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Martínez eventually denounced El Salvador's membership of the treaty on 26 December 1932. [35] [36] [37] Martínez helped El Salvador's financial situation improve during his presidency. On 23 February 1932, Martínez suspended payment on foreign debt, and again on 1 January 1938, but the debt was eventually paid off in 1938. [38]
The Revolutionary Government Junta (Spanish: Junta Revolucionaria de Gobierno, JRG) was the name of three consecutive joint civilian-military dictatorships that ruled El Salvador between 15 October 1979 and 2 May 1982.
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]
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.
Most of El Salvador's COVID-19 vaccines were donated by the United States and China. [165] [166] On 13 May 2021, Bukele donated 34,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to seven towns in Honduras after pleas from their mayors for vaccine doses. [167] El Salvador had received 1.9 million doses at the time, and Honduras had only received 59,000. [168]
The history of El Salvador begins with several distinct groups of Mesoamerican people, especially the Pipil, the Lenca and the Maya. In the early 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City .
When Jocelyn Zelaya was caught in a hail of gunfire on the streets of San Salvador in 2017, the young mother was simply “in the wrong place, at the wrong time,” says her aunt Jackelyne.
The Salvadoran Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, [28] and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guerilla groups backed by the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union. [4]