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The blockade of Soyapango was a Salvadoran government operation to arrest criminal gang members of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street gang in the city of Soyapango.The operation began on 3 December 2022 when Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced that 10,000 members of the country's security forces surrounded the city.
The Minister of National Defense of El Salvador (Spanish: Ministro de Defensa Nacional de El Salvador) is a Salvadoran cabinet minister who serves as the head of the Ministry of National Defense of El Salvador. The position of Minister of National Defense is typically held by an officer of the Armed Forces of El Salvador.
Logo of the ministry. The Ministry of Governance and Territorial Development (Spanish: Ministerio de Gobernación y Desarrollo Territorial) of El Salvador is a state institution whose mission is to "guarantee governance and provide services for the benefit of the population through preventive actions and participatory organization, integrating institutional efforts to improve the quality of ...
Pablo Salvador Anliker Infante: 1 June 2019 7 April 2021 [3] Minister of Education: Carla Evelyn Hananía de Varela: 1 June 2019 22 February 2022 [3] Minister of Agriculture and Livestock: David Josué Martínez Panameño: 7 April 2021 9 March 2022 [10] Minister of Agriculture and Livestock: Enrique José Arturo Parada Rivas: 9 March 2022 14 ...
1833-1834: A short lived Department of Tejutla was established from the districts of Metapan and Tejutla in San Salvador. [2] January 22, 1835: The Federal District of San Salvador is separated both from San Salvador department and from the State of Salvador. The remainder of San Salvador department is renamed to Cuscatlan, and Metapan district ...
[10] [11] In January 2024, after the Salvadoran government announced that it had recorded 153 homicides in 2023 for a rate of 2.4 homicides per 100,000 people, Villatoro praised the gang crackdown, stating that it was a "courageous decision to confront the criminal structures" and claimed that El Salvador was the second safest country in the ...
In 2014 and 2015, the gangs offered to begin negotiations to restore the truce, but Funes' successor, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, refused to begin another truce. [26] [27] [28] According to an opinion poll conducted by the Technological University of El Salvador in August 2013, 47 percent of respondents believed the truce benefited the gangs ...
The National Civil Police of El Salvador (Spanish: Policía Nacional Civil de El Salvador), also known as PNC, is the national civilian police of El Salvador.Although the National Civil Police is not part of the Armed Forces of El Salvador (Army, Navy, and Air Force), it constitutes along with them the "Civilian Force". [1]