D.C. Area A Stop in Salvadoran Campaign
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It seems the United States isn't the only nation where the campaign season starts early. Fifteen months in advance of El Salvador's March 2009 presidential election, opposition party candidate Mauricio Funes has flown to Washington to woo the region's sizable Salvadoran community.
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Negotiations to build a soccer stadium for D.C. United in Southeast Washington have collapsed, leading District officials to pursue other options for the site and team officials to threaten to move the franchise out of the city, government sources said yesterday.
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Iraq can learn from the recent history of El Salvador, a country wrecked by civil war that has developed into stable democracy and close U.S. ally, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday.
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With the unmistakable scent of nearby farms saturating the air, D.C. United suffers an inexplicable 1-0 loss to the Harrisburg City Islanders in a U.S. Open Cup match.
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By Gina Smith, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb.
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President Bush could face a hostile reception in the streets of Latin America as he begins a tour aimed at winning back friends in a region where his administration is deeply unpopular.
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SANTA CRUZ BALANYA, Guatemala  - President George W. Bush visited Guatemalan hill towns on Monday to promote U.S. efforts to fight poverty in Latin America, where Washington's power is increasingly being questioned by leftist leaders.
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JUTIAPA, Guatemala  - In towns along Guatemala's drug corridor between El Salvador and Mexico, drug traffickers flush with money see this year's elections as a new way to extend their power.
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TEGUCIGALPA -- Honduras tightened security at foreign embassies and declared a national terror alert after receiving information that Al Qaeda was trying to recruit Hondurans to attack embassies of the United States, Britain, Spain, and El Salvador, a government official said yesterday. The heightened security was instituted Thursday, after Honduras's intelligence services received reports of a plan allegedly targeting those ...
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With the president of El Salvador as a witness, leaders of the Salvadoran immigrant business community last week took a key step forward by establishing the first formal commercial ties with each other and with their home country.
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They partied in the streets yesterday in the Dominican Republic, where the president declared a national holiday after Anaheim&#39;s Vladimir Guerrero won the American
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In the Gold Cup tournament which has already seen some interesting upsets, the United States will have to do more to sustain an effective attack against El Salvador.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Oct. 6, 2004 - UN peacekeepers and Haitian police in armored personnel carriers moved in on a downtown slum blocked by loyalists of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, taking action Wednesday to halt a new urban offensive.
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MaracanÃ£ stadium, the shrine of Brazilian soccer in Rio de Janeiro, is closed. The national sport is on hold, awaiting the start of the Pan American Games on Friday and the promise of future glory that a successful sports showcase could bring.
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Central American nations are putting aside border bickering to allow the relatively free movement of people and goods between nations &#151; a goal that has U.S. officials worried about a jump in smuggling of drugs and people in a region already plagued by crime and on the lookout for terrorists.
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Supporters of the anti-illegal immigration measure adopted in Prince William County last week have argued that its most important purpose is to send a powerful signal to the county's mostly Latino illegal immigrants that they are no longer welcome.
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Gaza is a small place, and news spread quickly Wednesday that the border fence was knocked down before dawn. Pretty soon, I was caught up in a traffic jam as people raced to Rafah in buses, cars, motorcycles. Some even rode bicycles and donkey carts.