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Saturday 19th May, 2012

    • Guatemala volcano belches ash, lava

    The Daily Telegraph

    THE Fuego volcano in Guatemala has begun shooting lava and columns of ash into the air, and authorities have raised the alert level in the ...

    • Cargo plane landing at Guatemala capital’s airport skids dow

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    ’s civil aviation office says the capital’s international airport has been closed temporarily because an older-model cargo plane had problems with The Washington Post", ...

    • Honduras - Kidnapped radio journalist Alfredo Villatoro found shot dead

    Reporters without Borders

    Villatoro, programme co-ordinator and presenter at the radio station HRN, was shot twice in the head and his body had been dressed in the uniform of an officer of the police, which is widely ...

  • El Salvador recognizes Palestinian state

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    El Salvador recognizes Palestinian state Palestine-El Salvador, Politics, 8/26/2011 El Salvador Thursday recognized Palestine as an independent and sovereign state, according to Palestinian ...

  • Native People of El Salvador Finally Gain Recognition

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    SAN SALVADOR, May 14, 2012 (IPS) - After decades of struggle, indigenous people in El Salvador will finally be recognised in the ...

  • Mexico, Guatemala collaborate to strengthen border security

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    Mexican President Felipe Calderon (L) and his Guatemalan counterpart Alvaro Colom arrive at a joint press conference at the official residence Los Pinos, in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on July ...

  • Graduates urged to be metaphorical midwives

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    Sister Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, founder of the Art Center for Peace in Suchitoto, El Salvador, urged Canisius College's 832 graduates Saturday to be "mystics and ...

  • Guatemala volcano spits lava and ash

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    GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's Fuego volcano belched burning lava and black ash into the sky early Saturday, leading the government to issue an airplane advisory and close sections of ...

  • From a Honduras Hospital, Conflicting Tales of a Riverside Shootout

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    News of the firefight, along with the allegations of the four deaths, led local residents to torch several government offices and demand that U.S. drug enforcement agents leave the area, according ...

  • From Honduras, Conflicting Tales of a Shootout

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    AHUAS, Honduras - Lying in a sagging hospital bed with a gunshot wound in each leg, Hilda Lezama tearfully described what she considered the worst night of her life on the river she has known since ...

  • Honduras prisoners surrender after violent clashes

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    . At least one person was killed and 10 injured when prisoners opened fire on each other on Wednesday. The prison governor said guards had surrounded the jail but BBC News", ...

  • Honduras drug raid: The State Department has some explaining to do

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    week's DEA-supported predawn raid on the banks of a remote Honduran river began when U.S. drug agents and Honduran national police tracked an airplane loaded Jakarta Post", ...

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El Salvadorian village getting outside help with water needs


El Salvadorian village getting outside help with water needs

A non-profit organization, the Minnesota State Mankato chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) has set their sights on El Salvador and will be travelling to a small village in Piedras Azules to help the local community with their water access needs.

The problem is that in the village in Piedras Azules there is just one water source with unreliable water access as the water table changes depending on the time of year and the weather. This leads to long queues at the well, with some residents sometimes waking up at midnight to beat the water rush.

It’s an int ... more


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