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The first enslaved person arrived in El Salvador to work in the haciendas, in cocoa and indigo mills, and in the gold mines. In San Salvador and San Miguel , many people enslaved African people, some of whom were sent to wash gold in Honduran rivers, which was a major industry in the sixteenth century.
The gang crackdown is officially known in El Salvador as the "State of Exception" (Spanish: régimen de excepción). [14] Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his government have described the crackdown itself as a "war" (guerra) [15] and also refer to it as the "War Against the Gangs" (guerra contra las pandillas).
This article shows a list of cities in El Salvador. Cities. City population figures below are from the World Population Review from 2024. [1]
(in Spanish) Newspapers from El Salvador; Latin American Network Information Center. "El Salvador: News". USA: University of Texas at Austin. "El Salvador". Provisional Census of Current Latin American Newspaper Holdings in UK Libraries. UK: Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources. 14 April 2011. "El Salvador".
El Salvador's gang violence has reached a very concerning place in terms of its country's safety. The MS-13 and Barrio 18 are involved in extortion, human trafficking, narco-activities, and violence. [7] MS-13 and Barrio 18 are powerful gangs that have great control over citizens in El Salvador causing people to feel fear and displacement. The ...
Location of El Salvador. El Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America.El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador.As of 2015, the country had a population of approximately 6.83 million, consisting largely of Mestizos of European and Indigenous American descent.
July 30, 1839: The Federal District of San Salvador is dissolved, and San Salvador department is reconstituted, combining the former federal district with Opico district of Cuscatlan. [3] March 15, 1847: La Paz department is abolished and reincorporated into San Vicente. [3] February 21, 1852: La Paz department is restored. [3]
In February 2021, El Salvador's legislative election was an important breakthrough. The new party, founded by President Nayib Bukele, Nuevas Ideas, won around two-thirds of votes with its allies (GANA-New Ideas). His party won supermajority 56 seats in the 84-seat parliament.