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Return to El Salvador is a 2010 documentary film directed by Philadelphia filmmaker Jamie Moffett and narrated by Martin Sheen. It chronicles the rebuilding of El Salvador in the years after the Salvadoran Civil War , and explores the impact a lasting legacy of violence and unrest has had on those who survived, fled, and are now seeking to return.
On March 27, 2022, the government of El Salvador, chaired by Nayib Bukele since June 1, 2019, declared a state of national emergency after recording a significant increase in homicides. Between March 25 and 27, 87 murders were reported, which represented the highest number of violent deaths in a weekend since the Salvadoran civil war ended in 1992.
During the 1977 El Salvadoran presidential election, public unrest is at an all-time high over fears of election fraud.In the midst of a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla insurgency by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, the anti-communist military dictatorship uses death squads to abduct, torture and "disappear" anyone who speaks about their terrible human rights record.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Monday as he continues a trip aimed at getting Latin American countries to do more to stem migration to ...
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]
An Afghan soldier who fled the Taliban and traveled through nearly a dozen countries before being arrested at the Texas-Mexico border and detained for months has been granted asylum, allowing him ...