El Salvador

"See you soon, great warrior," said the El Salvador Surf Federation.

The town of Nejapa, El Salvador celebrated its annual fireball festival with participants pelting each other with rags drenched in gasoline that have been rolled into tight flaming balls. The tradition is to commemorate the 1658 volcanic eruption that forced the town to be abandoned.

A young rape victim, Evelyn Hernández, was suspected of having an abortion and charged with homicide in El Salvador. She has now been acquitted by a judge at a retrial, in a case that has attracted international attention to the country’s strict abortion laws.

“Thank God, justice was done,” Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez said in an emotional announcement outside court.