El Salvador

Dear Prime Minister Haughey,I know that you have followed our successful efforts to develop a bipartisan consensus behind US policy toward Central Ame(...)

The charismatic Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev stopped over at Shannon on April 2nd, 1989, on his way to Cuba, for a meeting with then taoiseach Char(...)

When the Farc guerrilla movement’s chief peace negotiator said this week that Colombia’s half-century civil war was drawing to a close, it was just th(...)

Ambivalent gave Newmarket trainer Roger Varian his first Group One success in Ireland with a gritty performance in the Oxigen Environment Pretty Polly(...)

Having endured the agony of three runner-up finishes in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, victory for the champion jumps trainer Willie Mullins with Simenon in(...)

A pregnant woman at the centre of an abortion controversy in El Salvador had her malformed foetus delivered yesterday by Caesarean section to save her(...)

El Salvador’s supreme court has denied a sick woman an immediate abortion, despite warnings from doctors that her life is at risk and the foetus is(...)

It’s been a long time coming – three decades – but the conviction and sentencing on Friday of 86-year-old former dictator Efrain Rios Montt for(...)

has approved the beatification process of the late archbishop of El Salvador Oscar Romero. Gunned down in a small hospital chapel in Sa(...)

Deep divisions between the conservative Argentine province of the Jesuits, for long headed by Fr Jorge Mario (...)