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El Faro is an internationally acclaimed Central American digital news outlet founded in 1998 in El Salvador. [2] In April 2023, El Faro moved its administrative and legal operations to San José, Costa Rica, registering the newsroom as the non-profit Fundación Periódica. [3] The bulk of the newsroom is based in San Salvador, with reporters in ...
2024. Media gallery. v. t. e. The Salvadoran gang crackdown, referred to in El Salvador as the régimen de excepción ( Spanish for state of exception) [4] and the guerra contra las pandillas (Spanish for war against gangs ), [5] began in March 2022 in response to a crime spike between 25 and 27 March 2022, when 87 people were killed in El ...
Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez ( Spanish pronunciation: [naˈʝiβ buˈkele]; born 24 July 1981) is a Salvadoran politician and businessman currently serving as the 43rd president of El Salvador since 1 June 2019.
The Terrorism Confinement Center ( Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly referred to as CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built from July 2022 to January 2023 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador. CECOT was opened by the Salvadoran government in ...
Largest: San Salvador (1,740,847) Smallest: Cabañas (164,945) Areas. Largest: Usulután (2,130.4 km 2) Smallest: Cuscatlán (756.2 km 2) Subdivisions. Municipality. El Salvador is divided into 14 departments (Spanish: departamentos) for administrative purposes, subdivided into 44 municipalities ( municipios) and 262 districts. The country is a ...
Canal 10, previously known as Televisión de El Salvador ( TVES) (in Spanish: El Salvador Television) is El Salvador's public television service with the YSTVE signal. It was founded by the Government of El Salvador on November 4, 1964 with channels 8 and 10. By the year 1989, Channel 10 followed its transmissions when channel 8 separated from ...
El Salvador, [a] officially the Republic of El Salvador, [b] is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2023 was estimated to be 6.5 million.
Ernesto Castro. NI. Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 18 February 2021. Salvadorans elected all 84 deputies of the Legislative Assembly, all 262 mayors of municipal councils of the country's municipalities, and all 20 of El Salvador's deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN). [a]