Central America's gang woes
Sep 17, 2004
The deadly riot was Central America's fourth major prison uprising in 20 months. ... But gangs are now showing up in the most remote corners of Central America.

Troop Recall Urged In El Salvador
Sep 16, 2004
El Salvador has committed two groups of more than 360 soldiers each since the war began in March 2003. The second contingent arrived to Iraq in February.

Local girl uses summer to help in Honduras
Sep 16, 2004
In places like Honduras, however, houses of worship are not so easy to build. ... She found the trip to be spiritually uplifting and wants to return to Honduras.

El Salvador - Photography
Sep 15, 2004
His mother sent Edgardo Bolaños back from Los Angeles to El Salvador when his elder brothers joined a LA gang. Back home, he too

Nicaraguan envoy pushing U.N. bid
Sep 15, 2004
He pointed out that because Taiwan has been shut out of the UN, the world body does not truly represent all people, adding that Nicaragua and Taiwan's many

Twenty countries represented in Thursday parade
Sep 15, 2004
horizontal stripe lies in between two blue horizontal stripes that represent the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean on either side of Honduras, a Central

Man gets 4 to 12 years for assault in cemetery
Sep 14, 2004
Angel Vargas, a 28-year-old Honduras native, will serve up to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in a Bethlehem cemetery, a judge

Tisch alum’s photo essay documents massacre in El Salvador
Sep 13, 2004
a grant to work with the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team and various other human rights organizations in El Salvador to document the

Compiled from news dispatches
Sep 12, 2004
Hundreds of angry farmers seized Guatemala's largest hydroelectric dam Tuesday, threatening to shut off power to large parts of the country unless the

Escaping the daily grind
Sep 12, 2004
Jeff Sanders, 46, was a Type-A Washington policy wonk, feverishly working for the Office of Management and Budget and later the Senate