Editing El Salvador (section)

=== Post-war (1992–2019) ===
The [[Chapultepec Peace Accords]] mandated reductions in the size of the army, and the dissolution of the National Police, the Treasury Police, the National Guard and the Civilian Defence, a paramilitary group. A new Civil Police was to be organized. Judicial immunity for crimes committed by the armed forces ended; the government agreed to submit to the recommendations of a [[Commission on the Truth for El Salvador]] ''(Comisión de la Verdad Para El Salvador)'', which would "investigate serious acts of violence occurring since 1980, and the nature and effects of the violence, and...recommend methods of promoting national reconciliation". In 1993 the Commission delivered its findings reporting human rights violations on both sides of the conflict.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Betancur |first1=Belisario |last2=Planchart |first2=Reinaldo Figueredo |last3=Buergenthal |first3=Thomas |title=From Madness to Hope: The 12-Year War in El Salvador: Report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador |url=https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/file/ElSalvador-Report.pdf |website=United States Institute for Peace |publisher=The Commission on the Truth for El Salvador |access-date=17 March 2020 |date=1 January 1993 |archive-date=1 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201122202/http://www.usip.org/files/file/ElSalvador-Report.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Five days later the Salvadoran legislature passed an amnesty law for all acts of violence during the period.

From 1989 until 2004, Salvadorans favoured the [[Nationalist Republican Alliance]] (ARENA), voting in ARENA presidents in every election ([[Alfredo Cristiani]], [[Armando Calderón Sol]], [[Francisco Flores Pérez]], [[Antonio Saca]]) until 2009. The unsuccessful attempts of the left-wing party to win presidential elections led to its selection of a journalist rather than a former guerrilla leader as a candidate. On 15 March 2009, [[Mauricio Funes]], a television figure, became the first president from the FMLN. He was inaugurated on 1 June 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jun-02-fg-el-salvador-funes2-story.html|title=El Salvador elects its first leftist president, TV host Mauricio Funes|date=2 June 2009|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=11 April 2021|archive-date=11 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411193343/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jun-02-fg-el-salvador-funes2-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> One focus of the Funes government has been revealing the alleged corruption from the past government.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.diariocolatino.com/es/20090612/nacionales/67865/ |title=Funes saca a luz corrupción en gobiernos de ARENA |publisher=Diario CoLatino |year=2009 |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706065656/http://www.diariocolatino.com/es/20090612/nacionales/67865/ |archive-date=6 July 2014 }}</ref>
[[File: XXIV Conmemoración de los Acuerdos de Paz. (23793774503).jpg|thumb|The signatories of the Peace Agreements. on its XXIV anniversary; The agreements led to a series of transformations that marked a before and after in national history.]]
ARENA formally expelled Saca from the party in December 2009. With 12 loyalists in the National Assembly, Saca established his own party, the [[Grand Alliance for National Unity]] (GANA), and entered into a tactical legislative alliance with the FMLN.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} After three years in office, with Saca's GANA party providing the FMLN with a legislative majority, Funes had not taken action to either investigate or to bring corrupt former officials to justice.

Economic reforms since the early 1990s brought major benefits in terms of improved social conditions, diversification of the export sector, and access to international financial markets at investment grade level. Crime remains a major problem for the investment climate. Early in the new millennium, El Salvador's government created the Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales&nbsp;— the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN)&nbsp;— in response to climate change concerns.<ref name="cdkn.org">{{cite web |title=El Salvador builds resilience in the face of a stormy future |url=https://cdkn.org/2013/12/el-salvador-builds-resilience-in-face-of-a-stormy-future/?loclang=en_gb |website=Climate & Development Knowledge Network |access-date=17 March 2020 |date=24 December 2013 |archive-date=10 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110224503/https://cdkn.org/2013/12/el-salvador-builds-resilience-in-face-of-a-stormy-future/?loclang=en_gb |url-status=live }}</ref>

In March 2014, former FMLN guerrilla leader Cerén narrowly won the [[2014 Salvadoran presidential election|election]]. He was sworn in as president on 31 May 2014. He was the first former guerrilla to become the president of El Salvador.<ref name=bbcnews>{{cite web |title=Ex-rebel becomes El Salvador leader |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-27568032 |website=BBC News |date=1 June 2014 |access-date=26 March 2021 |archive-date=6 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706185233/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-27568032 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In October 2017, an El Salvador court ruled that former president Funes and one of his sons had illegally enriched themselves. Funes had sought asylum in Nicaragua in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=Salvador court finds ex-president Funes illegally enriched himself |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-el-salvador-corruption-idUSKBN1DS2VP |website=Reuters |date=28 November 2017 |access-date=11 April 2021 |archive-date=11 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411191507/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-el-salvador-corruption-idUSKBN1DS2VP |url-status=live }}</ref>

In September 2018, former president Saca was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to diverting more than US$300 million in state funds to his own businesses and third parties.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Papachristou |first1=Lucy |title=Salvadoran Ex-President Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison |url=https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8578-salvadoran-ex-president-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison |website=www.occrp.org |access-date=11 April 2021 |archive-date=11 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411191507/https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8578-salvadoran-ex-president-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison |url-status=live }}</ref>