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8 September – Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, the head of the National Civil Police is killed along with a fraud suspect and seven others in a helicopter crash near Pasaquina. [12] 27 September – The US Peace Corps is deployed to El Salvador for the first time since being pulled out in 2016 due to gang violence. [13]
1 January — New Year's Day [4] 10 May – Mother's Day [4] 17 June – Father's Day [4] 4–6 August — August Festivals, including Feast of San Salvador [4] 15 September – Independence Day, anniversary of the Act of Independence of Central America. [4] 2 November – Day of the Dead [4]
Monumento a la Constitución located in San Salvador, erected in 1992 to symbolize peace. With the release of From Madness to Hope in March 1993, human rights advocates in El Salvador and the United States accepted and applauded the commission for its analysis of the atrocities, and for its recommendations.
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele released the father of a Salvadoran soccer player from prison after the athlete published a plea for his release on social media, authorities confirmed on ...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s lawmakers have granted a request by President Nayib Bukele for the 24th consecutive one-month extension of an anti-gang emergency decree. The vote by congress late Friday means that by March 27, the country will have spent a full two years under the decree, which suspends some rights.
The most well-known figure in the El Salvadoran church's history is Archbishop of San Salvador Óscar Romero. On March 24, 1980, during the civil war in El Salvador he was assassinated while saying Mass because of his positions regarding the government and demands to the end of the violence in the nation.
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.
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador's legislature overturned a seven-year-old ban on metals mining on Monday, a move that President Nayib Bukele had pushed for to boost economic growth, but that ...