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Guttfreund is the youngest of five siblings. He grew up in El Salvador, attending Escuela Americana - the American School of El Salvador - from which he graduated in 1979. He spent his younger years in Jerusalem, Israel, beginning his studies in sociology and social anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Andre R. Guttfreund (born November 6, 1946) [1] [2] is a Salvadoran film director, producer and filmmaker. He is better known for the production of the 1976 short film In the Region of Ice, for which he received an Oscar at the 1977 Academy Awards with Peter Werner for Best Live Action Short Film, [3] becoming the first and so far only Central American to receive an Oscar.
e. Jews have been present in El Salvador since the early 19th century, starting with Sephardic Jews and continuing with the arrival of refugees from Europe during World War II. [1] El Salvador has the second largest community in Central America, the majority established in San Salvador, which is the second city with the most Jews in Central ...
The history of El Salvador begins with several distinct groups of Mesoamerican people, especially the Pipil, the Lenca and the Maya. In the early 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. In 1821, El Salvador achieved independence from Spain as part of ...
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.
El Salvador, once known as the "murder capital of the world," underwent a significant transformation after electing Nayib Bukele as president, allowing him to enact deep crime reforms.
t. e. 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 ...
The Chapultepec Peace Accords. For Maurice Lemoine, French intellectual “at the negotiating table, puts an end to a sixty-year-old military hegemony and will allow a deep reform of the State based on a series of unprecedented measures: respect for universal suffrage; reform of the judiciary; constitutional reform; separation of Defense and Public Security, downsizing of the army, creation of ...