WORLD
August 23, 2004 | From Times Wire Reports
Honduras tightened security at foreign embassies and declared a terror alert after receiving information that Al Qaeda was trying to recruit Hondurans to attack embassies of the U.S., Britain, Spain and El Salvador. Security Minister Oscar Alvarez said some Hondurans had been offered money to carry out attacks and others had been approached on ideological grounds. Honduras has a tiny Islamic community.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 16, 1990
Over the last decade U.S. taxpayers have sent more than $4.5 billion to El Salvador's military to help it fight a bloody war against leftist guerrillas. With each new aid appropriation U.S. policy-makers shake their heads over the lack of progress toward peace and the frequently heinous behavior of El Salvador's security forces. But the aid continues to flow, so far to no good end. That must change.
NEWS
March 22, 1985 | DOYLE McMANUS, Times Staff Writer
The former chief of El Salvador's intelligence agency charged Thursday that a Nicaraguan rebel officer trained some of his country's rightist "death squads" and helped organize the 1980 assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. The Salvadoran, Col. Roberto Santivanez, identified the Nicaraguan as Col. Ricardo Lau, who until recently was chief of intelligence for the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, a U.S.-backed rebel group.