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El Salvador
[ el sal-vuh-dawr; Spanish el sahl-vah-thawr ]
noun
- a republic in NW Central America. 13,176 sq. mi. (34,125 sq. km). : San Salvador.
El Salvador
/ É›l ˈsælvəˌdÉ”Ë /
noun
- a republic in Central America, on the Pacific: colonized by the Spanish from 1524; declared independence in 1841, becoming a republic in 1856. It consists of coastal lowlands rising to a central plateau. Coffee constitutes over a third of the total exports. Official language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: US dollar. Capital: San Salvador. Pop: 6 108 590 (2013 est). Area: 21 393 sq km (8236 sq miles)
El Salvador
- Republic on the Pacific coast of Central America , bordered to the west by Guatemala , to the north and east by Honduras , and to the south by the Pacific Ocean . San Salvador is its capital and largest city.
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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador.
The judge's order prohibited the federal government from sending Abrego Garcia back to El Salvador, but that didn't stop the Trump administration from seeking to deport him.
In a post on X, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele shared a dramatically edited video showing men being loaded off of a plane and into prison cells.
Noem came to the Mexican capital on the final leg of a three-nation Latin American trip that included stops in Colombia and El Salvador.
“Here, there is no doubt that the Venezuelans sent to El Salvador were detained within the United States,†he said.
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