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EL SALVADOR

Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 25, 2016
Central Americans surge north, hoping to reach U.S. before Trump inauguration
Central American countries warned on Thursday that large numbers of migrants have fled their poor, violent homes since Donald Trump's surprise election win, hoping to reach the United States before he takes office next year.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 2, 2016
'Embrace of the Serpent': Amid the poisons of colonization
While Leonardo DiCaprio's masochistic lead performance garnered greater acclaim, perhaps the most striking aspect of "The Revenant" was the diligence it showed in telling the Native American side of the story. Yet for all the scenes of authentic Arikara dialogue, the indigenous characters in Alejandro G. Inarritu's film were never more than sketches — bit players in a white man's revenge tale.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 31, 2016
Former president of El Salvador arrested on corruption charges
El Salvador's former President Antonio Saca was arrested Saturday on corruption charges alleging misuse of public funds, the attorney general's office said on Sunday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 16, 2016
Salvador Dali: a life less ordinary
The early literary surrealists of the mid-1920s were skeptical of any visual possibility. Their aim — to fuse art with life, reality and dreams — was to be realized through the immediacy of writing. Painting, by contrast, was a laborious, indirect expression mediated by style and technique. Andre Breton, the leader, central theorist and "pope" of surrealism, held out for a visual effectuation. It arrived with Salvador Dali (1904-89), whose entire career — from painter and sculptor to filmmaker, book illustrator, perfumer, jeweler and media celebrity — is currently being explored at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 28, 2016
'Salvador Dali'
July 1-Sept. 4
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 15, 2016
El Salvador declares a drought emergency for the first time ever
El Salvador declared a water shortage emergency for the first time in its history on Thursday, citing the effects of climate change and the El Nino phenomenon, the country's president said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 28, 2015
Banned-for-life Salvadoran national soccer player Alfredo Pacheco gunned down at gas station
Alfredo Pacheco, a soccer player who played for the Salvadoran national side before being banned from the sport for life for his involvement in match-fixing, was murdered on Sunday, the Salvadoran attorney general's office said.
WORLD
Oct 14, 2014
Powerful earthquake strikes off El Salvador
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck late on Monday off the coast of El Salvador and Nicaragua and was felt across Central America, killing at least one person, but there were no immediate reports of major damage.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 29, 2014
'Salvador Dali and Masters of Modern French Painting from the Collection of Morohashi Museum of Modern Art'
The Morohashi Museum of Modern Art in Fukushima Prefecture houses an impressive collection of European modern masterpieces, including a number of works by Spanish Surrealist genius Salvador Dali.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 12, 2013
U.S. role in aiding Pinochet
To bomb or not to bomb? That is the question that has been exercising self-proclaimed liberal interventionists over the past two decades, from Bosnia to Syria. The argument that divides public opinion across the Western world is how far military means can be used to punish dictators.

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