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In the last decade or so, El Salvador has gone from among the most violent countries in the world to among Latin America’s safest. The country’s official homicide rate dropped from 106 per ...
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.
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 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 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 ...
Meanwhile, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is pushing to go in the opposite direction. In 2017, his predecessor implemented a total mining ban to protect the country's water resources.
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. [6] 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 ...
Country HDI 2022 data (2023-2024 report) rankings; Medium human development 1 Haiti: 0.552 2 Honduras: 0.624 3 Guatemala: 0.629 4 Nicaragua: 0.669 5 El Salvador: 0.674 6 Suriname: 0.690 7 Bolivia: 0.698 8 Venezuela: 0.699 High human development 9 Belize: 0.700 10 Jamaica: 0.706