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The Battle of Ilopango Airport was a military engagement fought at the Ilopango International Airport in El Salvador in late January 1982. The battle was a part of the Salvadoran Civil War. It was fought between soldiers of the Salvadoran Air Force and guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front.
El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation's solution to rampant gang violence, but human rights groups have slammed its alleged inhumane treatment of its ...
El Salvador says it can house dangerous criminals, including US citizens, in its mega-jail. ... El Salvador was the second stop on Secretary of State Rubio's first overseas tour as the US top ...
This article shows a list of cities in El Salvador. Cities. City population figures below are from the World Population Review from 2024. [1]
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.
A second group of 2,000 detainees were moved to the Terrorist Confinement Centre (CECOT) on March 15, 2023, in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Presidencia El Salvador via Getty Images
The Military Youth of El Salvador did not approve of the result of the election and attempted to revert the decision of the Legislative Assembly. [2] On the morning of 25 March, Colonel Benjamin Mejía declared that the Military Youth was in rebellion, including the Artillery Regiment and the barracks of San Carlos and El Zapote, and announced the establishment of the Revolutionary Junta.
As El Salvador's president tries to silence free press, journalist brothers expose his ties to street gangs. Kate Linthicum. June 9, 2022 at 5:00 AM. ... "In El Salvador, there really wasn't a ...