http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/elsalvador/ en-us Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:13:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414950/posts President Barack Obama has nominated Mari Carmen Aponte to become the next ambassador of El Salvador, a decade after she was forced to withdrawal her name from consideration for a similar post following concerns about alleged ties to Cuba, Newsmax.com reports. A former FBI official told Fox News that Aponte’s 1998 nomination by president Clinton began receiving attention after the foreign relations panel questioned her about a past relationship with Roberto Tamayo, who was alleged to have "possible ties to the Cuban government" and made "repeated trips there." Current White House spokesman Tommy Vietor responded, "as has been previously reported,... Personal Liberty Digest http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414950/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:13:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411427/posts Note: The following text is a quote: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, December 17, 2009 Guyanese National Charged with Smuggling Indian Nationals to the United States A Guyanese national has been indicted on charges of conspiracy and alien smuggling in connection with her role in the smuggling or attempted smuggling of four Indian nationals to the United States. Annita Devi Gerald, aka Annita Rampersad, 52, was charged in a nine-count indictment returned yesterday by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Texas. Gerald was arrested by ICE special agents in Houston on Nov. 17, 2009, and has been held without... US DOJ.gov - Justice.gov - Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411427/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:11:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410074/posts A leftist La Raza activist previously forced out of a U.S. ambassadorship for her close ties to a terrorist-sponsoring foreign government has been nominated by President Obama to a key administration post. Mari Del Carmen Aponte, a former director at the extremist Mexican group National Council of La Raza (see the press release applauding her nomination) and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, has been handpicked by Obama to be the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. That means Aponte, an attorney and independent consultant, will represent the State Department in the civil war-ravaged Central American country. In 1998... Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410074/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:59:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409895/posts President Obama's recent nominee for ambassador to El Salvador was forced to withdraw her nomination to another diplomatic post a decade ago following concerns about ties to Cuba, raising red flags as her name heads to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee once again for approval. President Obama's recent nominee for ambassador to El Salvador was forced to withdraw her nomination to another diplomatic post a decade ago following concerns about ties to Cuba, raising red flags as her name heads to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee once again for approval. The White House announced the nomination of Mari Del Carmen... FOXNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409895/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:02:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400613/posts STERLING, Va. - A close inspection by Customs and Border Protection officers at Dulles International Airport turned up something unexpected. Inside a fully-cooked chicken they found cocaine with an estimated street value of $4,300. The 60.4 grams (2.3 ounces) of coke was found inside two small, clear plastic bags inside the chicken's cavity. Officers discovered the white powdery substance during a secondary inspection after a flight from El Salvador arrived shortly after midnight Saturday. It tested positive for cocaine. "CBP officers have seen many unique narcotics concealment methods, and they all present the same challenges to discover them. Our officers'... WTOP.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400613/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 23:53:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393915/posts An illegal alien has been sentenced to life in prison for breaking into an 83-year-old woman's home, grabbing her by the throat, smashing her head into furniture, saturating her with gasoline and setting her body on fire while she was still alive – all to cover up his check fraud scam after she hired him to cut her lawn. World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393915/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:39:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379827/posts New York Daily News SNIPPET: "NEW YORK — El Salvadoran leaders of the MS-13 gang allegedly put out a contract on the federal agent responsible for a crackdown on its New York factions, the Daily News has learned. The brazen plot to assassinate the unidentified Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was revealed in an arrest warrant for reputed gang member Walter (Duke) Torres. Torres tipped authorities to the plan after he and four other MS-13 members were stopped by NYPD detectives for hassling passersby on Northern Blvd. in Queens last month." (NY DAILY NEWS, November 4, 2009) via POLICEONE.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379827/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:42:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376305/posts A new video of Jeremiah Wright has surfaced, showing Barack Obama's pastor of 20 years praising Marxism and discussing his ties to communists in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the Libyan government. Equally important, Wright is being introduced in the video by Robert W. McChesney, co-founder of Free Press, an organization which has come under scrutiny for its links to the Obama Administration and dedication to the transformation and control of the private media in the U.S. In an article in the socialist Monthly Review, "Journalism, Democracy, and Class Struggle," McChesney declared, "Our job is to make media reform part... Accuracy in Media. