IN El Salvador, a single phone call can get you locked up and packed in an iron-barred cell with murderous gangsters. The country has historically been torn apart by armed violence and over the last two years embarked on aggressive policies to lock up any suspected gang members for life. 10 Gang members are brought … Read more
MEJICANOS, El Salvador — From the window of her tin-sided shop outside El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, Esmeralda Quintanilla watches artists get to work in her neighborhood on walls still pockmarked by bullet holes from the country’s civil war and gang conflict. Armed with brushes, paint and spray cans, muralists and graffiti artists have already … Read more
By Astrid Suarez and Manuel Rueda | Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Migrants bound for the U.S. are once again crossing the Darien Gap in large numbers, officials in Colombia said on Monday, after being stranded for much of last week in a small town along the country’s Caribbean coast due to a work stoppage … Read more
In a tiny village along the Peruvian Amazon, women line up on a warm, rainy August morning to protect themselves against cervical cancer, a disease that claims the lives of six women in Peru every day. News had spread throughout nearby villages of a pilot screening project for human papillomavirus (HPV), a common virus responsible … Read more
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele. (Photo Credit: Twitter handle) The price of Bitcoin currently stands at $60,300, which is about 73 per cent lower as compared with $60,300 a year ago El Salvador Buying Bitcoin Daily: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Thursday said his country will start buying one bitcoin a day from tomorrow … Read more
Aerial view of Barcelona downtown with a view of the Salesforce Tower’s twin: Torre Glòries. Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images Bay Area residents will get a new option for nonstop flights to one of Europe’s most popular tourist destinations next year when United Airlines introduces service between San Francisco International and Barcelona, Spain. The airline … Read more
