With less than 10 days left before legislative and local elections, streets of El Salvador's capital have been flooded with enthusiastic canvassers, who, just for $10, eagerly besieged cars and passers-by, thrashing out campaign leaflets, a Sputnik correspondent reports

Tropical Storm Amanda, which developed in the Pacific Ocean and hit Latin America on Sunday, has left at least 16 people dead in El Salvador, the country's El Mundo newspaper reported on Tuesday, adding that seven people are still missing