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At least twelve people are killed and dozens more are injured in a crowd crush at the Estadio Cuscatlán football stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador.
2023-05-20

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

As the homicide rate in El Salvador declines, the country records its first day in the last two years without a homicide.
2017-01-11

The government of El Salvador unveils and deploys a new heavily armed special forces unit to fight criminal gangs in rural areas of the country. Officials say it will target gang leaders who left the cities because of a government crackdown.
2016-04-21

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

A United States immigration appeals panel approves the deportation of former El Salvador Defence Minister Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova to potentially face human rights abuses charges in his homeland.
2015-03-11

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

Concerns are held about a cult-like group of Salvadoran migrants to the United States in Palmdale, California, who have gone missing after leaving a note that they were going to meet Jesus. They are later found alive in a park.
2010-09-19