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President Mauricio Funes said Saturday he is gratified that Barack Obama is including his small country in a tour of Latin America, saying the visit dispels fears relations would suffer under El Salvador's first leftist government.
El Salvador's U.S.-friendly president is under threat from his own party of former leftist rebels, who are secretly organizing anti-government protests and may be tapping his phone lines, say newly leaked U.S. diplomatic messages.
Several banana workers denied Friday they were part of a conspiracy to defraud Dole Foods Co. by falsely claiming in a damage lawsuit to have worked on a banana plantation and been made sterile by pesticides.
El Salvador's first leftist president publicly apologized on behalf of the state Wednesday for the assassination of a Roman Catholic archbishop 30 years ago at the outset of the country's civil war.
Six Jesuit priests killed by the army during El Salvador's civil war two decades ago were decorated with the country's highest honor Monday.
A journalist from a party of former Marxist guerrillas became El Salvador's first leftist president Monday, immediately restoring ties with Cuba while promising to remain friendly with the United States.
Mauricio Funes made a name for himself by reporting on El Salvador's 1980-1992 war between U.S.-backed governments and leftist guerrillas and as a television show host who was unafraid to tackle the Central American nation's most sensitive issues.
El Salvador's former leftist rebels won more seats than any other party in legislative elections but fell short of a majority, final results showed Saturday.
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