El Salvador is facing a food shortage after three days heavy rainstorms washed away crops that could have fed an estimated 10,000 people.

Soldiers and civilian volunteers in El Salvador are looking for survivors of floods and landslides that have killed at least 130 people. Nearly three days of heavy rainstorms have left many in the Central American country without electricity or clean water.

El Salvador and Cuba are repairing their political ties as El Salvador appointed its first Cuban ambassador since the '60s.

Christian Poveda, a French documentarian who released a film about gangs in El Salvador, was killed in an apparent gang ambush near San Salvador. Poveda's most recent film, La Vida Loca, focused on bitter MS 13 rivals, the Mara 18 gang.

Schools in El Salvador are being closed for two weeks in an effort to shield the nation's young from exposure to the H1N1 virus.

Leftist FMLN leader Mauricio Funes was sworn in as president of El Salvador and immediately restored the Central American country's ties with Cuba.

The Los Angeles Times profiles the increasing violence in El Salvador, a country that averaged 12 murders a day the first three months of this year. The murder rate in El Salvador is five times higher than México and 10 times higher than the U.S.

Mauricio Funes of the left-wing FMLN party was elected President of El Salvador this past weekend. It is the first time in 18 years the conservative Arena party loses a presidential election.

As El Salvador's presidential election draws closer, presidential candidate Mauricio Funes of the left-wing FMLN party continues to compare himself to American president Barack Obama. Funes, who hold a slight lead in national polls, has adopted Obama's "Yes We Can" slogan and uses Obama's image in TV ads.

A Salvadorean immigrant who is serving 10 years in prison for assault has been charged with the 2001 murder of U.S. government intern Chandra Levy. The intern's disappearance ended the career of California Democrat Gary Condit after it was discovered the two were having an affair.