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The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly referred to as CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador and was opened by the Salvadoran government in January 2023.
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 Salvadoran gang crackdown, known in El Salvador as the State of Exception (Spanish: régimen de excepción) or the War Against the Gangs (guerra contra las pandillas), began on 27 March 2022 in response to a series of homicides committed by criminal gangs between 25 and 27 March 2022 which killed 87 people.
Christian Gregorio Poveda Ruiz (January 12, 1957 [1] – September 2, 2009), known as Christian Poveda, was a Hispanic-French photojournalist and film director. [2] He covered the world's conflict zones for more than 30 years. [3] Poveda's documentary film La Vida Loca (2008) is about two rival gangs in El Salvador.
July 30, 1839: The Federal District of San Salvador is dissolved, and San Salvador department is reconstituted, combining the former federal district with Opico district of Cuscatlan. [3] March 15, 1847: La Paz department is abolished and reincorporated into San Vicente. [3] February 21, 1852: La Paz department is restored. [3]
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 2024 was estimated to be 6 million according to a ...
The group was started in the wake of an earlier band Los Gatos Salvajes, who had shared two the same members, in 1967.They recorded their debut single "La balsa" / "Ayer nomás", which turned into an unpredicted large scale hit in the Argentine winter of 67, selling over 200,000 copies, leading to their full-length debut later that year.
This film received favorable reviews from film critics. Based on 51 reviews collected by review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, the film scored a 73% "Fresh" approval rating, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The site's critical consensus is, "Innocent Voices is a passionately told dramatization of an ugly issue of war -- its impact on children."