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The United States sanctions multiple Central American officials accused of corruption, including former Presidents of El Salvador Mauricio Funes and Salvador Sánchez Cerén.
2023-07-19

El Salvador declares a state of emergency after 62 people were murdered in the country yesterday, making it the most violent 24-hour period since the end of the civil war in 1992.
2022-03-27

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele says that the proposed constitutional reforms he sent for review will not include the legalization of abortion or same-sex marriage. El Salvador has one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the world.
2021-09-17

Human rights organizations file criminal complaints against 25 Salvadoran soldiers for the killings of four Dutch journalists during the country's civil war in 1982. The journalists worked for the Dutch broadcaster Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland.
2021-07-16

Father Bernardo Buil, a friar from Aragon, celebrates the first Mass in the New World at La Isabela in Puerto Plata on January 6, 1494. To commemorate this 525-year event Pope Francis appoints Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez of El Salvador as his representative for the anniversary Mass. Father Buil accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage.
2019-01-7

El Salvador declares a state of emergency in seven prisons and transfers 299 prisoners in a crackdown on gang violence.
2016-03-29

El Salvador's murder rate surges by 70% in 2015, an increase that may lead to the Central American nation edging out Honduras as the world's most murderous nation.
2015-12-29

President of the United States Barack Obama is announced to visit Brazil, Chile and El Salvador from March 19 to 23.
2011-02-18

At least 16 people are killed and dozens are injured in a fire at a juvenile jail in the town of Ilobasco in El Salvador.
2010-11-10

It was reported that Ingmar Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, was to go on trial Monday for Chandra Levy's 2001 killing.
2010-10-17