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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 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]
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.
El Salvador, once synonymous with violence and waves of emigration, saw a dramatic drop in crime. For many citizens, this shift offered more than just safety — it offered much needed hope. The ...
Salvadorean Sandra Hernandez with a picture of her husband Jose Dimas Medrano, who was detained under the state of emergency and died of kidney failure while in prison, in El Rosario, El Salvador ...
In July 1979, the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle was overthrown in the Nicaraguan Revolution and the Sandinistas gained power in Nicaragua.The event caused many military officials in El Salvador to fear that Romero's government would likely soon fall to the left-wing guerrilla forces with Sandinista support, and several military officers planned a coup to prevent El Salvador from ...
Bukele, the 41-year-old who half-jokingly calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator,” is widely popular in El Salvador, and increasingly across Latin America, because of his massive ...
El Salvador elects its head of state, the President of El Salvador, directly through a fixed-date general election whose winner is decided by absolute majority. If an absolute majority is not achieved by any candidate in the first round of a presidential election, then a run-off pool election is conducted 30 days later between the two ...