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El SALVADOR: GOVERNMENT SETS UP AGENCY TO HELP ABUSED CHILDREN
Spanish/Nat
As crime rates continue to rise in El Salvador, the government has created an agency to help mistreated and abused children.
The Centre for the Protection of Children is designed to help children who have suffered from the...
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Country votes in presidential elections, candidates, reax
1. Wide of Bible Baptist Tabernacle "Friends of Israel" evangelical church
2. Mid of leftist FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front) party presidential candidate Mauricio Funes on stage with evangelical leaders
3. Mid of Funes...
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+4:3 Latin American indigenous groups celebrate UN International Indigenous Day
Indigenous people across Latin America celebrated the International Day of the World's Indigenous People on Thursday.
In a ceremony at the Saviour of the World Plaza in San Salvador, Salvador's indigenous people marked the day with...
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El Salvador- Rally/Election
GS CAS EL SALVADOR: Major Roberto D'Aubuisson, the candidate
14038408 for the right-wing ARENA party, comes under attack from
1"VT+BVU critics both within El Salvador and various western
countries. On March 5,...
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EL SALVADOR: PRISONS SUFFERING FROM ACUTE OVERCROWDING
Spanish/Nat
The recent crackdown on crime by the Salvadorean government is rapidly undermining the country's penal system.
Prisons throughout El Salvador are already suffering from acute overcrowding problems - which have sparked riots...
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EL SALVADOR: CENTRAL AMERICAN LEADERS ATTEND FREE TRADE SUMMIT
Spanish/Nat
Central American leaders have embarked on a two-day meeting in El Salvador to discuss potential free trade agreements with Mexico.
According to Central American businessmen only Mexico has benefited from established bilateral...
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USA: SALVADORIAN REFUGEES MAY BE FORCED TO RETURN
Eng/Nat
Tens of thousands of Salvadorans who fled to the United States during their country's bloody civil war, may be soon forced to return home against their will.
Newspaper reports in Washington say the United States is set to end a...
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Central American leaders meet to discuss reconstruction efforts
1. Wide of donor countries, plus members of SICA (Central American Integration System), which are Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and Belize
2. Mid of Honduran President Porfirio Lobo
3. Various of more...
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EL SALVADOR: ASIAN FACTORIES MOVING TO NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES
Spanish/Nat
Asian factories in El Salvador are decamping to neighbouring countries in the quest for cheap labour.
Some nine thousand jobs have been lost with the closure of 21 textile factories and more are expected to follow.
The...
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USA: OJ SIMPSON TRIAL: OJ PRIME SUSPECT
English/Nat
A lead investigator in the O-J Simpson murder trial Monday said Simpson was considered the one and only suspect almost right from the beginning.
In the courtroom for the first time in over a week, the jury heard the...
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Preparations and security ahead of presidential elections on Sunday
Election authorities in El Salvador distributed the last remaining boxes of election materials to more than 1,500 polling stations across the country on Saturday, as nearly five million voters prepare for Sunday's presidential run-off...
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El Salvador government wants to attract investment by new scheme
1. Pull out from construction site
2. Wideshot of men working on construction site
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Carlos Quintanilla, Vice President of El Salvador:
"Since we are going to have a free trade agreement with the United States...
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WRAP A look ahead to upcoming elections; reax in Guazapa
San Salvador - 14 March 2009
1. Street of San Salvador, electoral sign on top of building
2. Wide of street, newspapers stall
3. Pan from one newspaper headline reading (Spanish) "Everyone to vote," to another newspaper headline...
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Ex-officers from civil war period march in underwear
1. Protesters with banner, reading (Spanish): "El Salvador's Disabled Armed Forces Association (ALFAES)"
2. Close-up of Che Guevara picture on leg of protester, tilt up to protester wearing underwear
3. Close up of sign, reading...
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EL SALVADOR: SAN SALVADOR: ANNUAL PUPUSA MAKING COMPETITION
Spanish/Nat
Easter week celebrations of a different kind took place in El Salvador on Saturday with the annual pupusa making competition.
A pupusa - similar to a tortilla - is a Salvador national dish and each year in the town of ...
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Central American Integration System, Latam leaders meet, Zoellick
1. Security nearby venue where Central American Integration System (SICA) summit is taking place
2. Various exterior shots of summit venue
3. Various of leaders during opening ceremony
4. Close shot of Panama President Ricardo...
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EL SALVADOR: SAN SALVADOR: WORLD CUP FEVER HITS CAPITAL
Spanish/Nat
The streets of El Salvador's capital - San Salvador - are expected to be empty for the next four weeks.
The cause for this mass desertion is the 16th World Cup finals.
Television sales have increased dramatically in the last...
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Prince of Asturias on visit to improve relations
1. Spanish Prince Felipe with El Salvador President Tony Saca walking into event
2. Tony Saca and Prince Felipe enter
3. Cut away to media
4. Wide of meeting
5. Central American businessmen at meeting
6. Women in audience
7. Wide of...
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EL SALVADOR: STREET GANGS SIGN PEACE AGREEMENT
San Salvador, 8 April 1996
1. Various of "mara" members doing their special hand signals.
2. Gang member.
3. Cutaway hands.
4. Gang members.
5. SOUNDBITE Member of La 18 gang.
6. SOUNDBITE Member of Mara Salvatrucha gang.
7. Various of...
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Former president withdraws as candidate for OAS chief
San Salvador - 8 April 2005
1. Wide shot press conference
2. Mid shot press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Francisco Flores, Former Salvadoran President:
"I believe that the integration project (referring to the OAS) is much more...
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Funerals of two policemen killed during clashes with students
1. Mid shot of National Civil Police Director Rodrigo Avila at wake for the dead police officers
2. Mid shot of shot police officer Miguel Argueta's widow Herminia with newborn child
3. Close-up of the child
4. Wide shot of family...
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Former guerrilla group-turned-political party wins mayor's office
1. Mid view of militants from the FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front) waiting outside tabulation centre
2. Various of police and protestors exchanging tear gas bombs
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Garcia Funes, Police officer:...
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SYND 11 4 80 AFTERMATH OF FIRE IN SAN SALVADOR AND DESERTED NEIGHBOURING VILLAGE
Aftermath of fire that destroyed Annex building in San Salvador and an interview with a man as he is getting ready to flee already deserted village.
1. ms crowd on street
2. cu fireman at work
3. gv smouldering Annex building, smoke...
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EL SALVADOR: US SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER VISIT (2)
Span/Eng/Nat
US Secretary of State Warren Christopher has left El Salvador for Chile after promising in San Salvador to aid the region's economy.
Although his visit is been overshadowed in part by the downing of two civilian U-S planes...