El Salvador Research Paper

El Salvador is a democratic republic whose constitution was adopted in 1983. It has executive, judicial, and legislative government branches. They have a president, and he/she cannot serve more than two terms. The president has the executive power, when he is elected he is in office for five years. The Legislative single-chamber Assembly has 84 members who are elected by popular vote. El Salvador is also divided into 14 administrative departments and their armed forces have 15,500 active members, and their National Civilian Police has about 12,000 members. (World Book E6 248-249).

For twelve years (1980-1992), El Salvador suffered this brutal civil war and saw some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin American history. The government refused to attend peace talks by the FMLN and the FMLN refused to participate in elections knowing it results would be rigged. The military tried to kill all suspected rebels and the FMLN damaged anything that supported the government’s economy. Throughout the war there was so much human rights violations such as subjecting civilians to torture, forced disappearance, extrajudicial killing, mutilation, mass rape, massacres, summary executions, landmines and indiscriminate bombing. As the result, by the end of the civil war about 75,000 people were killed, sadly most of which were civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time. The intensity of military repression and constant fear provoked massive northern migration to the United States. By the mid-1980s almost one-fifth of the Salvadoran population was living in the United

The capital of the country Honduras is Tegucigalpa. It is located in the Southern part of the country. Three other important cities in Honduras are San Pedro Sula, Danlí, and Roatan. I chose San Pedro Sula as an important city because it is the second largest city in Honduras. Also, it is located in Northern Honduras. I chose Danlí as an important city because is the smallest city, and has the smalled population. Danlí is located in Southern Honduras. The last place I chose is Roatan, I chose it because it is the biggest of Honduras’ bay islands. It is located North of Honduras.

The Chile Presidential Election is going to take place on November 19th, 2017. The elected President will serve a four-year term and begin their term on March 11th, 2018. If none of the candidates secure the absolute majority though, a “runoff” election will be held on December 17th, 2017. They have this election so the current President, Michelle Bachelet, from being reelected. This is basically like a second round for all the candidates. As for the senate, only 23 of the 43 members will serve in the National Congress for their eight-year term. They’re only raising the number of membership after this election from 38 to 43 and then eventually 50 for the 2021 election.

Kelsey Vaught Larissa Miller Spanish II 10 October 2014 El Salvador El Salvador or the Republic of El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America. Despite its small size, however, El Salvador is also the most densely populated country in Central America. “It borders the Pacific Ocean on the south, and the countries of Guatemala to the west and Honduras to the north and east.

The survey found that just only twelve percent believe the government is in control. Six percent answered it’s  President Salvador Sánchez Cerén holds power, and only three percent answered the same about the governing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. The survey found that sixty-one percent of Salvadorans believe that insecurity and chaos remains the country's primary problem, and eighty-one percent believe that crime and insecurity have grown in size.  As for the factors responsible for worsening crime and insecurity, 45 percent of Salvadorans pointed to the "poor performance of the government," while just 15 percent blamed the gangs and 6 percent blamed the National Police. What’s incredible that if you think about it  El salvador has a population of 6.3 million people, and half of them have no idea where they stand in all this. It’s one thing to have a government but it’s another when you have gangs that rule your country to do as they please without peace and

This baseline will only reflect the cultural awareness of Ecuador. I’m also going to discuss why Ecuador could be beneficial for the country of the United States, simply because of their natural resources. Even though it is considered a third world country, it has a lot of potential to be one of the most prosperous countries in South America due to the products it has to offer. Ecuador, is a democratic republic country in South America, and is surrounded by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. This country also includes the well-known Galapagos Islands in the Pacific, about 600 miles west of the mainland. Ecuador straddles the equator, from which it takes its name. Ecuador’s overall landscape

The Salvadoran government, since the peasant revolt in 1932, had actively played a role in oppressing the impoverished majority through autocratic rule. Due to the government being an autocratic regime that had limited checks on it’s power, it was able to use military force to support the agricultural elite oppression. The El Salvadoran government was an autocracy that was unresponsive to it’s citizens. Those that expressed dissent or populist sentiments were deemed enemies of the government, and the government acted accordingly in eliminating those threats which included the use of force. Elections, though considered free and fair by the US, limited the participation of political candidates that were far left of center.

The executive branch consists of Chief of State, head of government, and cabinet. The legislative branches consist of members directly elected by majority in a two-round vote and also serve only a five-year term, and the judicial branch has the people’s supreme court, which is the highest court, and consist of 41 professional judges; additionally the elected judges only serve for 2.5

El Salvador is located in Central America. The country has over 6 million people and is known as the smallest and over populated country. The people in El Salvador are of Indigenous American descent and European mixed with America Indian also known as Mestizos of European. El Salvador has had many revolutions to civil wars within a few centuries up into the twenty first century . El Salvador uniting with the Federal Republic of Central America in 1821, developing a communist party near 1932 and the most recent of the tragic El Mozote massacre in the 1980's is a few of the history events that took place.

In 1998, Hurricane Mitch devastated the country, leaving 200 dead and over 30,000 homeless (History). Several other disasters involve major earthquakes that struck the country in the early 2000s which damaged roughly 20 percent of all the property in El Salvador, and a drought that destroyed 80 percent of all the countries crops, leaving a harsh famine that spread throughout the country. After all this disaster in 2006 the nation of El Salvador started a free-trade agreement or (CAFTA) with the U.S, which made it the first Central American country to do so (History). On March 2009, Mauricio Funes became the first former FMLN party member to be elected president, this act ended two decades of conservative rule in the country and began a new era of presidents for the country.

There are plenty of good things to be said about El Salvador, the Latin American country that sits in the heart of Central America, surrounded by volcanic mountains, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and a Pacific coast of startlingly beautiful beaches and rustic fishing villages.

Once upon a time, El Salvador was a land known for its sunny beaches and the locals’ warmth. Nowadays, the country is recognized worldwide for its high crime and poverty rate. El Salvador has become a nation full of corruption and instability. People here live in constant fear due to the presence of gangs, who are responsible for most of the violence in the country.

El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are currently the one of the world’s most dangerous triangles. Political instability as well as economic rules these three countries, in El Salvador, the GDP only grew 1.9% within 6 years, making it one of the slowest growing economies in Central America ( World Bank, 2017). Not to mention, Guatemala and Honduras following right behind with small economies, each country has had there own fair share of political instability in one from or another. In addition, El Salvador is now the most dangerous country outside of a war zone, Guatemala is also having their own issues with violence perpetrated by gangs and death squads. US involvement is nothing new to the people of these countries, however with Honduras having issues since the coup d’état in 2009, it

COMPARATIVE ESSAY NORWAY & EL SALVADOR 2 INTRODUCTION An estimated 800,000 women and children are trafficked across international borders every year. Norway and El Salvador have a lot of differences that any other first and third world countries would have. It is obvious that the number of cases in Norway are less than in El Salvador, and that’s one of the principal subtopics in this essay, as well as the Special Laws that are determined to combat this problem and, lastly, what are the organizations’ goals of both countries about this issue, Human Trafficking. COMPARATIVE ESSAY NORWAY & EL SALVADOR 3 Human Trafficking Cases Norway is an important destination for victims of human trafficking while in the other hand El Salvador is a source of victims so in this case