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376305/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 06:08:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340888/posts EL SALVADOR (Tier 2) El Salvador is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Salvadorans are trafficked to Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States. Salvadoran women and girls are also trafficked internally from rural to urban areas of the country. The majority of foreign victims trafficked to El Salvador are women and children from Nicaragua and Honduras trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation. The Government of El Salvador does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do... US State Department Report On Sex Trafficking from El Salvador http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340888/posts#comment Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:06:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339533/posts SAN FRANCISCO -- The family of a father and two sons who were slain in San Francisco last year can go to state court with a claim that the city is to blame for failing to turn their alleged killer over to immigration authorities when he was arrested earlier as a juvenile, a federal judge has ruled. City Attorney Dennis Herrera had asked U.S. District Judge Susan Illston to rule on the claim herself after dismissing the rest of the suit last month by Tony Bologna's widow and daughter. But Illston said Friday that the remainder of the family's case... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339533/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:03:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2317526/posts REYNOSA — Soldiers on Thursday freed more than 100 persons who were being held against their will by a group of alleged kidnappers, authorities said. Military personell discovered the sequestered group's location through an anonymous tip, the Mexican Defense Ministry said in a news release issued Saturday. Soldiers checked out the area at Callejón Golondrinas about 11:30 p.m. and discovered a house with about 123 persons crammed inside. Soldiers interviewed several victims who told officials they had been abducted. The people found inside the house, all Central American, were described as follows: >> 94 Honduras nationals (24 females) >> 15... The Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2317526/posts#comment Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:39:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298379/posts It's good, occasionally, to take a trip down memory lane. It helps to put things into perspective. Hugo Chavez ought never to have been elected president. By rights, he ought to be growing old in a jail cell somewhere. Well, it's been seventeen years, maybe he’d be in a half-way house by now. As an army officer in 1992, he led a military revolt against the legal, constitutional government of Venezuela, and attempted to overthrow the democratically elected president of the time, Carlos Andres Perez. He gambled that once the shooting started, the minister of defense and the rest of... Conservative Underground http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298379/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:56:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287854/posts During the 1970s and 1980s, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), then based in the United Methodist Building on Capitol Hill, vigorously lobbied for Nicaragua's Sandinista regime, the Cuban-style Marxist regime that shot its way to power in 1979. Today, WOLA pretends it is concerned about the rule of law in Honduras after the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court supported removing the leftist president for defying its constitution. WOLA and Jim Wallis' publication Sojourners have teamed up to spin Honduras' defense of its democracy as another example of a U.S.-supported, imperialist military coup. The constitutional coup in Honduras was... Front Page http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287854/posts#comment Wed, 8 Jul 2009 06:49:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286168/posts Ousted Zelaya fails to land in Honduras 05 Jul 2009 23:42:51 GMT Source: Reuters CARACAS, July 5 (Reuters) - The Honduran army thwarted an attempt by ousted President Manuel Zelaya to land at Tegucigalpa airport on Sunday by blocking the runway with military vehicles. AlertNet.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286168/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:57:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286118/posts In a high-stakes move to reclaim his post, ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya tried to fly to this Central American nation on Sunday. The provisional government said it would turn the aircraft away, even as it signaled a new willingness to negotiate a solution to the region's biggest political crisis in years. Honduras' civil aviation director said Mr. Zelaya's plane was being redirected to El Salvador. Mr. Zelaya, a leftist kicked out by Honduras' army last week in his nightshirt, departed from Washington to Tegucigalpa on an aircraft believed to belong to Venezuela's government. He was accompanies by the U.N.... