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clear:right; border: 2px solid silver; margin: 0 0 .5em .5em; width: 200px;"> <div style="background-color: #e7ece6; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; padding: .3em;"><b>El Salvador</b> <b></b></div> <center><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg" class="image"><img alt="Flag of El Salvador.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg/195px-Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg.png" decoding="async" width="195" height="110" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg/293px-Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg/390px-Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1005" data-file-height="567" /></a></center> <table style="width: 200px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: #e8e7f2;"><b>Demographics</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population" class="extiw" title="wp:List of countries by population" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: List of countries by population">Population</span></a>:<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>6,825,935 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" class="extiw" title="wp:List of countries by GDP (nominal)" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: List of countries by GDP (nominal)">GDP (million)</span></a>:<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>26,277 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita" class="extiw" title="wp:List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita">GDP p/cap.</span></a>:<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>4,031 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy" class="extiw" title="wp:List of countries by life expectancy" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: List of countries by life expectancy">Life expectancy</span></a>:<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>75.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index" class="extiw" title="wp:List of countries by Human Development Index" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: List of countries by Human Development Index">Development Index</span></a>:<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>0.673 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="width: 200px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: #e8e7f2;"><b>Government</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index" class="extiw" title="wp:Democracy Index" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Democracy Index">Democracy Index</span></a>:<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>6.22 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index" class="extiw" title="wp:Corruption Perceptions Index" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Corruption Perceptions Index">Corruption Index</span></a>:<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>36 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="width: 200px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: #e8e7f2;"><b>More</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index" class="extiw" title="wp:Education Index" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Education Index">Education Index</span></a>:<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>0.555 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_country" class="extiw" title="wp:Importance of religion by country" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Importance of religion by country">Religiosity</span></a>:<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>NA </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p><b>El Salvador</b> is a small country in <a href="/wiki/Central_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Central America">Central America</a>, lying between Honduras and the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a>. As with much of Latin America, the 20th century saw a string of <a href="/wiki/Coup" class="mw-redirect" title="Coup">coups</a> and civil unrest before a civil war against a brutal US-backed right-wing government, which ended in 1991; one of the key events in this conflict was the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero by a government death squad in 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcesprofile-1">[1]</a></sup> In 2019, right-wing populist <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a> acolyte <a href="/wiki/Nayib_Bukele" title="Nayib Bukele">Nayib Bukele</a> became President. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#History"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Saint_Oscar"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Saint Oscar</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Nayib_Bukele"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Nayib Bukele</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Currency"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Currency</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=El_Salvador&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>In the pre-Colombian era it was controlled by various nations and empires including the Olmecs, Lenca, Mayans, and Cuzcatlecs. It was conquered by the Spanish in the early 16th century, initially part of New Spain ruled from Mexico and later part of the province of Guatemala. After the Spanish left in 1821, it was ruled by the First Mexican Empire and then the Federal Republic of Central America before independence in 1840.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcesprofile-1">[1]</a></sup> It was briefly part of a union with Honduras and Nicaragua from 1895-98. </p><p>In 1930, Agustine Farabundo Marti led a peasant uprising that was suppressed with 30,000 deaths.