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This was the first victory of a leftist political party in El Salvador's history. [19] Funes took over as president on June 1, 2009, together with Salvador Sánchez Cerén as vice president. In 2014, Cerén took office as president, after winning the election as the candidate of the left-wing FMLN.
The Salvadoran Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, [28] and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guerilla groups backed by the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union. [4]
Santa Ana, El Salvador's second largest city, [33] was declared to be under a state of siege on 11 January after its main road connection to San Salvador was severed by the FMLN. The Cavalry Regiment under Major Óscar Campos Anaya was deployed from La Libertad to eastern San Salvador to defend the capital from a guerrilla assault that numbered ...
On July 19, 1975, while television audiences from around the world watched the finale of the Miss Universe pageant in El Salvador, [4] [2] students in Santa Ana and San Salvador protested the government expenditure of 1 million colones ($114,393.10 USD in 2023) on the beauty contest during a context of great social inequality.
During the civil war in El Salvador (1980–1992), the municipality of Santa Ana was also affected by armed conflict, which led to the emigration of many residents of the city. After the war, Santa Ana and all of El Salvador began to address the problem of rising crime rates, [ 14 ] mostly due to the existence of "maras" or gangs, mainly ...
Duarte returned to El Salvador on March 3, 1980 and joined the Junta, becoming El Salvador's foreign minister. Just weeks after joining the government, Duarte came to the attention of the U.S. public as spokesperson for the Junta following the assassination of Archbishop Romero on 24 March 1980. As an official source, he promoted a "blame on ...
L.A.-born gangs ruled El Salvador. The gangs that have long dominated life in El Salvador formed in Los Angeles. Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, were transplanted to El Salvador in the ...
Cutumay Camones was a band from El Salvador, formed in 1982. Its stated objective was to recover Salvadorean cultural roots and to provide popular music for the national liberation movement . In May 1982, Cutumay Camones was formed by a directive from the People's Revolutionary Army of El Salvador , a part of the FMLN , as cultural ambassadors ...