations with Taiwan even if it deepens economic and trade ties with the People`s Republic of China.

The inauguration of El Salvador's first leftist president on Monday was another democratic landmark in Latin America, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's attendance at the ceremony was a welcome show of U.S. support for this peaceful transfer of power between parties that fought on opposite sides of the country's civil war.

A Brazilian supreme court justice on Tuesday suspended a court order granting immediate custody of a 9-year-old boy to his U.S. father, extending a multiyear battle that has reached the highest levels of both the Brazilian and U.S. governments.

El Salvador, which is Spanish for "the saviour" - or Jesus Christ - has been wracked by civil war and a succession of natural disasters.

Newly inaugurated El Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes Cartagena of the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front promised to launch a "peaceful revolution" to "reinvent" the Central American nation and lift it from the current economic and political crisis.

A federal court in Brazil has ruled that a New Jersey father should get custody of his 8-year-old son, whose mother took him to the South American nation after their divorce and died there, the man's lawyer said Monday.Attorney Patricia Apy, who represents David Goldman, said she was notified of the decision Monday afternoon.

Mauricio Funes was inaugurated Monday as El Salvador's president, promising to work for the nation's poor and disadvantaged.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton smiles as she greets other guests upon her arrival to the inauguration ceremony of El Salvador's new President Mauricio Funes in San Salvador, Monday, June 1, 2009.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began a visit to Central America Sunday, amid new US steps toward ties with Cuba that Washington hopes will slow a sudden regional push to end Havana's isolation.

It's been fifty years since El Salvador cut all diplomatic ties with Cuba, but now that the Central American country has elected a new leftist president, Cuba will soon have a new friend.