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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 ...
Manuel Flores (Salvadoran politician) Juan Manuel de Jesús Flores Cornejo (born 15 October 1965), nicknamed " El Chino " ( Spanish for "The Chinese One"), is a Salvadoran politician. As a member of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), Flores served as the mayor of Quezaltepeque from 2003 to 2012 and then later as a deputy of ...
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.
Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara (born 1980 or 1981) is a Salvadoran accountant who briefly served as presidential designate and the acting president of El Salvador from 1 December 2023 to 1 June 2024.
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 ...
President of the Legislative Assembly after. Mario Ponce. PCN. 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 ...
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.
The history of El Salvador begins with several distinct groups of Mesoamerican people, especially the Pipil, the Lenca and the Maya. In the early 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. In 1821, El Salvador achieved independence from Spain as part of ...