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e. 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.
Comadres ( CoMadres) is the committee of mothers and relatives of prisoners, the disappeared and the politically assassinated of El Salvador .The offices of the committee were subject to police raids by the government, and the members were allegedly subject to systematic rape in order to destroy the organization. [9]
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.
In February 2021, El Salvador's legislative election was an important breakthrough. The new party, founded by President Nayib Bukele, Nuevas Ideas, won around two-thirds of votes with its allies (GANA-New Ideas). His party won supermajority 56 seats in the 84-seat parliament.
Salvadorans ( Spanish: Salvadoreños ), also known as Salvadorians, are citizens of El Salvador, a country in Central America. Most Salvadorans live in El Salvador, although there is also a significant Salvadoran diaspora, particularly in the United States, with smaller communities in other countries around the world.
Cannabis in El Salvador. The possession and use of cannabis is illegal in El Salvador for both recreational and medical purposes. [1] The country is a signatory of the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, and has criminalized the production and distribution of the drug. [2]
Canal 10, previously known as Televisión de El Salvador ( TVES) (in Spanish: El Salvador Television) is El Salvador's public television service with the YSTVE signal. It was founded by the Government of El Salvador on November 4, 1964 with channels 8 and 10. By the year 1989, Channel 10 followed its transmissions when channel 8 separated from ...