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Salvador Sánchez Cerén

president of El Salvador
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Salvador Sánchez Cerén served as the president of El Salvador from 2014 to 2019. He was a former guerrilla commander and a member of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). His presidency followed that of Mauricio Funes, also from the FMLN, who was the first president from the former guerrilla group to take office.123

During Sánchez Cerén's term, El Salvador continued to grapple with significant challenges, including pervasive poverty, high levels of gang violence, and mass emigration. His administration adopted a hard-line approach to combatting organized crime and gang violence, implementing an aggressive law enforcement offensive. Despite efforts to address crime, the country's homicide rate remained high.13

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  1. El Salvador - Military dictatorships
  2. history of El Salvador - The postconflict era
  3. history of El Salvador - The FMLN in power, rise of the gangs, and mass emigration
  4. Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
  5. El Salvador - El Salvador in the 21st century
  6. El Salvador - The postconflict era

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