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Events in the year 2024 in El Salvador .

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nayib Bukele</span> President of El Salvador since 2019

Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who, since 1 June 2019, has been the 81st president of El Salvador. As a member of the Nuevas Ideas political party, Bukele is the first Salvadoran president since 1989 who was not elected as a candidate of one of the country's two major political parties: the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) or the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), of which Bukele had previously been a member.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2019 Salvadoran presidential election</span>

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 3 February 2019, with Salvadorans electing the president and vice president for a five-year term from 2019 to 2024.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Félix Ulloa</span> Vice President of El Salvador since 2019

Félix Augusto Antonio Ulloa Garay is a Salvadoran politician, speaker, professor, and lawyer who has been serving as the Vice President of El Salvador since 1 June 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nuevas Ideas</span> Political party in El Salvador

Nuevas Ideas is the ruling political party of El Salvador. The party was founded on 25 October 2017 by Nayib Bukele, the then-mayor of San Salvador, and was registered by the Supreme Electoral Court on 21 August 2018. The party's current president is Xavier Zablah Bukele, a cousin of Bukele who has served since March 2020.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2020 Salvadoran political crisis</span> Political crisis in El Salvador

The 2020 Salvadoran political crisis, commonly referred to in El Salvador as the numeronym 9F or El Bukelazo, was an incident in El Salvador on 9 February 2020. During the political crisis, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele sent 40 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army into the Legislative Assembly building in an effort to coerce politicians to approve a loan request of 109 million dollars from the United States for Bukele's security plan for the country.

Events in the year 2020 in El Salvador.

Events in the year 2021 in El Salvador.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ernesto Castro</span> Salvadoran politician and president of the Legislative Assembly (2021–present)

Ernesto Alfredo Castro Aldana is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who currently serves as the president of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. Castro previously served as a secretary and private advisor to Nayib Bukele from 2012 to 2020 when he was elected as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from San Salvador in the 2021 legislative election.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2024 Salvadoran general election</span>

General elections were held in El Salvador in February and March 2024. In the first round on 4 February, voters elected the president, vice president, and all 60 deputies of the Legislative Assembly. In the second round on 3 March, voters elected mayors and municipal councils for all 44 of the country's municipalities and all 20 of El Salvador's deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Salvadoran gang crackdown</span> Ongoing large-scale arrests of alleged gang members in El Salvador

The Salvadoran gang crackdown, known in El Salvador as the State of Exception or the War Against the Gangs, began on 27 March 2022 in response to a series of homicides committed by criminal gangs between 25 and 27 March 2022 which killed 87 people. After the killings, the Salvadoran government declared a state of emergency that suspended several constitutional rights and enabled the government to launch mass arrests of suspected gang members. The crackdown and state of emergency have since been extended 33 times as of 5 December 2024.

Opinion polling has been conducted in El Salvador since September 2019, three months after Nayib Bukele took office as President of El Salvador on 1 June 2019, to gauge public opinion of Bukele and his government. Despite negative reception from outside of El Salvador, domestically, Bukele is considered to be one of the most popular presidents in Salvadoran history as his approval ratings generally hover around 90 percent.

Events in the year 2022 in El Salvador.

The following tables list the results of opinion polls for the presidential, legislative, and municipal elections conducted since October 2022 in reverse chronological order for the 2024 Salvadoran general election. The party with the highest percentage is listed in bold and displayed with its background shaded, and the party with the second highest percentage is listed in bold. The lead column shows the percentage between the parties with the first and second highest percentages. For legislative and municipal election polls, projected seat counts, if available, are listed below the percentage.

Events in the year 2023 in El Salvador.

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The Terrorism Confinement Center 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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2023 Salvadoran protests</span> 2023 protests in El Salvador

Protests against re-election occurred in San Salvador, El Salvador on 1 May 2023 and 15 September 2023. In two protest marches, protesters marched from the Cuscatlán Park and the Rosales Hospital to the Gerardo Barrios Plaza in protest of the Salvadoran gang crackdown and President Nayib Bukele's re-election campaign. Protesters also demanded an increase in minimum wage and that the government respects the rights of syndicates and respects the constitution.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Guillermo Gallegos</span> Salvadoran politician

Guillermo Antonio Gallegos Navarrete is a Salvadoran lawyer and former politician of the Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA). He served as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from 2000 to 2024 and as the president of the Legislative Assembly from 2016 to 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gustavo Villatoro</span> Salvadoran politician

Héctor Gustavo Villatoro Funes is a Salvadoran politician who currently serves as the Minister of Justice and Public Security. He was appointed by President Nayib Bukele in 2021. During Villatoro's term, he has overseen the Salvadoran gang crackdown which has since led to the arrests of over 74,000 alleged gang members as of 7 December 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Blockade of San Marcos</span> Blockade in El Salvador

The blockade of San Marcos is an operation by the Salvadoran government to arrest members of the criminal gangs of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Mara Barrio 18 in the district of San Marcos. The operation began on October 28, 2024, when the Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced that 2,500 members of the country's security forces surrounded the 10 de Octubre community.

References

  1. ↑ Crespín, Verónica (6 January 2024). "Arranca voto electrónico para 741,094 salvadoreños con DUI en el exterior". Diario El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  2. ↑ "Los 622 Funcionarios Públicos que Elegirán los Salvadoreños en 2024" [The 622 Public Workers that Salvadorans Will Elect in 2024]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 3 July 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  3. ↑ Crespín, Verónica (29 February 2024). "TSE Entrega Credenciales a Bukele y Ulloa para Período Presidencial 2024-2029" [The TSE Gives Credentials to Bukele and Ulloa for the 2024–2029 Presidential Term]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  4. ↑ "El Salvador's former leftist strongholds contemplate party's demise". Associated Press . 6 March 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
  5. ↑ "Bukele anuncia capturas y cerco militar por homicidios en Chalatenango". Diario El Mundo (in Spanish). 24 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  6. ↑ "El Salvador says it foiled a plot to plant bombs on the day of President Bukele's inauguration". Associated Press. 1 June 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  7. ↑ "El Salvador's 'all-powerful' gang-busting President Bukele sworn in for second term". France 24. 1 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  8. ↑ "2 teens are killed when a bedroom wall collapses after heavy rains on an island in El Salvador". Associated Press. 11 June 2024. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  9. ↑ "7 people die in events related to heavy rains in El Salvador". Associated Press. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  10. ↑ "El Salvador death toll rises to 19 as heavy rains continue". AP News. 21 June 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  11. ↑ "Estudiantes fueron picados por enjambre de abejas en Juayúa" [Students were stung by swarm of bees in Juayua]. ElSalvador.com (in Spanish). 29 August 2024. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  12. ↑ "El Salvador's chief of police dies in suspicious helicopter crash". BBC. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  13. ↑ "The first US Peace Corps volunteers return to El Salvador since leaving in 2016 because of violence". Associated Press. 28 September 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  14. ↑ "El Salvador troops target gangs in large-scale operation". France 24. 28 October 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  15. ↑ "El Salvador's congress approves sending troop contingent to Haiti". Associated Press. 31 October 2024. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
  16. ↑ "Regional court faults El Salvador for denying a mother's access to abortion, violating her rights". Associated Press. 31 October 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
  17. ↑ "El Salvador Public Holidays 2024". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  18. ↑ "National Holidays in El Salvador in 2024". Office Holidays. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
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