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The National Anthem of El Salvador
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El Salvador National Anthem Lyrics
CHORUS

Saludemos la patria orgullosos

de hijos suyos podernos llamar;

y juremos la vida animosos,

sin descanso a su bien consagrar.

Saludemos la patria orgullosos

de hijos suyos podernos llamar;

y juremos la vida animosos,

sin descanso a su bien consagrar.

consagrar, consagrar, consagrar, consagrar.

De la paz en la dicha suprema,

siempre noble soñó El Salvador;

fue obtenerla su eterno problema,

conservarla es su gloria mayor.

Y con fe inquebrantable el camino

del progeso se afana en seguir

por llenar su grandioso destino,

conquistarse un feliz porvenir.

Le protege una férrea barrera

contra el choque de ruin deslealtad,

desde el día que en su alta bandera

con su sangre escribió: ¡LIBERTAD!

¡escribió libertad! ¡escribió libertad!

CHORUS

Libertad es su dogma,

es su guía que mil veces logró defender;

y otras tantas de audaz tiranía

rechazar el odioso poder.

Dolorosa y sangrienta es su historia,

pero excelsa y brillante a la vez;

manantial de legítima gloria,

gran lección de espartana altivez.

No desmaya en su innata bravura,

en cada hombre hay un héroe inmortal

que sabrá mantenerse a la altura

de su antiguo valor proverbial.

valor proverbial, valor proverbial.

CHORUS

Todos son abnegados y fieles

al prestigio del bélico ardor

con que siempre segaron laureles

de la patria salvando el honor.

Respetar los derechos extraños

y apoyarse en la recta razón

es para ella, sin torpes amaños

su invariable, más firme ambición.

Y en seguir esta línea se aferra

dedicando su esfuerzo tenaz,

en hacer cruda guerra a la guerra:

Su ventura se encuentra en la paz.

en la paz, en la paz.

CHORUS

English:

CHORUS

Let us salute the motherland,

Proud to be called her children.

To her well-being let us swear

Boldly and unceasingly to devote our lives.

Let us salute the motherland,

Proud to be called her children.

To her well-being let us swear

Boldly and unceasingly to devote our lives,

our lives, our lives, our lives, our lives.

Of peace enjoyed in perfect happiness,

El Salvador has always nobly dreamed.

To achieve this has been her eternal proposition,

To keep it, her greatest glory.

With inviolable faith, she eagerly follows

The way of progress

In order to fulfil her high destiny

And achieve a happy future.

A stern barrier protects her

Against the clash of vile disloyalty,

Ever since the day when her lofty banner,

In letters of blood, wrote "Freedom,"

Wrote "Freedom," wrote "Freedom."

CHORUS

Freedom is her dogma and her guide;

A thousand times she has defended it,

And as many times has she repelled

The hateful power of atrocious tyranny.

Her history has been bloody and sad,

Yet at the same time sublime and brilliant,

A source of legitimate glory

And a great lesson in Spartan pride.

Her innate bravery shall not waver:

In every man there is an immortal hero

Who knows how to maintain the level

Of the proverbial valour of old.

valour of old, valour of old.

CHORUS

All are self-denying and faithful

To the tradition of warlike ardour

With which they have always reaped fame

By saving the motherland's honour.

To respect the rights of others

And base her actions on right and justice

Is for her, without infamous intrigue,

The constant and most firm ambition.

And in following this line she persists,

Dedicating her tenacious efforts

In giving hard battle for battle;

Her happiness is found in peace.

found in peace, found in peace.

