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Luis Ramírez Zapata, a retired Salvadoran footballer, Nicknamed El Pelé, he spent nearly 20 years playing for Salvadoran club Águila. Luis Guevara Mora , a Salvadoran former goalkeeper, Nicknamed el Negro , became a member of the El Salvador national team and represented his country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup .
Afro-Salvadorans, called Pardo and sometimes Afro-Mestizos in the colonial period, are the descendants of the African population that were enslaved and shipped to El Salvador to work in mines in specific regions of El Salvador. They have mixed into and were naturally bred out by the general Mestizo population, which is a combination of a ...
Although El Salvador is the only Central American country with no official black percentage, El Salvador has had black African slavery in its history during the colonial era, over time they mixed with both Amerindians and Europeans causing their offspring to join into the general Mestizo population. [53] But Afro-Salvadoran heritage commonly do ...
Salvadorans (Spanish: Salvadoreños), also known as Salvadorians, are citizens of El Salvador, a country in Central America.Most Salvadorans live in El Salvador, although there is also a significant Salvadoran diaspora, particularly in the United States, with smaller communities in other countries around the world.
A Black man named Esteban el Negro (Steven the Black), a North African Moor from Spain, searched for the fabled city of Cíbola with Cabeza de Vaca. Veracruz, Campeche, Pánuco and Acapulco were the main ports for the entrance of African slaves. In the past, offspring of Black African/Amerindian mixtures were called jarocho (wild pig), chino or ...
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal of El Salvador, the entity in charge of the elections, had an estimate for the Fresno consulate of about 800 people who could vote, and they estimated that half ...
El Salvador's evangelical churches rehabilitated ex-gang members. The country's crackdown on L.A.-born gangs like MS-13 emptied programs and filled prisons.
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 2024 was estimated to be 6 million according to a ...