San Salvador, El Salvador News

BBC readers in El Salvador describe their experiences of the devastating floods and landslides, which have killed at least 130 people and have left about 7,000 living in shelters.

A devastating storm that struck El Salvador over the weekend was not the hurricane that roared through the region at the same time and, in fact, it did not even merit a name - which meant little after at least 140 people were killed when rivers burst their banks and hillsides collapsed under a siege of relentless rain.

Floods and mudslides caused by heavy rains washed out roads and bridges around the country Nov.

UNICEF s office in El Salvador has begun the first phase of humanitarian assistance to children affected by Tropical Storm Ida.

Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites.

Cruz Ayala, 55, weeps inconsolably over the bodies of his 71-year-old mother, Catalina, and his 15-year-old niece Carolina outside of a chapel in the town of Verapaz in the central Salvadoran province of San Vicente.

People work at a site damaged by heavy rains and Hurricane Ida in Verapaz, about 71 km east to San Salvador November 8, 2009 [REUTERS/Juan Carlos, courtesy www.alertnet.org] We are in contact with our partners in El Salvador as they assess the damage caused by major flooding and heavy rains in the country and plan their response More than 120 ...

Workers walk along a street that was damaged by heavy rain in San Martin on the outskirts of San Salvador, Sunday, Nov.

SAN SALVADOR: Floods and landslides killed at least 130 people in El Salvador and sent 10,000 fleeing their homes on Monday after a late-season hurricane devastated swaths of mountainous Central America.

The sky above Salvadoran capital El Salvador appeared clear Tuesday: a radiant sun shone to dry the remnants of a weekend of weather chaos that changed whole landscapes.

With concerts and memorials today, Germans will celebrate the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down 20 years ago.

Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town Sunday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 91 people, authorities said.

At least 40 people have been killed in El Salvador by flooding caused by days of heavy rain, the government says The authorities have declared a state of emergency in five regions and expect to find more victims, Interior Minister Humberto Centeno told reporters.

Written by Associated Press on Nov 4th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

El Salvador's defense minister says the army will send an additional 2,500 soldiers to crime-plagued parts of the country to increase security.

Spurning what he described as personal overtures from President Barack Obama, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Tuesday that negotiating with the U.S. was "naive and perverted" and that Iranian politicians should not enter such talks.

SAN SALVADOR, Oct 29 - Spatula in hand, forensic scientist Israel Ticas carefully excavates a decomposed human foot protruding from a shallow grave in rough terrain in the mountains of Las Crucitas, close to Ciudad Arce in the west-central Salvadoran province of La Libertad.

San Salvador, El Salvador, Oct 27, 2009 .- Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador expressed concern this week over the increase in violence in El Salvador and the likelihood that the government will employ military personnel to put an end to it.

Originally published October 22, 2009 at midnight, updated October 22, 2009 at 1:01 a.m. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador a ' El Salvador's Metapan prevented the Houston Dynamo from earning a spot in the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League with a 3-2 victory over the MLS club Wednesday.

El Salvador Gets 1st Cuban Ambassador Since 1960s Share + Oct 18, 2009 6:58 pm US/Eastern El Salvador Gets 1st Cuban Ambassador Since 1960s SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador The first Cuban ambassador to El Salvador since the early 1960s has presented his credentials, the government of leftist President Mauricio Funes said Sunday.