El Salvador

War/Photography

Images of battles won and lost paint us all with the brush of brutality at a searing, resonating MFAH exhibit.

Unarmed Man, Kenneth Brian Releford, Fatally Shot After Charging Police, HPD Says

Police fatally shot an unarmed man, Kenneth Brian Releford, early Thursday morning near downtown, following a confrontation when he approached officers with a hand tucked behind his back, police said. This was the second time in three weeks that police gunned down a person who had a suspected ment ... More >>

Last Night: OFF! & Negative Approach at Warehouse Live

OFF!, Negative Approach, Power Trip Warehouse Live September 20, 2012 Thursday night, East Downtown was hoppin.' The streets were filled with orange-clad soccer fans ready to watch the Dynamo whip up on El Salvador's C.D. FAS, and the bars on St. Emmanuel St. were doing brisk business. Rewind: Ke ... More >>

El Salvador vs. New Zealand: BBVA's First International Match Ends In A 2-2 draw

So what do you get when you cross FIFA's 49th-ranked team against its 130th? You get BBVA Compass Stadium's first international soccer match featuring El Salvador and New Zealand. And it didn't disappoint. The 2-2 draw had more goals than either of the Dynamo's first two games at BBVA. A relativel ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

Welcome back to the weekly roundup, where yours truly is currently racing against an incoming hellstorm-raingasm, and hoping to get this thing completed before the bottom falls out. Will I succeed? The only way to know is to read on. We started the week off right with sushi, sushi, sushi, sushi. Do ... More >>

East Side Vacation

Every trip to cheerful Salvadoran spot El Petate is an adventure.

East Side Vacation at El Petate: A Guide to Salvadoran Cuisine

If you're anything like me, pupusas are the first thing that spring to mind when thinking of Salvadoran food. And why not: The fat, round pockets of cheese, beans, meat (and sometimes all three) are like the divine offspring of Mexican quesadillas and gorditas. They're portable and easy to consume, ... More >>

Cowboy Diaries: Clint Cannon -- Surfer Dude

True cowboys are hard to find, but not at the Houston Rodeo. Life on the road leads them here this time every year for the biggest rodeo in the world, where they'll ride and wrangle livestock for cash and glory. Each day, Hair Balls will spotlight one person with enough dirt on his boots to call him ... More >>

We Love Food

Our 100 favorite dishes in Houston.

The 7 Deadly Queues: Restaurants Where You'll Always Have to Wait in Line

Photo by Ronald WoanThe longest line of them all...​I greeted last week's news of a second Banana Leaf with a bittersweet kind of joy. It's sad to lose the only good Chinese halal restaurant in Chinatown, but if the trade-off is getting another Banana Leaf location...then I guess it's almost a ... More >>

National Illegal Immigrant Sting Nets Over 2,900 Convicted Criminals, 125 in Houston

On Wednesday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the results of its "Cross Check" enforcement operation targeting convicted criminals who are also illegal immigrants. The sting conducted in all 50 states netted 2,901 criminals, including 125 in the Houston area. The seven- ... More >>

Seven MS-13 Gang Members Indicted Here

Three murders, the feds say.​The U.S. Attorney's Office announced the unsealing of indictments for racketeering and murder against seven members of the notorious MS-13 gang, who have been arrested. The USAO says MS-13 is: a criminal organization in Houston that functioned as a unit engaged i ... More >>

Wilber Adalid Rodriguez: Homeless Man Murders Another Over National "Honor"

Some things are better left unargued​You'd hope that San Antonio residents Wilber Adalid Rodriguez and Jose Antonio Rodriguez would find a way to get along. As the old blues song goes, they were both poor boys a long ways from home: the 24-year-old Wilber hails from El Salvador, while Jose, 28 ... More >>

Terry Grier Girds His Loins And Wants You to Do the Same

Photos by Margaret DowningFormer Governor Mark White with Terry Grier​Declaring "we can't afford to press the pause button on our children's education," Houston ISD Superintendent Terry Grier vowed to continue doing the things he believes have to be done, even if the Texas economy is in the cr ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

Note: Beef jerky is best enjoyed in a t-top Firebird with .38 Special blasting from your stereo and your majestic mullet trailing behind you in the breeze.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we've never yet pegged a rude waiter with a saltshaker from across the ... More >>

Breakfast at Brasil: Eggs El Salvador

​I know that this will not sit well with many Montrose-dwelling diners, but I don't really like Brasil, at least not for the food. Sure, it's a great place to go hang out over a cup of coffee or a beer, relaxing on the patio and watching the Montrosian wildlife walk by, caught in their timele ... More >>

Salvadoran American Cultural Day

We think the festival's title lost something in translation - like an extra day

Tiffany Young-Hartley: Beheading Related To Case Or Not?

