The Embassy of El Salvador in Washington,D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of El Salvador to the United States. It is located at 1400 16th Street Northwest,Suite 100,Washington,D.C. in the Dupont Circle neighborhood.
Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who is the 43rd president of El Salvador,serving since 1 June 2019. He is the first president since JoséNapoleón Duarte (1984–1989) not to have been elected as the candidate of one of the country's two major political parties:the left-wing Farabundo MartíNational Liberation Front (FMLN) and the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA).
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.
Félix Augusto Antonio Ulloa Garay is a Salvadoran politician and lawyer who became Vice President of El Salvador on 1 June 2019.
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 18 February 2021. Salvadorans elected all 84 deputies of the Legislative Assembly,all 262 mayors of municipal councils of the country's municipalities,and all 20 of El Salvador's deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN).
Nuevas Ideas is a Salvadoran political party. 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.
Gabriela Roberta Rodríguez de Bukele is a Salvadoran educator,prenatal psychologist and the current First Lady of El Salvador,as the wife of the 43rd President of El Salvador,Nayib Bukele. She is also a professional ballet dancer and is part of the dance company Fundación Ballet de El Salvador.
The 2020 Salvadoran political crisis,commonly referred to as the numeronym 9F,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.
Armando Bukele Kattán was a Salvadoran businessman and Muslim religious leader and father of current Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
Events in the year 2021 in El Salvador.
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.
A political crisis in El Salvador occurred on 1 May 2021 when the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador voted to remove several judges from the Supreme Court and remove the Attorney General of El Salvador,both of which had been vocal opponents to the presidency of Nayib Bukele. The event has been referred to as a self-coup by the opposition and by news media outlets due to the action itself but also because of the 2020 Salvadoran political crisis in the year prior,where Bukele ordered soldiers into the Legislative Assembly,which has also been characterized as a self-coup.
General elections were held in El Salvador on 4 February 2024 to elect the president,vice president and all 60 deputies of the Legislative Assembly. This will be followed by a second set of elections on 3 March 2024 in which voters will elect all 44 mayors and municipal councils of the country's municipalities and all 20 of El Salvador's deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN).
The Salvadoran gang crackdown,referred to in El Salvador as the régimen de excepción and the guerra contra las pandillas,began in March 2022 in response to a crime spike between 25 and 27 March 2022,when 87 people were killed in El Salvador. The Salvadoran government blamed the spike in murders on criminal gangs in the country,resulting in the country's legislature approving a state of emergency that suspended the rights of association and legal counsel,and increased the time spent in detention without charge,among other measures that expanded the powers of law enforcement in the country.
The Airport of the Pacific is a planned joint-use civilian international airport and military base which will be located in Conchagua,El Salvador,and will serve the city of La Unión. The airport was proposed by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele during his 2019 presidential campaign as a part of his "Plan Cuscatlán" and construction was approved by the Legislative Assembly on 26 April 2022. Terraforming began in March 2023.
Opinion polling has been conducted in El Salvador since September 2019,three months after President Nayib Bukele took office 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.
Juan Manuel de Jesús Flores Cornejo,nicknamed "El Chino",is a Salvadoran politician. As a member of the Farabundo MartíNational Liberation Front (FMLN),Flores served as the mayor of Quezaltepeque from 2003 to 2012 and then later as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from La Libertad from 2012 to 2021. He was the presidential candidate for the FMLN in the 2024 general election with running mate is Werner Marroquín. He lost in a landslide victory for incumbent Nayib Bukele. Flores supports El Salvador further strengthening relations with the People's Republic of China.
Osiris Luna Meza is a Salvadoran politician who currently serves as the General Director of Penal Centers and the Vice Minister of Justice and Public Security. He previously served as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from the department of San Salvador from 2018 to 2019.
Karim Alberto Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran businessman and politician. He is a younger brother of and was a presidential advisor to Nayib Bukele,the current president of El Salvador. Bukele has previously worked as Nayib's campaign manager during his 2015 and 2019 electoral campaigns as well as the campaign manager for the Nuevas Ideas political party in 2021. In late-2023,Bukele was considered a likely candidate to succeed Nayib as acting president in the event that he resigned ahead of the 2024 general election,however,Bukele denied that he would succeed Nayib.
Yusef AlíBukele Ortez is a Salvadoran businessman,politician,and economist. He is a younger brother of and advisor to Nayib Bukele,the current president of El Salvador. Bukele has served as one of Nayib's economic advisors and played a role in the adoption of bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador.