CHORUS

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=El Salvador Important Information=

Literacy: About 81% of the population can read and write. About 83% of men can read and write, and about 79.5% of women can write.
====Education: Most public schools in El Salvador are low-class and poor. The Elementary school lasts for 9 years then students move on to 3 years of secondary school. After 12 years of school, students normally move onto a University in El Salvador, which are usually High Class and Fancy.====

Elections: Every 6 years
Left-wing rebels, government forces fought for 12 years [|2002: US role in Salvador's brutal war] || Monument to civil war victims: More than 70,000 died, disappeared || Two massive quakes struck in 2001 [|2002: Salvador struggles with quake aftermath]  [|On This Day 2001: Earthquake devastates Salvador]  || Protestors demand the return of Salvadoran troops from Iraq || Former FMLN leader Schafik Handal died in 2006 [|El Salvador buries revolutionary] ||
 * = Timeline: El Salvador = ||
 * **A chronology of key events**
 * 1524** - Spanish adventurer Pedro de Alvarado conquers El Salvador. || [[image:http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif width="5" height="1"]] || [[image:http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/39695000/jpg/_39695569_els_fmln_ap.jpg width="203" height="152" caption="FMLN guerrillas fighting in San Salvador, 1989"]]
 * 1540** - Indigenous resistance finally crushed and El Salvador becomes a Spanish colony.
 * 1821** - El Salvador gains independence from Spain. Conflict ensues over territory's incorporation into Mexican empire under Creole general Agustin de Iturbide.
 * 1823** - El Salvador becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America, which also includes Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
 * Independence**
 * 1840** - El Salvador becomes fully independent following the dissolution of the United Provinces of Central America.
 * 1859-63** - President Gerardo Barrios introduces coffee growing.
 * 1932** - Some 30,000 people are killed during the suppression of a peasant uprising led by Agustine Farabundo Marti.
 * Civil war**
 * 1961** - Right-wing National Conciliation Party (PCN) comes to power after a military coup.
 * [[image:http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/39695000/jpg/_39695573_els_memor_afp.jpg width="203" height="152" caption=""Monument to Memory and Truth" inscribed with names of civil war victims"]]
 * 1969** - El Salvador attacks and fights a brief war with Honduras following the eviction of thousands of Salvadoran illegal immigrants from Honduras.
 * 1977** - Guerrilla activities by the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) intensify amid reports of increased human rights violations by government troops and death squads; General Carlos Romero elected president.
 * 1979-81** - Around 30,000 people are killed by army-backed right-wing death squads.
 * 1979** - General Romero ousted in coup by reformist officers who install a military-civilian junta, but this fails to curb army-backed political violence.
 * 1980** - Archbishop of San Salvador and human rights campaigner Oscar Romero assassinated; Jose Napoleon Duarte becomes first civilian president since 1931.
 * [[image:http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif width="5" height="1"]] || [[image:http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/39695000/jpg/_39695779_els_quake_ap.jpg width="203" height="152" caption="Rescuers recover body in aftermath of quake, Santa Tecla, El Salvador, 2001 "]]
 * 1981** - France and Mexico recognise the FMLN as legitimate political force; US continues to assist El Salvadoran government whose army continues to back right-wing death squads.
 * 1982** - Extreme right-wing National Republican Alliance (Arena) wins parliamentary elections marked by violence.
 * 1984** - Duarte wins presidential election.
 * 1986** - Duarte begins quest for negotiated settlement with FMLN.
 * 1989** - FMLN attacks intensify; another Arena candidate, Alfredo Cristiani, voted president in elections widely believed to have been rigged.
 * Peace and natural disasters**
 * 1991** - FMLN recognised as political party; government and FMLN sign UN-sponsored peace accord.
 * 1993** - Government declares amnesty for those implicated by UN-sponsored commission in human rights atrocities.
 * 1994** - Arena candidate Armando Calderon Sol elected president.
 * 1997** - FMLN makes progress in parliamentary elections; leftist Hector Silva elected mayor of San Salvador.
 * 1999** - Arena candidate Francisco Flores beats former guerrilla Facundo Guardado in presidential election.
 * [[image:http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/39966000/jpg/_39966600_marcha203.jpg width="203" height="152" caption="Protest in San Salvador against the deployment of the country's troops in Iraq"]]
 * 2001** January, February - Massive earthquakes kill 1,200 people and render another one million homeless.
 * 2002** July - US court holds two retired, US-based Salvadoran army generals responsible for civil war atrocities, orders them to compensate victims who brought case.
 * 2003** August - 360 Salvadoran troops despatched to Iraq.
 * 2003** December - El Salvador - along with Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala - agrees on a free-trade agreement with the US. The government ratifies the pact in December 2004.
 * Saca presidency**
 * 2004** March - Arena candidate Tony Saca wins presidential elections.
 * [[image:http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif width="5" height="1"]] || [[image:http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/42575000/jpg/_42575679_handal_ap.jpg width="203" height="152" caption="Guard at tomb of former FMLN leader Schafik Handal, San Salvador "]]
 * 2005** March - OAS human rights court votes to re-open an investigation into the 1981 massacre of hundreds of peasant farmers in the village of El Mozote, regarded as one of the worst atrocities of the civil war.
 * 2005** October - Thousands flee as the Ilamatepec volcano, also known as Santa Ana, erupts. Days later scores of people are killed as Tropical Storm Stan sweeps through.
 * 2006** March - El Salvador is the first Central American country to implement a regional free trade agreement with the US.
 * 2006** April - El Salvador and neighbouring Honduras inaugurate their newly-defined border. The countries fought over the disputed frontier in 1969.
 * 2007** January - 21 inmates are killed in a riot at a maximum-security prison west of the capital.
 * 2007** February - Three members of the governing Arena party are murdered in Guatemala. There are suspicions that an organised crime syndicate is behind the killings.
 * 2008** January - More than 400 judges hold a street protest over corruption allegations made against four of their colleagues.
 * 2009** January - Former FMLN rebel movement emerges as largest party in parliamentary elections, although short of a majority. Seen as preparation for presidential election in March.
 * 2009** February - Ruling party Arena wins largest number of places in local elections despite polls favouring the opposition FMLN.
 * Funes elected**
 * 2009** March - Former Marxist rebel Mauricio Funes of the FMLN party wins presidential elections, marking the first time in two decades that a leftist president has been voted in.
 * 2009** June - Mauricio Funes sworn in as president. Restores diplomatic relations with Cuba.
 * 2009** November - More than 140 people are killed and thousands left homeless in mudslides and floods.
 * 2010** June - Fourteen people killed in two attacks by suspected gang members on public buses in capital, San Salvador, on the same day.
 * 2011** September - US adds El Salvador and Belize to its list of countries considered major producers or transit routes for illegal drugs.
 * 2011** October - Torrential rains cause flooding across Central America, killing several people in El Salvador.

