Salvadorans
Forty years on, a locked-down El Salvador remembers the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero online
Saint Oscar Arnulfo Romero Galdamez was born on August 15, 1917, in Ciudad Barrios, a municipality in the department of San Miguel, in the Republic of El Salvador. He was a Catholic priest, the fourth metropolitan archbishop of San Salvador (1977-1980), and famous for defending human rights. Saint Oscar Arnulfo … Read more
Yamil Bukele El Salvador, looking to improve sports in El Salvador
Yamil Bukele is the President of INDES, the National Institute of Sports of El Salvador. Bukele is also the Vice President of FIBA Americas and President of the Central American and Caribbean Basketball Confederation, CONCENCABA. Yamil Bukele was appointed to this position by his brother President Nayib Bukele. Some have … Read more
Francisco Alabi El Salvador. Salvadoran Health Minister
Francisco Alabi is the El Salvador Health Minister. Alabi was sworn in as a minister in March 2020 by President Nayib Bukele. His previous position was Vice Minister of Health Operations. He replaced the former minister, Ana Orellana Bendek, who served nine months in her work. The Bukele Presidency sent … Read more
Oscar Ortiz El Salvador. Secretary-General of the FMLN.
Oscar Ortiz is the Secretary-General of the Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation, FMLN. Ortiz served as vice president of El Salvador from 2014 to 2019. Previously, he was the city mayor of Santa Tecla from 2000 to 2014. During the civil war of the 1980s, Oscar Ortiz was part … Read more
Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador from 2019 to 2024
Nayib Bukele is the current president of El Salvador; he was sworn in on June 1st, 2019, and will serve a five-year term ending in 2024. At the age of 37, Bukele became the 46th president of El Salvador; he is the youngest person ever elected as president of this … Read more
Iris Violeta Foundation. Giving a hand to many who need it.
Iris Violeta Foundation is a not for profit organization that helps adults and kids at the Rosales Hospital and the Benjamin Bloom children’s hospital in San Salvador. The founder is Otilia Sorto Fuentes, a Salvadoran from Corinto in Morazan who currently lives in Oklahoma City, USA. My first interaction with … Read more
Guillermo Gallegos, El Salvador politician.
Guillermo Gallegos is a deputy and third vice-president of the Salvadoran Legislative assembly for the legislative term of 2021 to 2024. He is a legislator representing the department of San Salvador. Gallegos is a career politician. He was first elected to the Salvadoran Assembly back in 2000; since then, he … Read more
