News El Salvador Tourism: El Salvador: What's Behind the Mass Exodus to the US?
EL SALVADOR — Thousands of Central American migrants seeking ... Milagro said at the very least, she hopes she can travel to the U.S. to make money and send support to her mom. A major factor behind ...
News El Salvador Tourism: Fatal attractions
Expect no help from the Peace Corps in El Salvador, which closed shop because its staff was being targeted. Hikers and climbers in national parks can meet armed robbers by paying a high price. Muggers ...
News El Salvador Tourism: Fighting MS-13 on two fronts, federal prosecutors from El Salvador and Maryland team on investigations
LANGLEY PARK, Md. - After a few minutes' walk behind Langley Park-McCormick Elementary School and not far from the rusted footbridge, the line of prosecutors in dark suits hung a left at the felled tree in the woods. Tromping through brush along a dirt path littered with beer bottles and condom wrappers, they came to a shaded clearing with two trees scarred with graffiti. "It's the same," German Garcia Arriaza said after running his hand along the trunk and inspecting the markings of MS-13. "It's the exact same." The clearing - known as "The Cemetery" - is a popular meet -up spot for MS-13 members and was the first stop on a tour Monday outside Washington for Arriaza and other prosecutors from El Salvador visiting their counterparts in the United States. The tour in Maryland's Prince George's County was part of a two-day meeting between prosecutors from the Central American country and prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Maryland as the groups combine investigative powers to fight the violent transnational gang on both fronts. Money that gang members extort from businesses in Maryland is being sent directly to El Salvador, prosecutors said. And orders to kill in Maryland often come after a communique from a gang leader in El Salvador, they said. With the operational ties between gang members in both countries so strong, it made sense to develop the same kind of relationship between prosecutors to fight back, said Robert Hur, the U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland. "We can't simply play whack-a-mole here against the gang," Hur said of prosecutions in federal court that has put gang members in jail. "We've seen that the gang will regenerate and regrow. We're attacking the gang from two sides." Prosecutors often share information on the Sailors and...
News El Salvador Tourism: El Salvador man dies in U.S. border custody
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a statement to CBS News acknowledging the man's death, saying the agency was "saddened by the unfortunate death of a 43-year-old man from El Salvador who ... ...
News El Salvador Tourism: Fighting MS-13 on two fronts, federal prosecutors from Maryland and El Salvador team up on investigations
Barr visited El Salvador in May. But those relationships are becoming more ... with markings from more than one clique was historically rare, as they often don’t travel on each other’s turf. It could ...
News El Salvador Tourism: Let Immigrant Families Pay Us—Not Cartels—to Come
Last November, Cintia paid $8,000 for herself and her daughter to travel from Honduras to the border seeking asylum. A few months before, Christopher from El Salvador paid $12,500. They aren’t alone. ...
News El Salvador Tourism: U.S. policy for Central America should look beyond a wall to addressing nations’ problems
Gavin Newsom visited El Salvador on a fact-finding mission to seek a better ... on the development of environmentally friendly coastal zones that could attract more tourism and create additional jobs ...
