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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]
The Truth Commission for El Salvador (Spanish: Comisión de la Verdad para El Salvador) was a restorative justice [1] truth commission approved by the United Nations to investigate the grave wrongdoings that occurred throughout the country's twelve year civil war.
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]
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 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.
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (15 August 1917 – 24 March 1980) was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador.He served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the Titular Bishop of Tambeae, as Bishop of Santiago de María, and finally as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador.
From March 2012 to May 2014, the Salvadoran government, the Catholic Church, and the country's two largest criminal gangs — Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18) — came to a truce, known in El Salvador simply as the Gang Truce (Spanish: tregua entre pandillas), [1] to lower the country's rate of homicides and extortions in exchange for improved prison conditions and ...
The Monument to the Reconciliation (Spanish: Monumento a la Reconciliación) was a monument which existed in El Salvador from 2017 until its demolition in 2024.The monument, which was designed by sculptor Napoleón Alberto Escoto, commemorated the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords which ended the Salvadoran Civil War.