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In the last decade or so, El Salvador has gone from among the most violent countries in the world to among Latin America’s safest. The country’s official homicide rate dropped from 106 per ...
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday. The announcement ...
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele registered as his party's candidate to seek re-election in the country's presidential vote next year, a decision already raising eyebrows Friday because the ...
The Salvadoran gang crackdown, referred to in El Salvador as the régimen de excepción ( Spanish for state of exception) [ 3] and the guerra contra las pandillas (Spanish for war against gangs ), [ 4] began in March 2022 in response to a crime spike between 25 and 27 March 2022, when 87 people were killed in El Salvador.
February 4, 2024 at 6:11 PM. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Salvadorans voted in presidential and legislative elections Sunday, with many expressing willingness to forego some elements of ...
Fiscal policy has been one of the biggest challenges for the Salvadoran government. In December 1999, net international reserves equaled US$1.8 billion. Having this hard currency buffer to work with, the Salvadoran government undertook a monetary integration plan beginning in January 2001 by which the U.S. dollar became legal tender alongside the Salvadoran colón, and all formal accounting ...
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced on Tuesday he will formally ask Congress to approve a leave of absence over the next few days to allow him to run for reelection ...
El Salvador–United States relations. According to the 2012 U.S. Global Leadership Report, 55% of Salvadorans approve of U.S. leadership, with 19% disapproving and 26% uncertain, the fourth-highest rating for any surveyed country in the Americas. [ 1] In 2013 and 2014, according to the Pew Research Center 's global attitudes survey 79% and 80% ...