http://www.mylot.com/w/keywords/el+salvador.aspx MyLot Discussions About el salvador en-gb http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1927321.aspx Hi, today i want to discuss something that is more enlightening, if you can become an expert in a single language over all the languages in the world overnight, so you don't have to take several years of study to master that language, what will be your choice and why you choose that language? Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:53:10 GMT lampar http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1970638.aspx popusas are for el salvador like tacos are for mexico. theyre DELICIOUSSSSS!!!. my husband is from el salvador and i would really like to surprise him one day by making him his favorite, if anybody know how to make them please let me know thanks! Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:48:03 GMT txgrl21 http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1943610.aspx Most people will not care at about what happens in such a tiny place like EL Salvador, at least in distant Europe only in Spain you can find any news in the first page. Well, after 20 years of right wing governments, corruption and violence with thousands of victims behind now, after yesterday elections they are heading in the opposite direction. Let's see. Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:56:03 GMT overwings http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/834569.aspx We all know that DUI is a serious problem which takes too many lives. Most DUI deaths and serious injuries are caused by repeat offenders. Do you think this is the answer? In some South Dakota counties, people repeatedly arrested for drunken driving can continue to drive, but they must report to their local sheriff for breath testing twice a day — every morning and every night. If they don't show, they're tracked down and thrown in jail. And if they fail the test — if they have been drinking anything at all — they go to jail on the spot. South Dakota Attorney General Larry Long, who started the experiment, noted that many people arrested for DUI are alcoholics who do it again and again, even after their licenses have been taken away. So the way to attack the problem, he said, is not to prevent them from getting behind the wheel but to stop them from drinking."If they quit drinking, I don't care if they drive," he said. Lacey Graff, 24, a legal secretary in Sioux Falls, went into the program in August after being arrested a third time for drunken driving, and is serving 90 days behind bars for her last offense. While awaiting sentencing, she was tested twice a day and failed twice, spending a night behind bars each time. But she said the experience led her to check into rehab."It's a pain in the neck to have to go down there twice a day," she said. But she added: "It may have saved my life, with the path I was going. I'd been continuing on that road for almost two years, being drunk almost every day."Long tried out twice-a-day testing decades ago as a local prosecutor in a rural county and liked the results."These are people who have chronic alcoholism problems. We're keeping them sober," he said."It is effective. It does work," Leidholt said. "If they blow a hot test, they're immediately taken to jail." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070228/ap_on_re_us/testing_drunks Photo Drunk Driving Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:37:29 GMT whiteheather39 http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1803886.aspx Central america??? there's a very beautiful place.... beatifuls beach, people, lot of thinks... do you have visited??? or you have never heard about this places countries like honduras, el salvador, guatema, costa rica, nicaragua and i dont remember more .... Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:05:06 GMT theembittered http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/588781.aspx I am currently dating a beautiful girl from El Salvador. She goes on and on about how beautiful the beaches are and the natural landscape. She has my attention and I would love to go to El Salvador for our honeymoon. I am wondering if anyone has been there and if you have any suggestions as to where to go and what to see? Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:50:14 GMT william19flores75 http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1771006.aspx I've been curious to check it and there are a few. 1 orignal Saragossa in Spain 1 more in Colombia, 3 in Mexico, 1 in Guatemala, 1 in El Salvador, 1 in the Philipines, and 1 more in Ecuatorial Guinea. So 8 more apart from the original one. It was common for the founder of the new settlements in the new world to give the place the name of their home town. That's why there are so many. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:37:57 GMT overwings http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1723334.aspx You could read some of David Ortega's history,I was just wondering is this one of the good guy's,reading his positions I did find he is a strong supporter of wealth distribution,Ortega says either do it by taxing or simply take it to give to them that needs money. click link below for more details on this leader who is one of the many foreigner that has endorsed Barack Obama. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ortega *CLICK HERE* José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (pronounced [xoˈse ðanjεl ɔrteγa saˈβeðra])(born 11 November 1945) is the current President of Nicaragua. For much of his life, he has been a leader in the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional or FSLN). After a popular rebellion resulted in the overthrow and exile of dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, Ortega became a member of the ruling multipartisan junta and was later elected president, serving from 1985 to 1990. His first period in office was characterized by a controversial program of land reform and wealth redistribution, hostility from the United States, and armed rebellion by U.S.-backed Contras. Ortega was defeated by Violeta Barrios de Chamorro in the 1990 presidential election, but he remained an important figure in Nicaraguan opposition politics. He was an unsuccessful candidate for president in 1996 and 2001 before winning the 2006 presidential election. [1] Contents Early years Ortega was born to a middle-class family in La Libertad, department of Chontales, Nicaragua. His parents, Daniel Ortega and Lidia Saavedra, were in opposition to the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. His mother was imprisoned by the Somoza's National Guard for being in possession of love letters which the police insisted were coded political missives. He has two brothers, Humberto Ortega, former General, military leader and published writer, and Camilo Ortega, who died during combat in 1978. Ortega was arrested for political activities at the early age of 15. In 1963, he attended the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua, where he studied law,[2] and quickly joined the then-underground FSLN.[3] Ortega was imprisoned in 1967 for taking part in robbing a branch of the Bank of America brandishing a machine gun, but was released in late 1974 along with other Sandinista prisoners in exchange for Somocista hostages. While he was imprisoned at the El Modelo jail, just outside of Managua, he wrote poems, one of which he titled "I Never Saw Managua When Miniskirts Were in Fashion".[4] After his release, Ortega was exiled to Cuba, where he received several months of guerrilla training. He later returned to Nicaragua secretly.[5] Ortega married Rosario Murillo in 1978 but remarried her in 2005 to have the marriage recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. The couple has eight children.[2][6] She is currently the government's spokeswoman, government minister, among other positions.[7][8] [edit] The Sandinista revolution (1979-1990) For more details on Ortega’s past presidency, see Sandinista National Liberation Front. When Somoza was overthrown by the FSLN in July 1979, Ortega became a member of the five-person Junta of National Reconstruction, which also included Sandinista militant Moisés Hassan, novelist Sergio Ramírez, businessman Alfonso Robelo, and Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the widow of a martyred journalist. The FSLN came to dominate the junta, Robelo and Chamorro resigned, and Ortega became the de facto ruler of the country. In 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan condemned the FSLN for joining with Soviet-backed Cuba in supporting Marxist revolutionary movements in other Latin American countries such as El Salvador. The Reagan Administration authorized the CIA to begin financing, arming and training rebels, some of whom were former officers from Somoza's National Guard, as anti-Sandinista guerrillas. These were known collectively as the Contras. This also led to one of the largest political scandals in US history, (Iran-Gate or the Iran Contra Affair), when Oliver North and several members of the Reagan Administration defied the Boland Amendment, and going against the US Congress, helped sell arms to Iran, using the proceeds to fund the Contras. Between 1980 and 1989, over 30,000 Nicaraguans died in the conflict between the Sandinista government and the Contras. [9] In November 1984, Ortega called national elections; he won the presidency with 63% of the vote and took office on 10 January 1985. According to the vast majority of independent observers, the 1984 elections were perhaps the freest and fairest in Nicaraguan history. A report by an Irish parliamentary delegation stated: "The electoral process was carried out with total integrity. The seven parties participating in the elections represented a broad spectrum of political ideologies." The general counsel of New York's Human Rights Commission described the election as "free, fair and hotly contested." A study by the U.S. Latin American Studies Association (LASA) concluded that the FSLN (Sandinista Front) "did little more to take advantage of its incumbency than incumbent parties everywhere (including the U.S.) routinely do." Thirty-three percent of the Nicaraguan voters cast ballots for one of six opposition parties – three to the right of the Sandinistas, three to the left – which had campaigned with the aid of government funds and free TV and radio time. Two conservative parties captured a combined 23 percent of the vote. They held rallies across the country (a few of which were disrupted by FSLN supporters) and blasted the Sandinistas in terms far harsher than Walter Mondale's 1984 critiques of incumbent U.S. President Reagan. Most foreign and independent observers noted this pluralism in debunking the Reagan administration charge – prominent in the U.S. press – that it was a "Soviet-style sham" election.[10] Some opposition parties boycotted it, under pressure from U.S. embassy officials, and it was denounced as being unfair by the Reagan administration.[11] Reagan thus maintained that he was justified to continue supporting the Contras' "democratic resistance".