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286118/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:46:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278842/posts Note: The following text is a quote: June 24, 2009 46 street gang members and associates arrested in New Jersey-wide operation ICE works with local law enforcement agencies to make arrests NEWARK, N.J. - Forty-six gang members and associates were arrested as a result of a statewide public safety initiative in New Jersey led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of Investigation in Newark. The operation ended June 20. Each of those arrested were targeted for their membership, participation or association with violent street gangs. The success of the operation dubbed "Community Shield" was the result of an... ICE.gov - News Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278842/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:31:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2278860/posts I'll be on hiatus into July after this. So I looked for some waterfall pictures as a send-off. Waterfall in the Caucasus Mountains (Chegem Gorge). Click for full-size. Katibawasan Falls, Phillipines (click for full size) El Chorro waterfalls, El Salvador Various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2278860/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:57:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278634/posts Three Mexican men accused of holding 12 undocumented immigrants against their will have been charged with alien smuggling and conspiracy to smuggle aliens into the U.S., according to court documents. U.S. Magistrate Felix Recio on Tuesday ordered that Leonardo Juarez Torres, Abel Martinez-Rendon and Santiago Cisneros Diaz, all Mexican nationals, be held without bond until a detention hearing Friday morning. The immigrants, 10 Mexican men and two Salvadoran women, were being held in a house at 1936 Woodway Drive, said Brownsville police spokesman Sgt. Jimmy Manrrique. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is investigating several leads to identify other individuals possibly... The Brownsville Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278634/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:43:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276168/posts SNIPPET: "Police were nearby and took one suspect into custody while another was arrested after a getaway car was followed to a nearby trailer park." (AP) via WTVM.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276168/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:06:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2263308/posts Caption Hillary with the First Lady of El Salvador! RS4E http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2263308/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:06:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2254462/posts http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1242212406822&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2254462/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 04:12:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2244352/posts Note: Photos included. # Taking a Stand Against MS-13 05/01/09 Our MS-13 Task Force was able to resolve the case quickly because the victim came forward with security surveillance tapes of the robbery. After MS-13 gang members robbed a Houston beauty salon at gunpoint last January and sexually assaulted a salon employee, one of the gang members went a step further: he took the owner’s picture so he knew exactly who she was. If she thought about going to the police, he said, she would be sorry. The owner was also told that from now on, she would be expected... FBI.GOV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2244352/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 09:43:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238099/posts LIMA -- Public health authorities of South American countries took precautionary measures to fend off a possible pandemic after a deadly swine flu virus claimed dozens of lives in Mexico and infected at least 11 people in the United States. In Peru, experts with the Health Ministry said the ministry had initiated a nationwide precautionary plan to deal with potential threats, though no suspicious cases have been reported so far in the country. The Chilean Health Ministry expressed concern over the situation and drafted a contingency plan for epidemic prevention. It also ordered a public health alert that included health... China View Canada http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238099/posts#comment Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:25:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233756/posts Just two days after US President Barack Hussein Obama shared a controversial and landmark handshake with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center has released a study analyzing the flowering alliance between the increasingly anti-Western Latin America and the virulently anti-Israel Iran. The study was conducted at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), a non-governmental organization dedicated to Israeli intelligence and terrorism issues. According to the study, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is using anti-Western Hugo Chavez as a springboard into several Latin American countries, such as Bolivia, Nicaragua, and... Arutz Sheva http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233756/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:28:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230038/posts The Burnet County Sheriff’s office has arrested five people in connection to a home invasion early Tuesday morning. According to police, three Hispanic males entered a home in the Stone Mountain subdivision in southwestern Burnet County. The individuals robbed the couple at gunpoint and took cash, jewelry, and firearms. Investigators detained five individuals who were at a residence in Granite Shoals. After interviewing the men, investigators were able to obtain a search warrant for the home. They discovered items that they believed were stolen during the home invasion. Authorities arrested Gilberto Aldana, Alvaro Caceres, and Nauna Fuentes-Sanchez and charged them... FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230038/posts#comment Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:12:10 GMT