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Crime in El Salvador has been historically extremely high due to the presence of various gangs. As of 2011, there were an estimated 25 000 gang members at large in El Salvador; with another 43 500 in prison. [ 1] The best-known gangs, called maras in colloquial Salvadoran Spanish, are Mara Salvatrucha ( MS-13) and their rivals 18th Street ...
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.
The Terrorism Confinement Center ( Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly referred to as CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador and was opened by the Salvadoran government in January 2023.
San Salvador ( Spanish pronunciation: [san salβaˈðoɾ] ;) is the capital and the largest city [ 5 ] of El Salvador and its eponymous department. [ 6 ] It is however the country's largest agglomeration. It is the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. [ 7 ] The Municipality of San Salvador has 525,990 inhabitants ...
El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de El Salvador San Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez), (IATA: SAL, ICAO: MSLP), previously known as Comalapa International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional de Comalapa) and as Comalapa Air Base (Base Aérea de Comalapa) to the military, [3] is a joint-use civilian and military airport ...
The National Civil Police of El Salvador ( Spanish: Policía Nacional Civil de El Salvador ), also known as PNC, is the national civilian police of El Salvador. Although the National Civil Police is not part of the Armed Forces of El Salvador (Army, Navy, and Air Force), it constitutes along with them the "Civilian Force". [ 1]
The COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ). The virus was confirmed to have reached El Salvador on 18 March 2020. [ 4] As of 19 September 2021, El Salvador reported 102,024 cases, 3,114 deaths, and ...
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 2023 was estimated to be 6.5 million.