<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Tax Season Anxiety With an Extra Twist]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54435-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54435-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If tax time brings many Americans an annual wave of frustration, it is perhaps  especially stressful for low-income immigrants.]]></description><author> Mary Beth Sheridan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In OAS Election, U.S. Favorite Bows Out]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40508-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40508-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The U.S. choice to lead the Organization of American States is dropping out of  tomorrow's election for the post, amid indications he had garnered little support despite heavy lobbying from Washington.]]></description><author> Mary Beth Sheridan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[El Salvador's Marked Men]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50422-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50422-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  SAN SALVADOR  --  It's a sweltering day and sweat beads on Freddy Monterosa's face, but he keeps his long-sleeved shirt on.]]></description><author> Traci Carl</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salvadorans Near Deadline On Permits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51511-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51511-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ El Salvador's ambassador appealed yesterday to immigrants with special temporary work permits to renew them before a March 8 deadline, saying tens of thousands of Salvadorans still had not done so.]]></description><author> Mary Beth Sheridan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition Heats Up for Top Job at OAS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55474-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55474-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   The campaign is heating up to decide who will be the next secretary general of the Organization of American States. Candidates from El Salvador, Mexico and Chile have formally presented their risumis and their proposals for running the 34-nation institution to the Permanent Council of the OAS in the past few weeks.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salvadoran Leader Touts Permits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59873-2005Jan8.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59873-2005Jan8.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Salvadoran President Tony Saca was cheered yesterday in Silver Spring as he launched a campaign to remind Salvadorans to re-register for temporary U.S. work permits.]]></description><author> Mary Beth Sheridan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legal Residency Extended for Salvadorans]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54436-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54436-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The U.S. government yesterday announced an 18-month extension of a program that has given legal residence to about 250,000 Salvadoran immigrants while their country recovers from a pair of powerful earthquakes.]]></description><author> Mary Beth Sheridan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salvadorans' Advocate  Presses to Steer Some Projects Home]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28083-2004Dec26.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28083-2004Dec26.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ About 15 minutes after Andreas "Elmer" Arias sat down for a meal of tacos and enchiladas at a Salvadoran restaurant in Arlington, a man on his lunch break walked over to greet him.]]></description><author> Krissah Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gang Member Admits Role in 2001 Va. Slaying]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53423-2004Dec9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53423-2004Dec9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Salvadoran gang member admitted yesterday in a Fairfax County courtroom that he led the gang rape of a Falls Church area woman in the summer of 2001, then kicked her in the neck with such force that it killed her.]]></description><author> Tom Jackman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salvadorans Chase the 'Iraqi Dream']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49592-2004Dec8.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49592-2004Dec8.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Juan Nerio, a 44-year-old mason's assistant, was sick of living in a mud hut on the side of a volcano. When he heard that an American company was offering six times his $200 monthly wage, he signed up. Six weeks later he found himself holding an AK-47 assault rifle and guarding a U.S. diplomatic complex in Iraq.]]></description><author> Kevin Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[4 Held in Salvador in Killing of Teamster]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33977-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33977-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MEXICO CITY, Dec. 3 -- Police in El Salvador arrested four people Friday in connection with the Nov. 5 murder of Gilberto Soto, a Teamsters union organizer from New Jersey who U.S. labor leaders said was assassinated for trying to organize workers in a nation with a long history of hostility to unionized labor.]]></description><author> Kevin Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Bid to Cuts Cost Of Money Transfers For Immigrants]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18876-2004Nov28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18876-2004Nov28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Salvadoran immigrant Aresenio Ayala walked past the Western Union outlet on Mount Pleasant Road last week and stopped instead at Mi Pueblo, where he sent money to a relative in San Salvador. He said he decided to give the company a try after he saw a flier in the neighborhood.]]></description><author> Krissah Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salvadorans Buying Up Stakes in the Homeland]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16799-2004Nov27.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16799-2004Nov27.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Many Salvadoran immigrants have amassed enough wealth to buy homes and land in their home country, reshaping the housing and development market and helping push up real estate prices.]]></description><author> Krissah Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immigrants' Protected Status Extended]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17131-2004Nov1.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17131-2004Nov1.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security Monday announced an 18-month extension for Hondurans and Nicaraguans who were granted temporary U.S. residence after a devastating hurricane in their homelands.]]></description><author> Mary Beth Sheridan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immigrant Sends Hope Back Home]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40632-2004Oct17.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40632-2004Oct17.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Successful franchisee has several commercial and philanthropic ventures in his native El Salvador.]]></description><author> Krissah Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salvadoran Companies Export Promise to D.C. Trade Show]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36812-2004Oct15.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36812-2004Oct15.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Small Salvadoran companies are sponsored by Expro at the D.C. Trade Show as part of a $6 million project by the U.S. Agency for International Development.]]></description><author> Krissah Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In El Salvador, a Holiday for Helping]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22978-2004Oct10.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22978-2004Oct10.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As Yom Kippur passed, I thought of being in El Salvador at this time last year. I didn't set out to be there for the New Year holidays, but through a serendipitous event, I learned of a nonprofit volunteer medical mission going to El Salvador.]]></description><author> Judy Colbert</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salvadorans Seek Access to Absentee Ballot]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23038-2004Oct10.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23038-2004Oct10.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of Salvadoran activists from across the United States wrapped up a three-day meeting yesterday with a vow to press for the right to cast absentee ballots in presidential elections in their homeland.]]></description><author> Mary Beth Sheridan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lineup Shifts Pay Off]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21270-2004Oct9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21270-2004Oct9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Brian McBride and 20-year-old Eddie Johnson strike for goals on Saturday night to secure the U.S. national team a hard-fought, 2-0 win over host El Salvador.]]></description><author> Steven Goff</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Keeps Focus]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18691-2004Oct8.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18691-2004Oct8.html?nav=rss_world/americas/centralamerica/elsalvador/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:40:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The United States faces a struggling El Salvador team on the road as it tries to wrap up a spot in the next round of World Cup qualifying.]]></description><author> Steven Goff</author></item></channel></rss>