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El Salvador is a country in Central America with a population of around 6.9 million people. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the north and east by Honduras, and to the south by the Pacific Ocean. It is the most densely populated nation on the American mainland (especially in its capital, San Salvador), and also the most industrialized country in Central America. Its official name is Republic of El Salvador (Spanish: República de El Salvador, IPA: [re'puβlika ðe el salβa'ðor]). The country was named after the Spanish word for "The Saviour", in honor of Jesus Christ, and its territory was known prehispanically as Cuscatlán.
La Prensa Grafica or just called La Prensa is a daily newspaper published in El Salvador by David Escobar Galindo. It is owned by Grupo Dutriz. Is one of the largest metropolitan newspaper in El Salvador
In May 10, 1915 the first copy was published with the name La Prensa and the only editors where Drutiz Hermanos (Dutriz Brothers) this copy had four standard size pages. Which talked about "Una de las manifestaciones más espléndidas del progreso cultural de los pueblos la constituye el grado de perfección, llamado con justicia el cuarto poder del Estado, o sea la prensa, que encarna el alma compleja y batalladora de las colectividades civilizadas y conscientes" (One of the greatest manifestions of the cultural progress of the towns...) This copy also says that they will work daily to try to have peace and bring info to every salvadoran.
The first director of La Prensa was Jose Dutriz who directed from 1915 to 1934 because he give his role to his sons Jose y Roberto Dutriz
Then on August 10, 1939 La Prensa merged with other Newspaper that few months ago was created name El Grafico and became known as La Prensa Grafica, La Prensa Grafica became one of the first newspaper to have color in the newspaper in Central America.
La Prensa Gafica its price is USD$0.50 and is one of the two biggest newspapers in El Salvador the other one is El Diario De Hoy. The Newspaper is using the Goodnews system of publishing.
A landslide caused by one of the 2001 El Salvador earthquakes.
Schafik Jorge Handal (October 14, 1930 – January 24, 2006) was a freedom fighter Salvadoran that later became a politician. Born in Usulutan, he was the son of Palestinian immigrants.[1]
Between 1973 and 1994, he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of El Salvador. As GS of the PCS, Handal embraced elections and rejected armed struggle to conquer political power in El Salvador. Later on, after two allegedly fraudulent elections in 1972 and in 1977, and despite the intervention of the Communist Party of Cuba (History of the FMLN, newspaper "Frente"), Handal became convinced that the defeat of the military dictatorship would not be possible through elections. As a guerrilla leader in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was a member of the group that brought five opposition forces together to found the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
Following the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords in 1992, the FMLN converted itself from a guerrilla army into a political party, and Handal served as its general coordinator. In 1997, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly, serving as the leader of the FMLN's party bloc in the legislature.
He was the FMLN's candidate in El Salvador's 2004 presidential election, held on March 21, running on a leftist platform that called for a friendly relationship with the United States (according to his own pamphlet for the campaign), renegotiation of free trade treaties and a closer relationship with socialist-oriented countries in Latin America, including Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil. Opponents accused Handal of exploiting anti-American sentiment while FMLN supporters accused the United States of corrupting the electoral process, because several high ranking U.S. officials stated that American relations with El Salvador would be seriously threatened if Handal won the elections. This opinion was strengthened by the fact that the opposing ARENA stated that the United States might deport Salvadorans who live in the US after a leftist election victory. Handal was defeated by the candidate of the ruling conservative ARENA party, Antonio Saca, who was also of Palestinian descent, by a margin of 58% to 36%. The election saw a turnout of 90% at the polls.
Handal died less than two years after his failed presidential bid, on January 24, 2006, of a heart attack. He fainted at Comalapa Airport upon his return from Bolivia where he had attended the inauguration ceremony of President Evo Morales; he was flown by helicopter to a San Salvador hospital but doctors were unable to revive him.
- ...that El Salvador is one of the most densely populated countries in Latin America, and also one of the most industrialized?
- ...that El Salvador uses the U.S. Dollar as its currency?
- ...that the department of Sonsonate is known for its coconuts?
- ...that Alex kassiciehone of El Salvador's most beloved writers, was imprisoned and persecuted by the Salvadorean Government?
- ...that El Salvador and Honduras fought a war in 1969?
- May 6, 2007:
-Metapan stands number two in the national football (soccer) club rankings.Number one in May 18th is Firpo Club.
"May this Body immolated and this Blood sacrificed for Mankind nourish us also, that we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People."-Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero
"Yesterday, today and for all times, Domingo is a patriot."-Rev. Manuel Vega on Lt. Colonel Domingo Monterrosa Barrios, one of the heads of the Atlacatl Battalion responsible for El Mozote.
"May we keep hauling up the morning."-Roque Dalton
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