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El Salvador Officially Inaugurates its Embassy in Ankara Turkey

On January 20th, 2022, the Salvadoran Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexandra Hill, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu, inaugurated the Embassy of El Salvador in Ankara, Turkey. Despite having diplomatic relations with Turkey for more than 70 years, it was until 2022 that the embassy was … Read more

El Salvador Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado gets Re-Elected

El Salvador Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado got Re-Elected for three more years by the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, December 22nd. His term will start from January 1st, 2022, to January 5th, 2025. Delgado was appointed, by legislators, to be a temporary Attorney General on May 1st, 2021. He replaced … Read more

18th street or Barrio 18 Gang Profile

This story originally appeared on InsightCrime.org on March 11, 2019. It is republished by ElSalvadorINFO.net under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license. The 18th Street Gang, also known as “Barrio 18,” is one of the largest youth gangs in the Western Hemisphere. Like its better known rival, the Mara Salvatrucha … Read more

2021 Traffic accidents in El Salvador reduced by 6.8% compared to 2019

Romeo Rodriguez, the Minister of Public Works, affirmed that the traffic accidents in El Salvador in 2021 had been reduced by 6.8%, compared to 2019; it is equivalent to 1,367 fewer accidents that have occurred on the roads, said the minister. Minister Rodriguez made the affirmation at a press conference … Read more