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The Jesuits in El Salvador, led by José María Tojeira, UCA's former rector, continued to work with the UCA's Institute of Human Rights, founded by Segundo Montes, to use the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, to bypass the Salvadoran Amnesty Law of 1993 and expose the role of higher military officers in the murders.
Memorial depicting Oscar Romero and the 1980 murders of U.S. missionaries in El Salvador.. On December 2, 1980, four Catholic missionaries from the United States working in El Salvador were raped and murdered by five members of the El Salvador National Guard (Daniel Canales Ramírez, Carlos Joaquín Contreras Palacios, Francisco Orlando Contreras Recinos, José Roberto Moreno Canjura, and Luis ...
Crime in El Salvador has been historically extremely high due to the presence of various gangs. As of 2011, there were an estimated 25 000 gang members at large in El Salvador; with another 43 500 in prison. [1] The best-known gangs, called maras in colloquial Salvadoran Spanish, are Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and their rivals 18th Street; maras ...
Salvadoran Army. Rank. Brigadier General. Battles/wars. 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état. Salvadoran Civil War. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova (29 November 1937 – 21 December 2023) was the head of the Salvadoran national guard between the years 1979 and 1983 and later served as the nation's Minister of Defense between 1983 and 1989. [2]
Muyshondt was personally invited by Bukele to attend his inauguration as president of El Salvador on 1 June 2019. [14] Muyshondt became Bukele's national security advisor. [6] [15] [16] In May 2021, Muyshondt, Bukele's brothers Yusef and Ibrajim, and other Salvadoran officials attended an online meeting to discuss potentially making cryptocurrency legal tender in El Salvador; the meeting came ...
The Attorney General of El Salvador, officially the Attorney General of the Republic ( Spanish: Fiscalía General de la República; abbreviated FGR ), is a permanent and independent office under the Public Ministry which possesses legal and administrative autonomy. [ 1]
Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez was born on 24 July 1981 in San Salvador. [ 3 ] His father was Armando Bukele Kattán, a businessman and industrial chemist of Palestinian origin, [ 4 ][ 5 ] and his mother is Olga Marina Ortez. Bukele's father died in 2015. [ 6 ] Bukele was the couple's first child.
Zacatecoluca. Zacatecoluca's historic center from the air. Zacatecoluca (Spanish pronunciation: [sakatekoˈluka]) is the capital municipality of the La Paz Department of El Salvador. Located in Southern El Salvador, in the Rio Lempa valley, at the foot of San Vicente (Chinchotepec) Volcano. A commercial center for the surrounding agricultural ...