Salvador, Brazil's third biggest city, is one of the venues for the football World Cup in 2014.
It is exerting growing influence in El Salvador, Brazil, Argentina, Peru and among FARC terrorists in Colombia.
Ginny Green, a Minnesota mom, was stuck in Salvador, Brazil, unable to get a non-immigrant visa for the 4-month-old girl she adopted last week.
Brazil's third city Salvador, in Bahia state, northeast Brazil, has some of the strongest links to Africa.
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Transat Jacques Vabre competitors sail in the opposite direction to the coffee trade route of the 19th Century, leaving Le Havre in France and heading for Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.
According to a leaked parliamentary report, several cadets on the Gorch Fock were reluctant to climb the mast in November following the death of a 25-year-old student - known only as Sarah S - during a stop-over in Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.
"If you compare it with Brazil or El Salvador or Honduras in terms of justice it's impressive what Chile has done so far, " Mr Dulitzky said.
For example, I know the United States, Brazil and El Salvador jointly are interested in pursuing additional measures that can expand biofuels and energy development that could be good for all three countries.
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Salvador was the first colonial capital of Brazil and its central district, Pelourinho, now a UNESCO world heritage site, was the New World's first slave market from 1553, according to UNESCO.
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This March, I will travel to Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador to forge new alliances across the Americas.
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This March, I will travel to Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador to forge new alliances for progress in the Americas.
There were seven governments represented at the Forum: Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Today is the third day of our focus on Brazil, and it brings us to the city of Salvador, the capital of Bahia state.
To see just how hard that can be, consider the case of Salvador de Bahia, for two centuries until 1763 the capital of Portuguese Brazil.
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