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A total of 1,263 members of the Salvadoran Army have undertaken a wide-ranging operation to distribute food and supplies to those affected by the rain that left 157 dead, while the Ministry of Public Works is clearing dozens of blocked roads.
The international response to provide humanitarian assistance to El Salvador continues since torrential rains unleashed a wave of landslides and floods that swept through the country on Sunday, killing at least 130 and leaving hundreds homeless.
Joint Task Force-Bravo personnel deployed at approximately noon today to El Salvador in response to recent torrential rains that have caused flooding and landslides there.
Honduras' de facto leader Roberto Micheletti and ousted President Manuel Zelaya have reached a deal aimed at ending the political crisis that has paralysed the country for four months.
Due to fear of a “dictatorship,” the majority of Nicaraguans rejects President Daniel Ortega’s plans to run for re-election on the basis of a controversial judicial ruling, with the intention of governing until 2017, an opinion poll revealed.
A United Nations report recommends applying “smart authority” to curb insecurity in the region, where the levels of routine violence are the highest in the world.
Guatemalan and US anti-drug agents have captured a semi-submersible vessel loaded with 10 tonnes of cocaine off the country's Pacific coast, Guatemala's anti-drug prosecutor said.
Guatemala City, 23 September (EFE).- Law-enforcement authorities today incinerated 1.69 tons of cocaine coming from Honduras, seized on Monday in an operation near the Guatemalan capital.
Guatemala City, 24 September (EFE).- The U.S. government donated another ten million dollars to fight drug trafficking in Guatemala, a country considered to be a natural stop along the way for the shipment of cocaine from South America to the United States, official sources announced today.
The president of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, considered insecurity to be the “greatest threat” affecting his country and the rest of Central America.
More than 4,500 personnel from 20 countries began a 12-day exercise here Friday to train in a joint, multinational effort to ensure the security of the Panama Canal.
Guatemala called on the international community to stump up 110 million dollars to help battle a famine and drought that has struck the Central American nation.
