2024 in El Salvador
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Events in the year 2024 in El Salvador.
- President: Nayib Bukele; Claudia Rodríguez de Guevara (acting, until 1 June 2024)
- Vice President: Félix Ulloa
Events
January
- 6 January – Electronic voting for Salvadoran expatriates in the presidential and legislative elections begins.[1]
February
- 4 February – 2024 Salvadoran presidential election: Salvadorans elect their president, vice president and the Legislative Assembly.[2] Nayib Bukele is reelected as president.[3]
March
- 3 March – 2024 Salvadoran legislative election (local offices).[4]
- 24 March – President Nayib Bukele announces the beginning of a blockade of four municipalities in northern El Salvador, mobilizing 5,000 soldiers and 1,000 police officers to arrest suspected gang members.[5]
May
- 31 May – Authorities announce the discovery of a plot to detonate bombs across the country coinciding with President Bukele's inauguration on 1 June. Former FMLN congressman José Santos Melara is arrested on suspicion of involvement.[6]
June
- 1 June – Nayib Bukele is inaugurated as President for a second term.[7]
- 10 June – Two people are killed in a landslide caused by heavy rains in Meanguera del Golfo.[8]
- 17 June – Five people are killed in landslides in Tacuba.[9]
- 21 June – The death toll from torrential rains in El Salvador increases to 19 people, including at least two children.[10]
August
- 28 August – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits La Libertad Department, resulting in 50 people being injured in Juayúa after being stung by bees from a fallen beehive.[11]
September
- 8 September – Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, the head of the National Civil Police is killed along with a fraud suspect and seven others in a helicopter crash near Pasaquina.[12]
- 27 September – The US Peace Corps is deployed to El Salvador for the first time since being pulled out in 2016 due to gang violence.[13]
October
- 28 October – A joint military-police operation involving 2,500 security personnel is launched to find suspected gang members in the 10 de Octubre neighborhood of San Salvador.[14]
- 30 October – The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador approves a proposal to send soldiers to Haiti as part of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission against gangs.[15]
December
- 20 December – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights finds the Salvadoran government responsible for committing obstetric violence, health violations and violating the physical integrity of a woman whom it denied abortion despite carrying a anencephalic fetus.[16]
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