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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announces the beginning of a blockade of four municipalities in northern El Salvador, mobilizing 5,000 soldiers and 1,000 police officers to arrest suspected gang members.
2024-03-24

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is granted a leave of absence prior to the 2024 general election and is succeeded by his private secretary Claudia Rodríguez de Guevara as acting president.
2023-11-30

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announces that the government will construct a prison to hold white-collar criminals. He also announces that the country's security forces had raided the properties of former president Alfredo Cristiani.
2023-06-1

El Salvador opens a trial against former president Mauricio Funes for initiating a truce with street gangs during his presidency. Funes, who is currently living in Nicaragua, will not attend the trial.
2023-04-26

Incumbent President Nayib Bukele announces that he will run for re-election in 2024, one year after the Supreme Court ruled that he was eligible to do so despite a constitutional ban on presidential re-election.
2022-09-16

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele announces that 12,169 gang members have been arrested since the state of emergency began on March 27.
2022-04-16

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

El Salvador reports its first case of the Lineage B.1.617 Delta variant, which was originally detected in India.
2021-07-31

El Salvador becomes the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender, after the Legislative Assembly votes 62–22 to pass a bill submitted by President Nayib Bukele classifying the cryptocurrency as such.
2021-06-9

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announces at a Bitcoin conference in Florida that his country will adopt the cryptocurrency as legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar, making El Salvador the first country to do so. He plans to introduce the relevant legislation to the Legislative Assembly next week.
2021-06-5