[12] [edit] Interim years Celebrating 1 May 2005, in the Plaza of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba. Celebrating 1 May 2005, in the Plaza of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba. In the 1990 presidential election, Ortega lost to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, his former colleague in the junta. Chamorro was supported by a 14-party anti-Sandinista alliance known as the National Opposition Union (Unión Nacional Opositora, UNO), an alliance that ranged from conservatives and liberals to communists. Contrary to what most observers expected, Chamorro shocked Ortega and won the election. In Ortega's concession speech the following day he vowed to keep "ruling from below" a reference to the power that the FSLN still wielded in various sectors. He was also quoted saying: ...We leave victorious... because we Sandinistas have spilled blood and sweat not to cling to government posts, but to bring Latin America a little dignity, a little social justice. – Daniel Ortega[4] Ortega ran for election again, in October 1996 and November 2001, but lost on both occasions to Arnoldo Alemán and Enrique Bolaños, respectively. In these elections, a key issue was the allegation of corruption. In Ortega’s last days as president, through a series of legislative acts known as “The Piñata”, estates that had been seized by the Sandinista government (some valued at millions and even billions US$) became the private property of various FSLN officials, including Ortega himself. Ortega's policies became more moderate during his time in opposition, and he gradually reduced much of his former Marxist rhetoric in favor of an agenda of more moderate democratic socialism. His Roman Catholic faith has become more intense in recent years as well, leading Ortega to embrace a variety of socially conservative policies; in 2006 the FSLN endorsed a strict law banning all abortions in Nicaragua. In 1998, Daniel Ortega's stepdaughter Zoilamérica Narváez released a 48-page report describing her allegations that Ortega had systematically sexually abused her for 9 years beginning when she was 11.[13] The case could not proceed in Nicaraguan courts because Ortega had immunity from prosecution as a member of parliament, and the five-year statute of limitations for sexual abuse and rape charges was judged to have been exceeded. Narváez's complaint was heard by the Inter American Human Rights Commission on 4 March 2002. [14] In 2006, Hillel Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch, expressed concern that election of Ortega, described as having "highly substantiated" charges of sexual abuse raised against him, to the Presidency of Nicaragua, could undermine worldwide NGO efforts against child abuse and sexual violence.[15] [edit] Current activities [edit] FSLN-PLC Alliance in the National Assembly Ortega was instrumental in creating the controversial strategic pact between the FSLN and the Constitutional Liberal Party (Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, PLC). The controversial alliance of Nicaragua's two major parties aimed at distributing the powers between the PLC and FSLN, and preventing other parties from rising. "El Pacto," as it is known in Nicaragua, is said to have personally benefited former presidents Ortega and Alemán greatly, while constraining then president Enrique Bolaños. One of the key accords of the pact was to lower the percentage necessary to win a presidential election in the first round from 45% to 35%, a change in electoral law that would become decisive in Ortega's favor in the 2006 elections. [edit] 2006 Presidential Election The 2006 Nicaraguan presidential election was held on 5 November 2006. FSLN presidential candidate Ortega was the victor in the November elections, having attained 37.99% of the votes cast. The Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:51:14 GMT kennyrose http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/916993.aspx I've been living in Rome for the past 23 years and though I have an Italian nationality, I'm originally from El Salvador, Central America. This morning I was at the supermarket in line to pay what I had bought when an old lady stepped in front of me and starting putting her things on the counter. I told her to please move behind me since I was in line first. Her reply was: "JUST GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY". I told her to please go ahead and pay her stuff cause I really felt sad for her. She was 80 years old and was definitely uglier on the inside than she was on the outside. I said it was such a waste of time to have lived for 80 years and be so full of hatred towards other human beings. That's what I said but truth is I would've loved to just punch her in the face! Aaagghhh! Funny thing is that since I don't look like the typical Latin American, she thought I was from Poland or some other Eastern Euopean country... Not that this changes anything! How do you react to racist people? Has anything like this happened to you? Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:51:01 GMT chamina http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1653174.aspx What is the best place you have ever traveled to? My favorite is a country Honduras. It is near Guatamala and El Salvador. It has everything, although it has a lot of poverty it is still a beautiful place. Rain forests, Mountains, beaches,ruins, cities. I enjoyed my time there. I would love to go back and take my husband. What place do you love? Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:10:48 GMT dani27