A collection of stories tagged 'el salvador' from NPR. http://www.reverbiage.com/ Copyright 2006 Reverbiage.com. Reverbiage is not affiliated with NPR nor its member stations. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:21:49 EST Youth Radio's Evelyn Martinez is living in an area of East Los Angeles that's been home to a lot of gang activity recently. Evelyn's mother fled El Salvador during that country's civil war, only to discover that she's living in another war zone. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/47886 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89760907&ft=1&f=1021 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:09:00 EDT This week, NPR's Jennifer Ludden looked at what happens when a country -- in particular, El Salvador -- has to take back a large number of its own nationals deported by the United States. What are the effects of their migration and their return? http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/47347 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89490007&ft=1&f=1001 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:33:00 EDT Omar Giron lived in the United States for so long that when he returned to El Salvador -- the country he left 20 years ago -- it was anything but a homecoming. And perhaps nothing marks him more as an outsider than his daily battle against dust. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/47311 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89431942&ft=1&f=1012 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:05:00 EDT Relations between blacks and Latinos have sometimes been strained, but there have been efforts to bring the groups together. A family connection led NPR's Enrique Rivera, whose family comes from El Salvador, to look into how Martin Luther King Jr. affected the Latino community. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/44285 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18272160&ft=1&f=1012 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:26:00 EST The small Central American nation of El Salvador has one of the highest rates of migration to the U.S. in the region, creating a labor shortage at home. But El Salvador's competitive wages attract workers from its less well-off neighbors Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/40542 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15218365&ft=1&f=1001 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:00:00 EDT Concerns about gang culture prompt Antonio Villaraigosa to visit San Salvador. Both cities must deal with gangs that have strong ties in both nations. In San Salvador, felons deported from the U.S. have taken L.A.'s gang culture back to the homeland. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/34042 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9972586 Thu, 03 May 2007 06:00:00 EDT The Vatican has censured the writings of Father Jon Sabrino, a Roman Catholic priest in El Salvador known for his previous advocacy of liberation theology. The Vatican now finds fault with writings that could be seen as questioning the divinity of Christ. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/32282 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8976805 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:07:00 EDT Late last month three Salvadoran legislators were killed while on official business in Guatemala. The four Guatemalan men who were arrested and charged with the murders were killed while in custody. It turned out that the men killed in jail were Guatemalan police. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/31710 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7700567 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:09:00 EST Hispanic cooks can be found in many of America's restaurants. But it still surprises Washington, D.C., diners that the city's best chef for Iranian food is a Salvadoran. Juan, who goes by Johnny, says he worked his way up in the industry, learned a foreign cuisine and made it his own. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/30992 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7388748 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:14:00 EST DNA collected in El Salvador is being analyzed in California to help Salvadoran parents identify children who went missing during that country's civil war. Thousands of Salvadoran children were separated from their families in the 1980s. A human rights group hopes to match up adopted children with their birth parents. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/21088 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5534282 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:00:00 EDT The mission of improving health around the world largely rests with "boots on the ground" -- the trained people who deliver medical care. As part of NPR's series of reports on global health, Day to Day presents audio vignettes on the challenges facing health care workers in Indonesia, Brazil, El Salvador and Ghana. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/3700 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4986409 Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST El Salvador gets nearly six feet of rainfall each year, but clean water is in short supply. Contaminated water kills thousands there every year. But simple projects that build deep wells are beginning to succeed where expensive, modern water systems have failed. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/3706 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4983325 Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST The film Innocent Voices tells the story of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. Co-writer Oscar Torres escaped to the United States from his native land and lived through the events dramatized onscreen. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/3647 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4964460 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EDT