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However, in contrast to Mexico, El Salvador is a small country, largely dependent on the Lempa River as a primary water source. Any large-scale operations, particularly in the gold-rich north of ...
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador. 31 January: The Terrorism Confinement Center was open to hold inmates. [1] 6 June: The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador votes to reduce the number of legislative seats from 84 to 60 ahead of the 2024 general election. [2]
The gang crackdown is officially known in El Salvador as the "State of Exception" (Spanish: régimen de excepción). [13] Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his government have described the crackdown itself as a "war" (guerra) [14] and also refer to it as the "War Against the Gangs" (guerra contra las pandillas).
The protest's organizers stated that they were protesting against the country's gang crackdown, which had up to that point led to the arrests of over 67,000 people, and against the re-election campaign of President Nayib Bukele; re-election is prohibited by the constitution of El Salvador. [2] On 20 April 2023, Rodrigo Cerritos, a member of the ...
The United States Department of State released a report documenting alleged human rights violations in El Salvador from 2022. This report alleges that the state of exception in El Salvador has put more pressure on the judicial system than it can handle, and as a result has created conditions not conducive to due process.
The 46-year-old had been convicted of sexual assault in Virginia in 2019, served a year's prison time and was deported to El Salvador by ICE in 2023. He had returned illegally, ICE said.
In 2023, Mexico was the second largest foreign direct investor in El Salvador with US$94 million invested in the country. [22] Several Mexican multinational companies such as América Móvil , Cemex , Grupo Bimbo , Gruma , Sigma Alimentos (among others) operate in El Salvador.
Criminal gangs have been a major problem in El Salvador since the conclusion of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1992. The country's most prominent gangs include Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18), Mao Mao, Miranda Loca, and La Maquina, among others. [3]