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcesprofile-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>The ironically-named right-wing National Conciliation Party came to power in 1961 in a military coup. In 1969, it fought the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War" class="extiw" title="wp:Football War" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Football War">Football War</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup>" against Honduras when tensions caused by Salvadorian immigration into Honduras and land reform that kicked most of those immigrants out came to a head in a bitterly divided World Cup football (soccer for you dirty Yanks) game that led to El Salvador invading Honduras. The war lasted five days and didn't have a clear winner, and El Salvador ended up being eliminated from the World Cup after losing their first three matches anyway.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcesprofile-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>The country hit its nadir with the Salvadoran Civil War (c. 1979 to 1992), which followed increasing unrest as left wing groups, who in 1980 combined to form Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), responded to brutal government repression with attacks on security forces and government officials. Government death squads killed perhaps 30,000 people from 1979-1981; the most famous death was Archbishop Oscar Romero, assassinated in 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcesprofile-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>Throughout the Salvadoran Government and Military was provided with military aid from the US who turned a blind eye to massacres that this aid enabled. </p><p>Politics of a sort went on. Jose Napoleon Duarte became president in 1980, and the far-right National Republican Alliance (Arena) gained a parliamentary majority in 1982, but the violence continued. Alfredo Cristiani replaced Duarte in 1989, in elections suspected to be rigged. A peace accord was finally signed in 1991, with an amnesty announced 2 years later.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcesprofile-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>After 1991, war was largely over, but the country faced other problems including volcanoes, flooding, and rising gang violence.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcesprofile-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>FMLN was recognised as a political party, and it and Arena contested elections in the following decades, with Mauricio Funes of the FMLN becoming president in 2009, succeeded in 2014 by his former VP Sanchez Ceren.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcesprofile-1">[1]</a></sup> A right-wing populist, Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez, became president in 2019 for the New Ideas party (the first non-FMLN and non-Arena leader since the 90s); he was an ally of <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> and an <a href="/wiki/Authoritarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Authoritarian">authoritarian</a> mayor of San Salvador.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Saint_Oscar">Saint Oscar</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=El_Salvador&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Saint Oscar">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:157px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Monse%C3%B1or_Romero_(colour).jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Monse%C3%B1or_Romero_%28colour%29.jpg/155px-Monse%C3%B1or_Romero_%28colour%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="155" height="176" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Monse%C3%B1or_Romero_%28colour%29.jpg/233px-Monse%C3%B1or_Romero_%28colour%29.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Monse%C3%B1or_Romero_%28colour%29.jpg/310px-Monse%C3%B1or_Romero_%28colour%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="631" data-file-height="717" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Monse%C3%B1or_Romero_(colour).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Romero in 1978</div></div></div> <p>Oscar Romero was born in 1917, son of a telegraph operator, and entered a seminary aged 14; he studied in Rome and became a priest.<sup id="cite_ref-cafod_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cafod-3">[3]</a></sup> He worked as a parish priest for 25 years, but after suffering mental health problems in 1966 he took a job as a church bureaucrat, where he gained a reputation as an orthodox, conservative, compliant person. In the mid 70s he had a short time as a parish priest in poorer areas where he began to realize the abuse that peasants were suffering from the security forces. But it seems nobody noticed his gradual change of attitude as he became Archbishop in 1977, and initially he was considered a conservative, orthodox, safe pair of hands who would stop priests speaking out too much in defence of the poor.<sup id="cite_ref-irishtimes_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-irishtimes-4">[4]</a></sup> </p><p>But everything changed shortly after his appointment, when his friend the more radical Jesuit priest Father Rutilio Grande was shot and killed by the security forces, along with two other people; Romero held a mass denouncing the murders. He continued to speak out, including in sermons broadcast over the radio, even after his radio station was bombed.