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El Salvador

[ el sal-vuh-dawr; Spanish el sahl-vah-thawr ]

noun

  1. a republic in NW Central America. 13,176 sq. mi. (34,125 sq. km). : San Salvador.


El Salvador

/ É›l ˈsælvəˌdÉ”Ë /

noun

  1. 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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

El Salvador

  1. 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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Notes

Torn by civil unrest and characterized by guerrilla warfare and terrorism (which has included the murder of American civilians), El Salvador became in the 1980s a controversial focus of an American foreign policy that sought to protect American interests in Central America. Unrest eased in the 1990s.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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“Here, there is no doubt that the Venezuelans sent to El Salvador were detained within the United States,†he said.

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