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Brazil’s Salvador da Bahia Offers African Cultural Immersion
Salvador’s historic center is known as the Pelourinho (Portuguese for “pillory”), in reference to a whipping post that once existed in its central plaza. From that painful past, an Afro ...
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El Salvador: Hundreds of salvadorans protest against metallic mining law promoted by Nayib Bukele
San Salvador, El Salvador - January 19, 2025 About 500 people gathered Sunday in the historic center of the capital of El Salvador to protest against the approval of a law that enables metal ...
Inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT mega-prison, which could soon house deportees from the U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...
Salvador Has 405 Buildings at Risk of Collapse, According to Civil Defense, after Church Roof Cave-in
A 2023 report by the agency analyzed 2,700 buildings in the city, many in a state of abandonment; 117 are in more critical condition ...