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Rural Towns in El Salvador Join “War Tourism” Trend

By Edgardo Ayala
The memory of a priest killed shortly before civil war broke out in El Salvador is so alive in this small town that it is now the main attraction in a community tourist initiative aimed at providing employment and injecting money into the local economy.

Electioneering Undermines Fight Against Crime in El Salvador

By Edgardo Ayala
The upcoming municipal and legislative elections in March and the hiring of former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani as a kind of anti-crime tzar are not the best equation for bringing down El Salvador’s high murder rate, analysts say.

Battle Stations: Civil Society Fights Radio and TV Spectrum Auctions

By Edgardo Ayala
Pressure from social organisations has temporarily halted concessions of television broadcasting frequencies in El Salvador, a country where the struggle for spectrum ownership has political and ideological overtones, as well as economic ones.


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