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  2. History of El Salvador - Wikipedia

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    Before the Spanish conquest, the area that is known as El Salvador was composed of three indigenous states and several principalities.In central El Salvador were the indigenous inhabitants, the Pipils, or the Pipiles, a tribe of nomadic Nahua people that were settled there for a long time.

  3. El Salvador - Wikipedia

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    El Salvador declared its independence from the Federal Republic of Central America on 30 January 1841. [50] El Salvador joined Honduras and Nicaragua in 1896 to form the Greater Republic of Central America, which dissolved in 1898. Woman and girl in El Salvador making bread, 1910. After the mid-19th century, the economy was based on coffee growing.

  4. List of Salvadoran coups d'état - Wikipedia

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    May 1944 Salvadoran coup d'état – Civilians protested in the streets of San Salvador against Maximiliano Hernández Martínez's government and forced him to resign on 9 May 1944. [ 8 ] [ 7 ] October 1944 Salvadoran coup d'état – Provisional President Andrés Ignacio Menéndez was overthrown by General Osmín Aguirre y Salinas on 21 ...

  5. El Salvador's long-dominant parties in crisis after drubbing

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    Saúl Meléndez, a former fighter during El Salvador’s civil war, was for years a loyal member of the leftist political party formed by his fellow ex-guerrillas after the war. The Farabundo ...

  6. El Salvador's Bukele wins supermajority in Congress after ...

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    El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday. The announcement ...

  7. Crime in El Salvador - Wikipedia

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    [5] These gangs were created in the streets of Los Angeles by the refugees children [5] who were trying to escape the war that was happening in El Salvador. [6] After the Civil War in El Salvador, many people left for a better life away from war and fled to the United States, seeking asylum and Temporary Protected Status (TPS). This was all ...

  8. El Salvador lawmakers overturn mining ban in win for president

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    El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban all forms of metals mining in 2017. Bukele, who took office in 2019, has called the ban absurd. El Salvador lawmakers overturn mining ban ...

  9. Spanish conquest of El Salvador - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish conquest of El Salvador was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores against the Late Postclassic Mesoamerican polities in the territory that is now incorporated into the modern Central American country of El Salvador. El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America, and is dominated by two mountain ranges ...