<sup id="cite_ref-cafod_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cafod-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-irishtimes_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-irishtimes-4">[4]</a></sup> </p><p>Romero was shot dead in 1980; the UN later found that Major Roberto D'Aubuisson of the El Salvadorean armed forces had ordered his death. But his death was far from the end of the horrors. At Romero's funeral, the army fired into the crowd, killing 30 people and wounding hundreds more. Romero was beatified in 2015 and <a href="/wiki/Saint" title="Saint">canonised</a> by the Pope in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-cafod_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cafod-3">[3]</a></sup> D'Aubuisson was never brought to justice, seemingly protected by the US government which supported the death squads to defend the far-right government, and concealed evidence of their crimes; D'Aubuisson went on to a political career and died a natural death in 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Nayib_Bukele">Nayib Bukele</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=El_Salvador&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Nayib Bukele">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Nayib_Bukele" title="Nayib Bukele">Nayib Bukele</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:167px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Nayib_Bukele_-_2019_(48342383356)_(cropped).jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Nayib_Bukele_-_2019_%2848342383356%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/165px-Nayib_Bukele_-_2019_%2848342383356%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="248" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Nayib_Bukele_-_2019_%2848342383356%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/248px-Nayib_Bukele_-_2019_%2848342383356%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Nayib_Bukele_-_2019_%2848342383356%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Nayib_Bukele_-_2019_%2848342383356%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1312" data-file-height="1969" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Nayib_Bukele_-_2019_(48342383356)_(cropped).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Bukele in 2019</div></div></div> <p>Nayib Bukele has been president since 1 June 2019 after winning the election for the Grand Alliance for National Unity (Gana). Bukele was a former Yamaha distributor and ex-mayor of San Salvador. He was previously a member of the leftist FMLN but was thrown out for "disrespecting" women and throwing an apple at a community leader. At the time of his election he was seen as an opportunist who promoted himself as offering a new style of politics (being in neither of the main parties), an "anti-system" candidate, also known for his frequent social media use. (Certainly some echoes of <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">another controversial leader</a>.) His program included clamping down on corruption and gang violence, and promised a realignment of foreign policy in favor of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> against left-wing governments such as <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>'s.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> </p><p>In February 2020, he was accused of trying to stage a coup when he brought soldiers into the legislature during a debate on funding for the security forces; the legislature was refusing to give him the money he wanted, he tried to convene a special session to vote it through, and legislators rebelled, so he brought some friends along. Assembly President Mario Ponce called it "an attempted coup".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> </p><p>To deal with the country's problem of gang violence, it has been alleged that in 2020 Bukele did a deal with jailed gang leaders to give them privileges in exchange for calming the violence and for supporting his leadership (he isn't the first Salvadorean leader to be accused of this). Bukele, who claims to be tough on gangs, has denied this and responded by tweeting photos of prisoners looking miserable.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> </p><p>In January 2021, two party activists for the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) were shot dead; this seemed to signal a return to the era of death squads. Bukele was blamed by some for contributing to an atmosphere of violence, but condemned the killings.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup> </p><p>His party New Ideas gained a parliamentary majority in 2021. They used this to bend the state's organs to their will, with accusations of a <a href="/wiki/Self-coup" class="mw-redirect" title="Self-coup">self-coup</a> when they dismissed 5 senior judges and the attorney general to replace them with more friendly alternatives; this was condemned by <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a>'s administration.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Currency">Currency</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=El_Salvador&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Currency">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:167px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Personas_Cajero_Bitcoin_El_Zonte,_El_Salvador.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Personas_Cajero_Bitcoin_El_Zonte%2C_El_Salvador.jpg/165px-Personas_Cajero_Bitcoin_El_Zonte%2C_El_Salvador.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="220" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Personas_Cajero_Bitcoin_El_Zonte%2C_El_Salvador.jpg/248px-Personas_Cajero_Bitcoin_El_Zonte%2C_El_Salvador.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Personas_Cajero_Bitcoin_El_Zonte%2C_El_Salvador.jpg/330px-Personas_Cajero_Bitcoin_El_Zonte%2C_El_Salvador.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Personas_Cajero_Bitcoin_El_Zonte,_El_Salvador.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Bitcoin ATM in El Salvador — may need some percussive maintenance</div></div></div> <p>In 2001 El Salvador switched from using its own currency the Colon to using the US dollar. This has some advantages: one of the main sources of income for El Salvador is remittances from overseas, and so it reduces currency exchange fees. Also after the devastating economic crisis of the 80s and 90s it provides a measure of stability against inflation because the government can't print more money. However this could also be seen as a disadvantage because they have no control over the money supply; and it's also slightly problematic having a currency with English language notes in a predominantly Spanish-speaking country.