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Montevideo, April 16th 2025 - 09:23 UTC

Tag: El Salvador

  • Monday, February 5th 2024 - 11:01 UTC

    Bukele announces victory in El Salvador elections

    Argentina's violence problem is not as big as El Salvador's, Bukele said

    El Salvador's Nayib Bukele declared himself the winner “with more than 85% of the votes” before the official results of Sunday's elections were released. “According to our numbers, we have won the presidential election with more than 85% of the votes and a minimum of 58 of 60 Assembly deputies,” he stressed on social media.

  • Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 13:35 UTC

    Arrest of former Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani ordered

    Cristiani, 76, is said to be residing in Rome, Italy, but his current whereabouts are unknown

    A court in the Salvadoran city of San Francisco Gotera has issued a warrant for the arrest of former president Alfredo Cristiani (1989-1994) and some former lawmakers for their alleged involvement in the 1981 El Mozote massacre in which around 1,000 peasants were killed during the civil war (1980-1992).

  • Saturday, December 23rd 2023 - 10:02 UTC

    Paraguayan president says he is inspired by Bukele

    Photos of Operation Veneratio showed inmates face down, seated, on their knees, and in underwear, Bukele-style

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña confirmed in an international interview with CNN that he was inspired by his El Salvador colleague Nayib Bukele when launching Operation Veneratio this week, a move to dismantle virtual ownership by the notorious Rotela Clan drug gang of the Tacumbú Penitentiary in Asunción.

  • Monday, September 18th 2023 - 09:53 UTC

    Peru: Boluarte's gov't targets freedom of the press

    Boluarte's government has downplayed rumors that it might be trying to wage a Bukele-style war on crime

    Journalist guilds in Peru have expressed their concern about restrictions on freedom the government of President Dina Boluarte is planning to exert through changes to the Penal Code to hold demonstrators and reporters criminally accountable, it was reported in Lima.

  • Wednesday, July 19th 2023 - 10:52 UTC

    Powerful earthquake in Central America with residents to streets, but no victims say first reports

    The epicenter of the earthquake was 43 kilometers south of Intipuca, El Salvador, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

    A powerful earthquake shook many countries in Central America on Tuesday, with a magnitude of 6.5. The quake shook much of Central America late on Tuesday evening, from Nicaragua to Guatemala, forcing residents in some cities onto the streets.

  • Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:32 UTC

    Former Salvadoran president convicted in absentia

    Funes has had Nicaraguan citizenship since 2019

    A Salvadoran court Monday sentenced former President Mauricio Funes (2009-2014) to 14 years in prison for his alleged negotiations with criminal gangs. Funes, currently living in Nicaragua, got 8 years for illicit groupings and 6 years for breach of duty. Nicaragua gave him citizenship in 2019.

  • Saturday, March 25th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

    XXVIII Ibero-American Summit focused on economic recovery

    Andrés Manuel López Obrador will be among those not attending the gathering

    Heads of State and Government convened in Santo Domingo for the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit which is focused on post Covid-19 pandemic economic recovery in a world hit by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

  • Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

    Nicaraguan gov't outlaws another 58 NGOs

    After this measure, 146 NGOs have been dissolved in the last two weeks

    The Nicaraguan government of President Daniel Ortega has canceled the registrations of 58 other NGOs “for being in abandonment and having between 2 and 27 years of non-compliance in accordance with the laws that regulate them,” it was reported in Managua.

  • Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 19:18 UTC

    Boric hopes LatAm would not tolerate a coup in Brazil if Bolsonaro loses

    In addition to Bolsonaro, Boric singled out El Salvador's Bukele as an authoritarian leader

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Thursday said he hoped Latin America would stage a “joint reaction” if a coup d'état takes place in next month's presidential elections in Brazil.

  • Tuesday, July 5th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

    Abortion: Salvadorean woman sentenced to 50 years

    Pro-abortion groups will appeal the woman's conviction

    A woman in El Salvador has been handed down a 50-year jail sentence for having had an abortion, it was reported Monday. It was the first time that the maximum penalty has been applied. Pro-abortion groups have pledged to appeal the ruling.