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Newsline: Central America urged to share embassies
El Salvador’s foreign minister says Central American nations should share some embassies to reduce costs. He suggests they share embassy offices in India, Russia, Australia and Scandinavia. Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez says the purpose is to cut the cost of posting diplomats and allow them to have representation in more nations. Martinez said that he pitched the idea to other Central American foreign ministers during this week’s meeting of the Organization of American States in El Salvador.
Newsline El Salvador diplomat asks Sheen for apology
The El Salvadoran consul general in in Los Angeles has asked Charlie Sheen to apologize for what he says were disrespectful comments about the Central American nation. Walter Duran made the remarks at a news conference held in response to Sheen, who said earlier this week that he’d rather move to El Salvador and sell shoes than battle his estranged wife in court for custody of their twin sons. Duran also asked Sheen to consider opening a shoe factory, saying it is an opportune time since El Salvador recently began giving away shoes to needy students. Sheen’s 23-month-old sons with estranged wife Brooke Mueller were removed from his home last week.
Newsline: Mexican diplomat’s wife shot dead
The wife of a Mexican diplomat working with the nation’s embassy in El Salvador was shot dead here in an attack that left her husband wounded. Guillermo and Claudia Medina were driving down a busy street here when assailants on a motorcycle opened fire on their car, media reports said. Witnesses said they heard four-to-six shots. Police said they had no information on the motive for the attack. Guillermo Medina, who holds the rank of first secretary at the Mexican Embassy here, was wounded in February during an attempted robbery.
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