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• What happened in Colombia didn't stay in Colombia

  to set up security for Obama 's visit.The agency says it is also looking into whether agents hired prostitutes and strippers in El Salvador in advance of the president's trip last year. More reports are emerging of allegedly ribald conduct, off duty on official   Read more »

• US transfers 2 Guantanamo prisoners to El Salvador

  them as Abdul Razakah and Hammad Memet, both of whom were captured in Pakistan and held at Guantanamo for nearly 10 years.El Salvador's foreign affairs office said in a statement that the men were brought into the country on Wednesday on humanitarian grounds   Read more »

• Christians find comfort in Easter message

  the United States in March and was apprehensive about spending her first Easter away from her mother and two brothers in her El Salvador homeland.She worried she would feel lonely in a place she feared might be cold both physically and spiritually.But Aguilar   Read more »

• U.S. devastated after 3-3 tie with El Salvador

  had a hat trick in the United States' 6-0 win over Cuba on Thursday, scored in the 68th minute to give the U.S. a 3-2 lead.El Salvador joined Canada as Group A semifinal participants. Canada tied Cuba, 1-1, in the first game of the doubleheader as second-half   Read more »

• U.S. says it isn't worried about Olympic qualifying

  of it, says U.S. Under-23 team captain Freddy Adu ."I'm not even thinking about that right now," Adu said before the U.S. met El Salvador in a must-win game at the CONCACAF men's qualifying tournament Monday night's. "I believe that we're going to be there."Nothing   Read more »

Around the web

• El Salvador: Women of the War Dedicated to Finding Peace and Justice

  y salvadoreñas con trabajo binacional y bilingüe. Through a long-form documentary, photo exhibits in the US and El Salvador and a book, we want to tell the inspiring stories of these women, to share their dedication and hope with the world. Women, specially 5/30/12 from Global Voices Online Read more »

• Los Angeles Gang Workers Praise El Salvador Truce

  who work with gang members in the United States support the fragile agreement and hope to reduce the lure of gangs in both countries. El Salvador and neighboring Honduras, which are plagued with gangs, have homicide rates 10 times the global average. 5/30/12 from Humanitarian News Read more »

• Salvadoran court releases 2 in Mexico massacre case

  court in El Salvador released two suspected people traffickers who abandoned 14 Salvadorans in Mexico who were among the 72 migrants massacred at a ranch in Tamaulipas state in 2010, judicial officials said. Carlos Ernesto Teos Parada and Erick Francis Escobar 5/30/12 from Fox News Latino Read more »

• Travel Guide: El Salvador

  the Tom Thumb of the Americas. http://www.WatchMojo.com continues our travel series with a look at El Salvador. “Travel Guide: El Salvador” is categorized as “life and leisure”. This video was licensed from Grab Networks. For additional video content, click 5/30/12 from American Banking and Market News Read more »

• Tom Hayden: Support Mounts for Salvadoran Gang Truce

  himself in numerous court appearances. On this Memorial Day, he called out the names of Homies Unidos members killed in El Salvador -- Hector, Ringo, Bullet, and Smoky, among others -- saying, "this is a baton thrown out to us, and it is our duty to pick it 5/30/12 from The Huffington Post Read more »