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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]
CISPES supports the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the progressive social movement in El Salvador. CISPES was founded in October 1980 by conventions in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. [ 1 ] in opposition to the U.S. aid (funding and political support) to the Salvadoran military and government during the Salvadoran civil ...
City population figures below are from the World Population Review from 2024. [1] Over 100,000 or a High Human Development Index, and a high urbanization. AMSS = San Salvador Metropolitan Area Acajutla – Pop. 22,763; Apopa – Pop. 112,158 (AMSS) Antiguo Cuscatlán – Pop. 33,767 (AMSS); [1] highest HDI in the country [citation needed]
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]
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. Bukele has used emergency powers to round ...
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. In 2004 the Church in El Salvador asked for a reinvestigation of the case. [6]
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.
Amnesty International, in a 2008 report that "Widespread human rights violations committed during the internal armed conflict (1980-1992) remained unpunished". [3] They also assert that the government is currently misusing anti-terrorism laws to detain and harass political opponents of the government.