Four high-ranking Salvadoran army officers are among people being investigated as suspected members of a kidnaping ring that abducted members of El Salvador's wealthy families for ransoms totaling several million dollars, sources close to the case said Sunday.
Canada has decided to restore its aid program to El Salvador because of improvements in the Central
About 20,000 peasants and workers marched through San Salvador on Saturday to demand land reform.
Leftist guerrillas attacked El Salvador's largest prison Friday with mortar and rifle fire, and 104 prisoners escaped in the confusion, the prison warden said.
One of the three suspects being held in a cafe massacre in which four U.S.
Coming quietly at night, the guerrillas knocked on the wooden door of Mayor Francisco Chavez's adobe house.
A moderately strong earthquake and two aftershocks hit El Salvador late Thursday and early today
Two former corporals in the Salvadoran National Guard were found guilty of murder late Thursday in the 1981 shooting deaths of two American land reform experts and a Salvadoran.
An American man who had lived in El Salvador for five years was shot dead Saturday, and a U.S.
In the San Mateo district of San Salvador, where most of the houses have two-car garages, nearly 50
An El Salvador assemblyman who was a close friend of President Jose Napoleon Duarte was shot to
In the first major move to prosecute one of its present or former commissioned officers accused of criminal activities, the Salvadoran military establishment has detained a one-time lieutenant suspected of taking part in a lucrative kidnap-for-ransom ring, it was announced Friday.
Anti-government forces Thursday offered to free a kidnaped army colonel in exchange for the release of jailed union activists and human rights workers "to create a favorable environment" for proposed peace talks between the rebels and President Jose Napoleon Duarte's government.
Salvadoran business groups reported more than 80% compliance with a one-day general strike against President Jose Napoleon Duarte's economic policies.
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The Reagan Administration continues to claim that there has been steady progress in El Salvador
A Salvadoran military helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff at Ilopango air base outside the capital, and 10 people were killed, the head of the air force said.
President Jose Napoleon Duarte has announced sweeping austerity measures to revitalize El Salvador's war-ravaged economy.
For three weeks, the peasants had been living in dark caves, hiding from what they called "the invasion" of army troops and air force bombers trying to retake the mammoth Guazapa volcano from armed guerrillas.
A woman from El Salvador pleaded guilty to her role in the shooting death and dismemberment of a