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

Warning: Some of the depictions and images in this story are graphic. Violence is rampant in El Salvador. In the month of August alone, there were 900 homicides. That's a daily average of 30 murders ...

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

El Salvador had more homicides in March than any other single month in a decade, a dark milestone that some attribute to the collapse of a gang truce and one that could mark a trend of greater ...

Commenting on a recent news report about the fear of Mexican drug cartel violence spreading to El Salvador, Tim writes: “If drug cartels were to establish greater operations in El Salvador, beyond the ...

TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — Costa Rica’s security minister toured El Salvador’s maximum-security gang prison on Friday as part of his review of the measures that El Salvador has taken to reduce ...

Before he became arguably the most popular head of state in the world, Nayib Bukele was an adman. The President of El Salvador has branded himself the “world’s coolest dictator” and a “philosopher ...

Since 2014, more than 250,000 unaccompanied minors have made a dangerous journey to the U.S. from Central America, with 40 percent coming from El Salvador, where jobs are scarce and gangs are rampant.

The government of President Nayib Bukele continued to remove checks on executive power and increased its repression of human rights defenders and critics. In July, the Legislative Assembly, controlled ...