#El Salvador

President Nayib Bukele alongside Salvadoran troops at a ceremony in San Salvador in June 2019.

El Salvador has about 1,300 troops in Haiti and announces a force of more than 2,000 to rescue four missing servicemen

An aerial view of the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Cecot) in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in an image released by the Salvadoran presidency in 2023.

Regional security

Costa Rica and El Salvador agree to cooperate against transnational crime after Fernández tours the Cecot

The headquarters of El Salvador's Tribunal Supremo Electoral, in September 2026.

El Salvador formally calls the general elections of 28 February 2027