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José Napoleón Duarte. José Napoleón Duarte Fuentes (23 November 1925 – 23 February 1990) was a Salvadoran politician who served as President of El Salvador from 1 June 1984 to 1 June 1989. He was mayor of San Salvador before running for president in 1972. He lost, but the election is widely viewed as fraudulent. [1]
The president of El Salvador ( Spanish: presidente de El Salvador ), officially titled President of the Republic of El Salvador ( Spanish: Presidente de la República de El Salvador ), is the head of state and head of government of El Salvador. The president is also, by constitutional law, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of El Salvador.
Politics of El Salvador. Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 25 March 1984, with a second round on 6 May. [ 1] A new president was elected, together with a vice-president, for a five-year term. The result was a victory for José Napoleón Duarte of the Christian Democratic Party . The elections were held under military rule ...
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 President Nayib Bukele has registered to run for reelection next year, his party announced Monday, despite objections from legal experts and opposition figures who say the country’s ...
The brothers, two of El Salvador's most celebrated journalists, had produced a damning report exposing President Nayib Bukele's ties to the street gangs that have long terrorized Central America.
Magaña was inaugurated as president of El Salvador on 2 May 1982, the first civilian president since Arturo Araujo in 1931. [58] [59] The assumption of Magaña ended the rule of the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador. [14] Duarte continued to serve in politics and became president in 1984 while Gutiérrez retired from military life ...
El Salvador’s murder rate has dropped from 1,147 cases as its peak in 2021 to only 495 cases in 2022, according to InsightCrime.org, a think tank specializing in crime in the Americas.