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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 ...
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador's election authority on Monday announced that President Nayib Bukele's ruling New Ideas party would control a super majority in the next legislature with 54 out ...
El Salvador's traditional parties from the left and right that created the vacuum that Bukele first filled in 2019 remain in shambles. ... Bukele said at a news conference that it was important to ...
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 ...
28 October – A joint military-police operation involving 2,500 security personnel is launched to find suspected gang members in the 10 de Octubre neighborhood of San Salvador. [ 14 ] 30 October – The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador approves a proposal to send soldiers to Haiti as part of the United Nations Multinational Security Support ...
Protests against re-election occurred in San Salvador, El Salvador on 1 May 2023 and 15 September 2023. In two protest marches, protesters marched from the Cuscatlán Park and the Rosales Hospital to the Gerardo Barrios Plaza in protest of the Salvadoran gang crackdown and President Nayib Bukele's re-election campaign.
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).
El Salvador's Congress granted President Nayib Bukele leave for six months Thursday to allow him to campaign for reelection despite a constitutional prohibition and approved the president's ...