June 22, 2001

El Diario de Hoy reports that El Salvador's total housing deficit is 718,000 units. That is to say, that 36% of the country's families are not living in dignified housing. During the next two years, the government plans to build 50,000 homes and repair 64,000. Since the earthquake 218,000 temporary shelters have been built.

June 20, 2001

La Prensa Grafica reports that high winds destroyed more than a hundred temporary shelters in several communities near San Salvador.

June 12, 2001

El Diario de Hoy reports that 21 communities in the Bajo Lempa remain vulnerable to flooding. Although work had begun on flood walls and drainage systems, the government has now left that work only half-done.

Aftershocks continue in El Salvador, which felt 5 tremors in Usulutan alone yesterday.

June 11, 2001

El Diario de Hoy reports that Ricardo Montenegro, a close ally of the Salvadoran government and Executive Director of UNIFERSA, was involved in the theft of thousands of tons of fertilizer donated by the Japanese government. Montenegro was also connected to the theft of fertilizer, also donated by the Japanese, in 1994. Investigations have confirmed that at least half of the Japanese donation wound up in the wrong hands.

The Salvadoran Attorney General does not have sufficient funds to investigate another scandal, involving illegal wire tapping.

The PCN (National Conciliation Party) has confirmed that it will no longer collaborate with the ruling ARENA party. Francisco Merino, head of the PCN, forsees collaboration with El Salvador's main opposition party, the FMLN.

June 4, 2001

La Prensa Grafica reports that significant tremors continue in El Salvador, including one on Saturday registering 4.7 on the Richter scale.

The rainy season has begun, raising fears of major landslides because of erosion and earthquakes leaving soil unstable. Damage to drainage systems has left certain regions even more vulnerable to flooding, including the Bajo Lempa, San Salvador, and San Miguel.