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).
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 COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have reached El Salvador on 18 March 2020. As of 19 September 2021,El Salvador reported 102,024 cases,3,114 deaths,and 84,981 recoveries. As of that date El Salvador had arrested a total of 2,424 people for violating quarantine orders,and 1,268,090 people had been tested for the virus. On 31 March 2020,the first COVID-19 death in El Salvador was confirmed.
RenéFrancis Merino Monroy is a Salvadoran military officer and politician 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.
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.
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 will be 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). If necessary,a second presidential round will be held on the same date if no candidate receives over 50 percent of the vote in the first round.
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.
The Terrorism Confinement Center is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca,San Vicente,El Salvador. The prison was built from July 2022 to January 2023 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown;it was opened in January 2023 by President Nayib Bukele and received its first 2,000 prisoners in February 2023.
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 is currently a presidential pre-candidate for the FMLN for the upcoming 2024 general election;his running mate is Werner Marroquín. Flores supports El Salvador further strengthening relations with the People's Republic of China.
Guillermo Antonio Gallegos Navarrete is a Salvadoran lawyer and politician of the Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA). He currently serves as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador and previously served as the president of the Legislative Assembly
The war against corruption is an ongoing anti-corruption campaign in El Salvador. The campaign was declared by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on 1 June 2023.
The Territorial Control Plan is an ongoing Salvadoran security and anti-gang program. The program consists of six phases and a potential seventh phase if phases one through six are unsuccessful. In 2019,the Salvadoran government estimated that the Territorial Control Plan would cost US$575.2 million in total.
Rodolfo Antonio Delgado Montes is a Salvadoran lawyer who currently serves as the attorney general of El Salvador. He was appointed as attorney general by the Legislative Assembly in May 2021 after his predecessor,Raúl Melara,was removed by the Nuevas Ideas-led legislature. Prior to his appointment as attorney general,he worked for the Office of the Attorney General from 1995 to 2017 in various roles.
Karim Alberto Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran businessman and politician. He is a younger brother of and presidential advisor to Nayib Bukele,the incumbent 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.
Yusef AlíBukele Ortez is a Salvadoran businessman,politician,and economist. He is a younger brother of and advisor to Nayib Bukele,the incumbent 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.
