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[40] [50] [51] El Salvador declared war on Japan on 8 December and then later Germany and Italy on 12 December. [50] The government arrested German, Italian, and Japanese nationals and seized their land. [52] El Salvador never provided soldiers to directly fight in the war but it did send workers to maintain the Panama Canal. [53]
The 1961 Salvadoran coup d'état was a successful countercoup in El Salvador led by Colonel Anibal Portillo against the short-lived Junta of Government that had taken power in 1960, replacing the reformist military junta with an ardent anti-Communist government named the Civic-Military Directory. By the end of that year, military governance had ...
El Salvador elects its head of state, the President of El Salvador, directly through a fixed-date general election whose winner is decided by absolute majority. If an absolute majority is not achieved by any candidate in the first round of a presidential election, then a run-off election is conducted 30 days later between the two candidates who obtained the most votes in the first round.
For decades, life choices in El Salvador were either leave or die. People are returning after a crackdown on crime, but it’s come at a cost. Critics denounce their government as a dictatorship.
Magaña was inaugurated as president of El Salvador on 2 May 1982, the first civilian president since Arturo Araujo in 1931. [58] [59] The assumption of Magaña ended the rule of the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador. [14] Duarte continued to serve in politics and became president in 1984 while Gutiérrez retired from military life ...
The 1931 coup established a military dictatorship that ruled El Salvador for five decades. [7] Martínez ruled El Salvador as president until 1944 when he resigned following the Strike of Fallen Arms, [19] but the military continued to rule the country through rigged elections until the 1979 coup d'état that began the Salvadoran Civil War. [20]
The landslide re-election of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele was cheered by supporters of his gang crackdown, but has worried opponents who fear the country is sliding into a de facto one-party ...
El Salvador’s government "made mistakes” in its war against the country’s gangs, but has never undermined the country’s democracy to consolidate power, according to the man likely to be ...