Xiomara Castro imposed a state of emergency similar to El Salvador’s, restricting rights and deploying the army in the ...

Years of campaigning led to the release of 81 women imprisoned under the country’s strict reproductive laws, but the suspension of civil rights by President Nayib Bukele is fuelling a new wave of crim ...

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 ...

Emergency legislation is being used in increasingly repressive ways to grab back land granted during the civil war, say campaigners ...

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 few years ago, El Tunco beach in El Salvador was crawling with gang members who robbed and extorted people at will.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele joined the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, warning attendees that violent gang members in his country have a documented history of ...

El Salvador’s Congress, controlled by President Nayib Bukele, voted Friday to extend the detention of tens of thousands of alleged gang members until at least 2027, giving prosecutors time to prepare ...

Marvin Abel Hernandez Palacios, a member of the infamous MS-13 gang, has been sentenced to a record 1,335 years in prison by Salvadoran prosecutors. He has been found guilty of numerous horrific ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...