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Four police officers are killed in floods caused by Tropical Storm Chris in Tepetlán, Mexico.
2024-07-3

The death toll from the storms and heavy rains in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras increases to 30 people, including at least six children.
2024-06-22

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

El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to adopt the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal tender as well as the national currency as the Bitcoin Law comes into effect. However, a small but growing number of people opposed to the new law protested against it in the capital, San Salvador.
2021-09-7

Cuba recognizes cryptocurrency as legal tender, becoming the second nation to do so after El Salvador.
2021-08-27

A court in Madrid sentences former Salvadoran deputy minister for public security Inocente Orlando Montano Morales to 133 years in prison for the murders of six Jesuits and two others in San Salvador during the country's civil war in 1989.
2020-09-11

Evelyn Hernández is acquitted of murder after her newly-born child was found deceased in a toilet. The ruling is being held as a landmark case decision for women's rights in El Salvador, which has one of the strongest anti-abortion laws in Central America.
2019-08-19

El Salvador severs diplomatic relations with Taiwan, opting to instead establish ties with China.
2018-08-21

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

Police in El Salvador discover barrels containing US$9 million in suspected drug money.
2010-09-5