Timeline from "BBC News"

=Famous people in El Salvador= Jose Antonio Cortez: Pro NFL Football player Carlos Hernandez: Pro Boxer Alvaro Torres: Famous Singer Rolando Alberto Argueta: Famous Actor JR Martinez: Pro Dancer

El Salvador special attractions:
El Boqueron National Park Dixon Hill Lighthouse Lake Llopongo Watling's Castle

(Watling's Castle)

Major Holidays in El Salvador
New Years Day: January 1st Labour Day: May 1st Fiesta De San Salvador: August 3rd Fiestas Patronales: August 4th Independence Day: September 15th Dia de la Raza: October 12th New Years Eve: December 31st

Special Topic, Artists in San Salvador:
====Fernando Llort: Known to being one of El Salvador's most famous artists, Fernando Llort was born in 1949 in San Salvador and attended the University of El Salvador to major in architecture. He traveled to France after graduating from college to study in the field of philosophy then traveled to Belgium to do research in theology. After this he traveled to Louisiana in the United States to start his art career. He wanted to avoid the events that were going to start a civil revolution in San Salvador, so he brought his art work to the mountains in the north, known as La Palma. When arrived in La Palma, he started a shop that tutored people how to make art like him, it was known as "La Semilla de Dios." After retiring from this job, he moved back to San Salvador and started his own art gallery called "El arbol de Dios," which means "God's Tree." Not much after starting up this gallery, he married Estela Chacon and had three children. He is still alive today, but suffers with chronic Parkinson's disease.==== Painting by Fernando Llort