The Canadian gold-mining company Pacific Rim sent out a press release this week stating that the lawsuit it has brought against El Salvador is moving forward now that three arbitrators have been selected.: An arbitration case brought by Pacific Rim...

An additional 2500 troops are out on the streets in high crime areas of El Salvador. But will they reduce violent crime? IPS looks at the issue: So far this year, there have been 3,673 murders in this country of 5.8 million people - 494 more than in...

Today is the 5th anniversary of the start of Tim's El Salvador Blog. I'm in El Salvador as I write this post, having just participated in the commemorations of the murder of the Jesuits and the subversive cross. I'm also here to understand more of...

ONE CROSS, TWO STORIES This is a story about two crosses in San Salvador. One is a cross made from houses destroyed in the earthquake, el terremoto. The other is the cross that hangs by the musicians in the Lutheran Church of the...

On November 16, 1989, that same fateful day in El Salvador when the Jesuits were murdered, Lutheran Bishop Medardo Gomez was also targeted by the military. For Bishop Gomez and his Lutheran church were also voices who denounced the injustice they saw...