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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 2023 was estimated to be 6.5 million.
Exports in 1999 grew 1.9% while imports grew 3%, narrowing El Salvador's trade deficit. As in the previous year, the large trade deficit was offset by foreign aid and family remittances. Remittances are increasing at an annual rate of 6.5%, and an estimated $1.35 billion will enter the national economy during 1999.
Smallest: Cabañas (164,945) Areas. Largest: Usulután (2,130.4 km 2) Smallest: Cuscatlán (756.2 km 2) Subdivisions. Municipality. El Salvador is divided into 14 departments (Spanish: departamentos) for administrative purposes, subdivided into 44 municipalities (municipios) and 262 districts. The country is a unitary state.
The Attorney General of El Salvador, officially the Attorney General of the Republic ( Spanish: Fiscalía General de la República; abbreviated FGR ), is a permanent and independent office under the Public Ministry which possesses legal and administrative autonomy. [ 1]
Born. 1980 or 1981 (age 42–43) El Salvador. Political party. Nuevas Ideas. Occupation. Accountant. Politician. Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara (born 1980 or 1981) is a Salvadoran accountant who is a former presidential designate and President of El Salvador from 1 December 2023 to 1 June 2024.
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.
Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez was born on 24 July 1981 in San Salvador. [ 3 ] His father was Armando Bukele Kattán, a businessman and industrial chemist of Palestinian origin, [ 4 ][ 5 ] and his mother is Olga Marina Ortez. Bukele's father died in 2015. [ 6 ] Bukele was the couple's first child.
On 6 September 2014, former President Francisco Flores Pérez (1999–2004) was arrested on corruption charges for allegedly misappropriating US$15 million during his presidency. [2] In December 2015, he was charged with embezzlement and illicit enrichment and was ordered to stand trial, but he died in January 2016 before his trial started. [3]