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Date | 9 February 2020 | ||
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Goals | Attain approval for a 109 million dollar loan from the United States | ||
Methods | Troop entry into the Legislative Assembly | ||
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The 2020 Salvadoran political crisis, commonly referred to in El Salvador as the numeronym 9F[1][2] or El Bukelazo,[3] was an incident in El Salvador on 9 February 2020. During the political crisis, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele sent 40 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army into the Legislative Assembly building in an effort to coerce politicians to approve a loan request of 109 million dollars from the United States for Bukele's security plan for the country.
The event has been condemned by foreign governments, the political opposition, and human rights organizations and is considered the first major political crisis in the country since the conclusion of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1992 and has been referred to as a coup attempt.[4]
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