Events in the year 2024 in El Salvador.
Incumbents 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.
February 4 February – 2024 Salvadoran presidential election: Salvadorans elect their president, vice president and the Legislative Assembly. Nayib Bukele is reelected as president.
March 3 March – 2024 Salvadoran legislative election (local offices). 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.
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.
June 1 June – Nayib Bukele is inaugurated as President for a second term. 10 June – Two people are killed in a landslide caused by heavy rains in Meanguera del Golfo. 17 June – Five people are killed in landslides in Tacuba. 21 June – The death toll from torrential rains in El Salvador increases to 19 people, including at least two children.
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.
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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
Holidays
1 January — New Year's Day 28 March – Maundy Thursday 29 March – Good Friday 30 March – Easter Saturday 1 May – Labour Day 10 May – Mother's Day 17 June – Father's Day 6 August – Feast of San Salvador 15 September – Independence Day 2 November – All Saints' Day 25 December – Christmas Day
References
External links Online calendar