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El Salvador, [a] officially the Republic of El Salvador, [b] is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2024 was estimated to be 6 million according to a ...
(in Spanish) Newspapers from El Salvador; Latin American Network Information Center. "El Salvador: News". USA: University of Texas at Austin. "El Salvador". Provisional Census of Current Latin American Newspaper Holdings in UK Libraries. UK: Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources. 14 April 2011. "El Salvador".
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]
December 15 – The U.S. and El Salvador reach an agreement to return asylum-seekers who reach the southern border of the United States back to El Salvador, where they can seek government protection. Similar agreements have been reached with Honduras and Guatemala, but with such little success that critics refer to the program as “deportation ...
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.
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras , on the northwest by Guatemala , and on the south by the Pacific Ocean .
Republic of Colombia and the Republic of El Salvador have maintained a friendly relationship since the 19th century. Between the two countries there are organizations such as the Colombia-El Salvador Joint Drug Commission, the Joint Commission for Technical, Scientific, Educational, Cultural and Sports Cooperation and the Bilateral Consultation and Coordination Mechanism.
In June 2000, Mexico and El Salvador (along with Guatemala and Honduras) signed a free trade agreement which took effect in 2001. Since then, both Costa Rica and Nicaragua have joined the joint free trade agreement. [20] In 2023, total trade between El Salvador and Mexico amounted to US$1.4 billion. [21]