El Salvador
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- presidential parliamentary democracy
- CONSTITUTION
- December 20, 1983
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- is based on Roman and Anglo-Saxon systems
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Legislative Assembly
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court
RELIGIONS
57% Catholics, 21% Protestants, other
From the country
- JANUARY 1, 2001El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of the Republic of El Salvador at Art
The Constitution of the Republic of El Salvador at Art
- APRIL 26, 2000El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
El Salvador cosponsored and voted in favour of the...
El Salvador cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- JANUARY 1, 2000El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of the Republic of El Salvador (1983)...
The Constitution of the Republic of El Salvador (1983) at Art
- APRIL 28, 1999El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
El Salvador was a cosponsor and voted in favor of the...
El Salvador was a cosponsor and voted in favor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (1999/61)
- APRIL 17, 1999El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
On April 17, Fidel Castro promised to consider sparing...
On April 17, Fidel Castro promised to consider sparing the lives of the two Salvadorans sentenced to death for terrorism in Cuba
- APRIL 1, 1999El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
On April 1, a second Salvadoran man, Otto Rene Rodriguez...
On April 1, a second Salvadoran man, Otto Rene Rodriguez Llerena, was sentenced to death for a series of bombings and bombing attempts in Cuba
- MARCH 23, 1999El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
On March 23, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, a Salvadoran national...
On March 23, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, a Salvadoran national who confessed earlier in March in Havana's Provincial Tribunal, was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to death for a string of 1997 bombings in hotels and a restaurant, which killed an Italian
- FEBRUARY 1, 1999El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
In February, Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle quietly...
In February, Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle quietly approached Guatemalan leaders, seeking clemency for two Salvadoran men, Dimas Samayoa Garcia and Lucas Revolorio Samayoa, who were arrested in Adelanto, Guatemala, on February 5, and convicted on Febr
- JANUARY 1, 1999El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of the Republic of El Salvador (1983)...
The Constitution of the Republic of El Salvador (1983) at Art