The US Secret Service is looking into allegations its employees paid for strippers and prostitutes in El Salvador ahead of a presidential visit.

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New sex claim hits Secret Service

LIMA, Peru — Paroled U.S. activist Lori Berenson was headed for New York early Saturday after a Peruvian court ruled she and her toddler son could travel there for the holidays, airport security officials said. Peru’s ATV television showed video of Berenson and her 2 1/2-year-old son, Salvador at the airport in front of a ticket counter late Friday and said she was flying to New York. Read full article > >

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US activist Lori Berenson heads to NY for holidays after Peruvian court OKs travel

Five years ago, Laurie Duker took a job helping abused women get restraining orders in Montgomery County. What she saw stunned her: Some judges belittled people or didn’t give women the protection Duker thought they needed. The final straw, she said, was when a judge asked a man where he was from, heard “El Salvador” and said from the bench: “Figures.” Read full article > >

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Watchdog group critiques Montgomery County judges who issue restraining orders

Chile is set to exhume the remains of former leader Salvador Allende to try to determine whether he was murdered or killed himself in 1973.

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A Chilean court orders the exhumation of Salvador Allende to determine whether the former leader was murdered or killed himself.

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Chile to exhume ex-leader Allende

Enough with the multitasking: President Obama is cutting short his trip to Latin America, leaving El Salvador on Tuesday evening and skipping a planned tour of Mayan ruins on Wednesday morning. “It’s logistical,” said a National Security Council…

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While debate about whether climate change is real or not continues in the US, the world’s leading producer of CO2 emissions per capita, those already living with the effects, like Jose Domingo Cruz in El Salvador, don’t have time to debate. read more

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Climate: Putting People Over Money

An immigrant from El Salvador is sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 2001 murder of US government intern Chandra Levy.

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Chandra Levy killer gets 60 years

A museum dedicated to some of Salvador Dali’s most famous paintings re-opens in the Florida city of St Petersburg.

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Dali museum re-opens in Florida

Mexico disputes El Salvador’s allegation that dozens of Central American migrants who had stowed away on a cargo train were kidnapped by gunmen.

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Mexico migrant abduction disputed

An immigrant from El Salvador is convicted of the 2001 murder of US intern Chandra Levy, a killing that made headlines around the world.

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Nine years after Chandra Levy’s disappearance, a Washington D.C. jury has found Ingmar Guandique, an illegal immigrant originally from El Salvador, guilty of first-degree murder. The jury-made up of nine women and three men-deliberated for three and a…

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Guilty Verdict in Chandra Levy Trial

A fire at a juvenile detention centre in El Salvador kills at least 16 inmates, officials say.

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El Salvador jail fire ‘kills 16′

El Salvador is semi-paralysed by a 72-hour transport strike called by street gangs in protest against a new law targeting them.

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Gang strike paralyses El Salvador

A third migrant survived a massacre that left 72 dead in a Mexican border state, and could play a key role in authorities’ investigation of the crime, El Salvador’s president said.

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3rd migrant survived Mexico massacre