Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador,the Titular Bishop of Tambeae,as Bishop of Santiago de María,and finally as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. As archbishop,Romero spoke out against social injustice and violence amid the escalating conflict between the military government and left-wing insurgents that led to the Salvadoran Civil War. In 1980,Romero was shot by an assassin while celebrating Mass. Though no one was ever convicted for the crime,investigations by the UN-created Truth Commission for El Salvador concluded that Major Roberto D'Aubuisson,a death squad leader and later founder of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) political party,had ordered the killing.
The Chapultepec Peace Accords were a set of peace agreements signed on January 16,1992,the day in which the Salvadoran Civil War ended. The treaty established peace between the Salvadoran government and the Farabundo MartíNational Liberation Front (FMLN). It was signed in Chapultepec Castle,Mexico.
The Revolutionary Government Junta was the name of three consecutive joint civilian-military dictatorships that ruled El Salvador between 15 October 1979 and 2 May 1982.
Carlos Humberto Romero Mena was a Salvadoran military general and politician who served as president of El Salvador from 1 July 1977 until his overthrow on 15 October 1979. Romero was the final president of the country's military dictatorship which began in 1931.
Lieutenant Colonel JoséMaría Lemus López was president of El Salvador from 14 September 1956 to 26 October 1960. Before becoming a president,he served as an undersecretary of defense and a minister of the interior.
The Salvadoran military dictatorship was the period of time in Salvadoran history where the Salvadoran Armed Forces governed the country for almost 48 years from 2 December 1931 until 15 October 1979. The authoritarian military dictatorship limited political rights throughout the country and maintained its governance through rigged and fixed elections.
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Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda is a retired Mexican Army officer. He served as the Secretary of National Defense in the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto from 2012 to 2018.
Carmen Teresa Meléndez Rivas is a Venezuelan politician and Navy admiral. She was Minister of Interior and Justice from 25 October 2014 to 9 March 2015,and chief of staff in President Nicolás Maduro's cabinet for nearly six months from March to September 2015. After a governorship in Lara (2017–2020),she headed the Interior Ministry for the second time,from October 2020 to August 2021.
Since 2016,Peru has been plagued with political instability and a growing crisis,initially between the President,Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Congress,led de facto by Keiko Fujimori. The crisis emerged in late 2016 and early 2017 as the polarization of Peruvian politics increased,as well as a growing schism between the executive and legislative branches of government. Fujimori and her Fujimorist supporters would use their control of Congress to obstruct the executive branch of successive governments,resulting with a period of political instability in Peru.
Alberto Carlos Oliart Saussol was a Spanish politician and executive. He was a government minister three times during the Spanish transition to democracy and chairman of Spanish Radio and Television Corporation between 2009 and 2011.
Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez Avendaño was Salvadoran military officer,statesman,and engineer. He served as the chairman of the Revolutionary Government Junta (JRG) in 1980 and as the vice president of the JRG from 1980 to 1982. He also served as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of El Salvador (FAES) from 1980 to 1982.
The 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état was a military coup d'état that occurred in El Salvador on 15 October 1979. The coup,led by young military officers,bloodlessly overthrew military President Carlos Humberto Romero and sent him into exile. The National Conciliation Party's firm grasp on power was cut,and in its place,the military established the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador (JRG). The junta was composed of two military officers and three civilians.
The Junta of Government was a military junta established by Salvadoran military officers on 26 October 1960 after a coup d'état toppled President JoséMaría Lemus.
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.
RenéFrancis Merino Monroy is a Salvadoran military officer who currently serves as the Minister of National Defense. He was appointed to the position by President Nayib Bukele in June 2019,becoming the first officer from the Salvadoran Navy to serve as minister of defense.
The Minister of National Defense of El Salvador is a Salvadoran military officer who serves as the head of the Ministry of National Defense of El Salvador.
David Victoriano Munguía Payés is a former Salvadoran Army general who served as Minister of National Defense of El Salvador from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2013 to 2019.
The Captain General Gerardo Barrios Military School,abbreviated as the EMCGGB,was a military academy in El Salvador. It was established in 1868 and is named after Captain General Gerardo Barrios who served as President of El Salvador from 1859 to 1863. It was located in Antiguo Cuscatlán,Santa Tecla,La Libertad. It was demolished in June 2022 to make way for the construction of the Estadio Nacional de El Salvador.
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