El Salvador

The United States is removing all Peace Corps volunteers from Honduras, and scaling back in Guatemala and El Salvador, reports The Tico Times (Dec. 23, 2011). The Peace Corps, the government-run volunteer body,...

Cable & Wireless Panama, which won the contract to upgrade the 911 service in El Salvador, is starting operations in El Salvador, reports Elmundo.com.sv (Dec. 15, 2011). the country. With an investment of...

Several years after requesting permits, the multinational Walmart has received permission to build a new supermarket in Mijicanos, with an investment of $15 million, reports Elsalvador.com (Dec. 19,2011). In May 2011, Claudia Ibanez,...

Due to a rise in production Honduran onion producers will begin exporting to Nicaragua, El Salvador and Costa Rica, reports Elnuevodiario.com.ni (Jan. 5, 2012). In 2011 some of the production had to be...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of El Salvador on Jan. 6 said it will plant 1.4 million tilapia fingerlings in lakes, ponds, reservoirs and family ponds. With the planned afforestation of fish...

Mari Carmen Aponte will no longer be the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, reports Reuters (Dec. 13, 2011). Her nomination was blocked by the U.S. Senate--11 votes short of the 60 she needed....

The first two months of the year could see the beginning of construction work on a pork processing plant, reports Elsalvador.com (Dec. 21, 2011). The plant, which already has several environmental permits, will...

Puma Energy said it plans to open 80 new service stations in an attempt to consolidate themselves as the second largest in the Guatemalan market, reports Sigloxxi.com (Jan. 4, 2012). During the course...

(millions of US$) U.S. export U.S. imports (F.A.S.) (c.i.f.) 2010 2011 2010 2011 Anguilla 29.0 24.7 1.9 4.4 Antigua & Barbuda 120.9 144.2 4.8 4.8 Aruba 413.8 594.1 16.7 2909.0 Bahamas 2666.0 2807.2...

The northwestern Nicaraguan town of La Isla has lost so many of its residents in recent years that locals have unofficially renamed it "La Isla de las viudas" (island of widows). The victims,...

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The start of 2012 finds Costa Rica struggling against the growing threats to its diminishing security, menaces posed by organized crime, particularly drug trafficking. This Central American nation is not alone--and, comparatively, is...

MIAMI -- NGC[R] today announced that Bernard Cap, the largest supplier of dress uniform headwear to the U.S. Government and its agencies, is live on NGC's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Miami-based Bernard...

Company Will Take a One-Time Earnings Adjustment in Second Quarter GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Delta Apparel, Inc. (NYSE Amex: DLA) announced today that, due to record high cotton prices combined with selling price discounts,...

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Delta Apparel, Inc. (NYSE Amex: DLA) today announced the election of Suzanne B. Rudy as a Director by unanimous approval of the Company's Board. Ms. Rudy brings more than 20...

Even though President Mauricio Funes continues to enjoy strong popular support, the party that catapulted him to power three years ago, the leftist Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN), may soon...

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Delta Apparel, Inc. (NYSE Amex: DLA) announced today that management will deliver a presentation on behalf of the Company to investors at the 14th Annual ICR XChange Conference in Miami,...

The drug violence in Mexico no longer is a concern just to that country. More than forty-three thousand people have died in the fighting there since President Felipe Calderón initiated his military offensive...