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Death squad victims in San Salvador, (c. 1981)Death squads in El Salvador (Spanish: escuadrones de la muerte) were far-right paramilitary groups acting in opposition to Marxist–Leninist guerrilla forces, most notably of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), and their allies among the civilian population before, during, and after the Salvadoran Civil War.
La Matanza: 22 January 1932 – 11 July 1932 Western El Salvador: 10,000 [4] to 40,000 Led to decline of native Pipil (Nahuat) language and lack of linguistic self-identification due to induced climate of fear Student massacre of 1975: 30 July 1975 National Hospital Rosales, San Salvador: unknown (over 100) [5] Cathedral Slope massacre: 8 May 1979
The first was in Paraíso de Osorio, La Paz, where police found the gang member's corpse in a creek with his hands tied behind his back, legs tied together, gagged, and a bullet in his head. Next to the body was a sign which read "La Sombra Negra ha llegado a Paraíso de Osorio. Ratas de la MS llegó su fin."
(in Spanish) Newspapers from El Salvador; Latin American Network Information Center. "El Salvador: News". USA: University of Texas at Austin. "El Salvador". Provisional Census of Current Latin American Newspaper Holdings in UK Libraries. UK: Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources. 14 April 2011. "El Salvador".
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in El Salvador.It was abolished in 1983 by Article 27 of the constitution, with an exception allowed for crimes committed under military law during a state of international war. [1]
Calling code: +503 [1]; International call prefix: 00 [5]; Fixed lines: 1.1 million lines in use, 74th in the world (2012). [1]Mobile cellular: 8.7 million lines, 88th in the world (2012); [1] in 2007 the number of mobile phones exceeded the country's population giving the country a 1.06 per capita cellphone penetration rate.
Maybe we all watched a little too much This Is Us and are still mourning the loss of Jack Pearson, or maybe a kitchen mishap as a child has left us wary of slow cookers. Whatever the case may be ...
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador. 27 March – El Salvador declares a state of emergency after 62 people were murdered in the country yesterday, making it the most violent 24-hour period since the end of the civil war in 1992. [1] 16 April – President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele announces that 12,169 gang members have been ...