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup> </p><p>In 2021 the government announced that <a href="/wiki/Bitcoin" title="Bitcoin">Bitcoin</a> would be legal tender, meaning that all businesses would have to accept it as payment for goods or services, alongside the US dollar.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup> Despite this, Bitcoin remains unpopular in El Salvador, 71% of those polled saying that they saw no benefit from it in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-zablah_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zablah-15">[15]</a></sup> Bukele uses it primarily to promote the idea to his Bitcoin buddies <i>in English</i>, while his buddies spread <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> that El Salvador is a techno-utopia or <a href="/wiki/Libertarian_paradise" title="Libertarian paradise">libertarian paradise</a>, whereas the reality of El Salvador is that it's sliding into authoritarianism.<sup id="cite_ref-zablah_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zablah-15">[15]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=El_Salvador&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-bbcesprofile-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-0">1.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-1">1.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-2">1.2</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-3">1.3</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-4">1.4</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-5">1.5</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-6">1.6</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-bbcesprofile_1-7">1.7</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-19402222">El Salvador profile - Timeline</a>, BBC, accessed June 10, 2021</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ft.com/content/f09c610a-ef51-495f-93cb-d952970757f1">Election consolidates power of El Salvador’s authoritarian president</a>, Financial Times, Mar 1, 2021</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-cafod-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-cafod_3-0">3.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-cafod_3-1">3.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-cafod_3-2">3.2</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cafod.org.uk/News/International-news/Oscar-Romero-life-timeline">Oscar Romero timeline</a>, CAFOD</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-irishtimes-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-irishtimes_4-0">4.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-irishtimes_4-1">4.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/oscar-romero-one-time-conservative-who-became-a-nation-s-social-martyr-1.3657423">Oscar Romero: one-time conservative who became a nation's social martyr</a>, Irish Times, Oct 10, 2018</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/23/features11.g21">The killing of Archbishop Oscar Romero was one of the most notorious crimes of the cold war. Was the CIA to blame?</a>, The Guardian, Mar 23, 2000</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-48458077">Nayib Bukele: El Salvador's incoming leader promises 'new era'</a>, BBC News, 1 June 2019</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayib_Bukele" class="extiw" title="wp:Nayib Bukele" rel="nofollow">Nayib Bukele</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-51458947">El Salvador parliament denounces president's 'attempted coup'</a>, BBC News, 11 Feb 2020</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-54192736">Did El Salvador's government make a deal with gangs?</a>, BBC News, 3 Oct 2020</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-54033444">El Salvador granted favours to jailed gang leaders, report says</a>, BBC News, 5 September 2020</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-55888261">El Salvador violence: Deadly attack on party activists</a>, BBC News, 1 Feb 2021</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56970026">US concerned over removal of top Salvadorean judges</a>, BBC News, 3 May 2021</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://traveltips.usatoday.com/currency-el-salvador-63881.html">Currency El Salvador</a>, USA Today Travel Tips</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-14">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/10/investing/bitcoin-price-el-salvador-intl-hnk/index.html">Bitcoin jumps after El Salvador says it'll start accepting it as legal tender</a>, CNN, June 10, 2021</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-zablah-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-zablah_15-0">15.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-zablah_15-1">15.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/02/opinion/bitcoin-el-salvador-bukele-crypto.html">El Salvador’s Bitcoin Paradise Is a Mirage</a> by Nelson Rauda Zablah (July 2, 2022) <i>The New York Times</i>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div role="navigation" aria-labelledby="Nations_of_the_world-navigationbox" class="toccolours" style="clear:both; margin:0.5em 3.5%; text-align:center;"> <div style="margin:0.15em; padding:0.1em; background:#ccccff; font-weight:bold;"><span id="Nations_of_the_world-navigationbox"><a href="/wiki/Nation" title="Nation">Nations</a> of the world</span> </div> <div class="hlist" style="font-size: 90%; margin: 0.15em 1.425em;"><span style="float:left;"><big><a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa"><b>Africa</b></a>:</big></span><a 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