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Ana is a United States citizen who was born in El Salvador. After 20 years of living together in the US, her husband is now stuck on the Mexican side of the border. A federal law, criticized by the president, prohibits him from living with her.
HEADLINE: Separated couple awaits immigration law change
CAPTION: Ana is a United States citizen who was born in El Salvador. After 20 years of living together in the US, her husband is now stuck on the Mexican side of the border. A...
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US defence secretary comments on Secret Service scandal, Iran
1. Wide of Chilean military orchestra playing
2. US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta and his Chilean counterpart Andres Allamand inspecting guard of honour
3. Mid of Chilean military drummers
4. Panetta and Allamand approaching...
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EL SALVADOR: 50 STREET CHILDREN STAGE SOLEMN PROTEST
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Some fifty Salvadoran street children have staged a solemn protest to demand an investigation into the killing of six children in San Salvador last year.
The children gathered in a church in the capital and prayed for their...
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EL SALVADOR: ALLEGATIONS OF ILL TREATMENT OF FACTORY WORKERS
Spanish/Nat
In El Salvador, claims that workers at foreign owned assembly plants are being ill- treated have prompted questions about the government policy of marketing the country's cheap labour abroad.
Many foreign companies have...
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Aznar meets Central American leaders
1. Various of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar walking with El Salvadorean president and other Central American presidents
2. Pull out flags
3. Pan to flags
4. Aznar arriving at meetings
5. Pan meeting
6. Panamanian...
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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE: MORENO FUNERAL
Spanish/Nat
After being miraculously pulled out still alive from a mountain of dirt that collapsed on a San Salvador suburb in last Saturday's devastating earthquake, Sergio Moreno was returned to the ground on Thursday.
Friends and...
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Warrrant issued for frmr legal advisor to 10 US missionaries held in Haiti
San Salvador, El Salvador - February 16, 2010
1. Wide exterior of the central headquarters of National Police of El Salvador
2. Interior courtyard of headquarters
3. Set-up of Police Commissioner and Deputy Director of Investigations...
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EL SALVADOR PROTESTS STAGED OVER DISAPPEARANCE OF PRIEST
Spanish/Nat
Clergy members in El Salvador have staged a protest outside the U-S embassy to demand information on the disappearance of an American-born Jesuit priest.
James Carney disappeared in Honduras in 1983 when he entered the...
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Security stepped up amid terror threats to embassies
1. Wide shot of Tegucigalpa
2. Close up of newspaper headline announcing Al-Qaida threat
3. Wide shot of British embassy
4. Wide shot of Spanish embassy with flag over it
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Oscar Alvarez, Honduran Minister of...
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SALVADOR: PEASANTS DEMONSTRATE OVER LAND DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
Spanish/Nat
Marking the official deadline for final peace talks in El Salvador, peasants took to the streets of San Salvador to demand the government fulfill its promises of land distribution.
Although some peasants have received small...
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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE: HOSPITAL
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Hospitals in El Salvador are struggling to cope with the influx of injured from Saturday's devastating Central American earthquake.
Doctors erected a makeshift ward in the grounds of San Rafael Hospital in the Las ...
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Latest on US Vice President Biden's trip through Central America
US Vice President Joe Biden met with Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, who asked the US to start a temporary work programme for Guatemalan migrants and grant temporary protected status for Guatemalan migrants.
On Friday, the Obama...
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EL SALVADOR: STORMS CAUSE WIDESPREAD DAMAGE
Spanish/Nat
El Salvador has been whipped by wind and heavy rain as storms move across the south western American region.
The severe weather has caused widespread damage and is hampering the country's attempts to recover from the...
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LATIN AMERICA: FIRST VISIT BY POPE IN 13 YEARS
Spanish/Nat
Nearly 13 years after his last troubled visit, Pope John Paul II is returning to Central America to encourage peace in a region beset by war and decades of violence.
The Pope leaves Monday on a eight-day trip to Guatemala,...
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EL SALVADOR: ARMENIA: EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH
Spanish/Nat
Shock waves continue to rock El Salvador three days after an earthquake hit the Central American nation.
In the small town of Armenia, 75 kms from the capital San Salvador, people are struggling to find food and shelter.
This...
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EL SALVADOR: AID OPERATION MOUNTED ON POVERTY STRICKEN ISLANDS
Spanish/Nat
In a joint effort by the Salvadoran and U-S military, the poverty-stricken islands and coastline of the Gulf of Fonseca received much needed medical aid last week.
The region, which belongs to El Salvador, is home to some six...
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OAS plan to solve diplomatic dispute between Colombia and Ecuador
1. Various exteriors of the Organisation of the American States headquarters
2. Wide of meeting room, delegations sitting down ahead of session
3. Ecuadorean Foreign Minister MarÄżËa Isabel Salvador Crespo arriving and passing by...
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Over 2 billion US dollars are sent by US residents to El Salvador every year
San Salvador, El Salvador
1. Wide shot of people shopping in street market
2. Various of people handing over in US dollars
3. Medium shot of Juan Jose Garcia working at computer
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Jose Garcia, Central American...
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EL SALVADOR: REACTION TO ENFORCED REPATRIATION FROM THE US
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A short time ago the President of El Salvador spoke publicly for the first time about the possibility of thousands of his fellow countrymen being forced to leave the United States.
Speaking in the capital, San Salvador,...
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EL SALVADOR: MOTHER'S PLEA FOR MISSING CHILDREN
Spanish/Nat
SOUNDBITE: (in Spanish)
"Now perhaps it's not common practice to go out to the streets and plazas and scream. Perhaps our battles are in the forums and the parliaments where they want to impose laws to forget,...
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Bodies of four slain children and father returned home from US
1. Tilt from roof of airport to wide of road
2. Wide exterior of airport
3. Sign for number 4 hanger, where bodies were taken on arrival
4. Officials signing documents
5. Close up official
6. Document from the United States handing...
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Two leading presidential candidates vote in elections
1. Various of presidential candidate Tony Saca voting
2. Various shots of Schafik Handal, presidential candidate at a commemorative ceremony in honour of Monsenor Romero
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Schafik Handal, presidential candidate of...
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EL SALVADOR: POLLS PLACE FMLN ON EVEN FOOTING WITH RULING PARTY
Spanish/Nat
The steady transition of an armed rebel movement into a constitutionally elected party has thrown a serious contender into Salvador's arena prior to next year's presidential vote.
The rise of the Farabundo Marti National...
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EL SALVADOR: SAN SALVADOR: FORMER POLICE OFFICERS PROTEST
Spanish/Nat
Hundreds of former police officers have gone on the rampage in El Salvador.
They're demanding money which they say they were promised under the 1992 deal which ended El Salvador's civil war.
Around 300 former policemen...