A tradition unlike any other​The Mexican military leader of the investigation into the disappearance of David Michael Hartley has been beheaded, according to Texas state representative Aaron Pena and Zapata County sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez.A spokesman in the Tamaulipas state prosecutor's office c ... More >>

All-You-Can-Eat Pupusas in Bellaire

​Sweet fancy Jesus. That was the first thing that ran through my mind as I was driving down Bellaire -- on my way to a different restaurant entirely -- and saw Pupusa Buffet instead. A whole buffet? Of pupusas? I had to stop. Pupusa Buffet (5920 Bellaire) is a no-frills pupuseria in a part o ... More >>

Palma Garcia Marlen-Beatrice, 30, Bayou Body Count No. 181

Photo courtesy HCSOWeird, but surprisingly successful, way to kill your wife​Back on May 13, 48-year-old Pedro Cueva-Ferman thought he had come up with the perfect way to get rid of his wife and get clean away with the crime, according to allegations in a probable cause warrant on file at the Harr ... More >>

Raul Dominguez's Playitas

​Raul Dominguez is a good bartender. Not only did he incite fervency in the crowd at the Iron Bartender competition recently, he also knows how to charm the bar patrons at Yelapa Playa Mexicana (2303 Richmond). We can't get enough of his sweet and spicy creations, such as the oft-yearned-for ... More >>

David Corbett: Do They Know I'm Running?

His new novel has been called a "rich, hard-hitting epic"

Crash Reports

Running a red light and killing someone does not automatically mean you're in trouble in Harris County.

The T Visa Program And A Fatal Crash

​In this week's feature, a man named Steve Morrison was hit in his car and killed by Rosa Villegas-Vatres, a legal immigrant from El Salvador. Villegas-Vatres was allowed to stay here through the T visa program, which was founded about nine years ago by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft as a too ... More >>

Visiting Finca Santa Rita

We recently wrote a review of a coffee from Cuvee Coffee, a roaster out of Spicewood, Texas. The coffee we discussed was the El Salvador Santa Rita Peaberry. Mike McKim, the owner of Cuvee Coffee, just got back from a trip to Finca Santa Rita, the very farm where the coffee came from, and the comp ... More >>

Salvadorans and Murals

Dynamo Choosing A Bad Time To Slump

Photo courtesy Houston Dynamo​Everything was aligned perfectly for the Houston Dynamo on Wednesday night. Before their final CONCACAF Champions League match, Pachuca defeated Arabe Unido, meaning all the Dynamo had to do was win against the previously winless Isidro Metapan to advance to the quart ... More >>

Oscar Romero’s Legacy

Sister Dianna Ortiz and Bishop Medardo E. Gomez Soto discuss the effect winning the Rothko Chapel’s human rights award had on their lives

Seco's Latin Cuisine

$13 at Sabor! on Bellaire

Holy Shit!

Countdown to 12

A Salvadoran boy awaits the birthday that renders him a warrior

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Zwicks: "Faith People"

At Casa Juan Diego, compassion -- not green cards -- has always mattered most

Wax Fantastic

Electro-phenom DJ Keoki spins by Numbers

Canadian Invasion

SXSW heaps sloppy seconds on Houston

Best Pupusas

El Pupusodromo

We're Gonna Get You, Soccer!

If they want a team, Houstonians have got to represent

Globalization's McBacklash

Guatemala’s Pollo Campero has American fast-food franchises running scared

Reel Guilty

The military thriller High Crimes sets a new low for Ashley Judd

Battle Corps

How the fine art of diplomacy dissolved into a bitter two-word war

Loco for Loroco

The secret herb at Houston's pupuserias can drive you out of your mind

Crema de la Crema

Los Ranchitos' mellow, cream-heavy cuisine belies its strife-ridden origins in El Salvador

Child Trek

The devastation of Hurricane Mitch propelled thousands across our southern border in search of new lives in America. And those were just the kids.

Deporting Disparities

Immigration law divides Central Americans

Kicking the Gang Attraction

In Gulfton, soccer is much more than a game

Stay or Go?

Houston's Salvadorans are given more time to worry