Chile’s far-right President-elect José Antonio Kast visited El Salvador’s mega-prison for accused gang members ahead of a ...

Before Trump sent Kilmar Ábrego García to CECOT, Bukele arrested a U.S. citizen for his tattoos. The Biden administration ...

El Salvador's Legislative Assembly, which is dominated by President Nayib Bukele's ruling party, approved a reform which delayed the deadline for planned mass trials ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When President Nayib Bukele announced a sweeping “state of exception” in El Salvador in March 2022, he promised an end to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Salvadorans asks the Supreme Court in November to declare unconstitutional the decree that allows the state of ...

A lawyer's prolonged detention shows how El Salvador's gang emergency extends to common crimes El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month ...

One of the factors leading to City Hall’s latest focus on gangs was a massive report by civil rights attorney Connie Rice. She just back from El Salvador with a study of the connections between gangs ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador’s Congress voted Friday to give government prosecutors two more years to hold the more than 80,000 people swept up under the state of emergency while they ...

El Salvador announced prison sentences for hundreds of gang members on Sunday, with some of the convicted receiving terms of hundreds of years. In a post on X, the Attorney General's office said that ...

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His bold crackdown, backed by iron-fisted rhetoric and slick social media campaigns, won him global headlines and soaring domestic approval. Three years later, the country boasts one of the lowest ...

When President Nayib Bukele announced a sweeping “state of exception” in El Salvador in March 2022, he promised an end to the country’s long-standing nightmare: the grip of brutal street gangs like MS ...