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 ...

A former member of the El Salvador military involved in the most gruesome massacre in contemporary Latin American history has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Scripps News ...

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

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

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Three former El Salvador military officers were given lengthy prison sentences late Thursday over the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the country’s civil war ...

Last summer, third-year law student Kristina Aiad-Toss spent two months in El Salvador interning for International Partners in Mission (IPM), a non-profit that engages in community development ...

Relatives of Oscar Rosales, convicted of killing a Precinct 5 deputy constable, spoke fondly of how he protected younger family members during the Salvadoran civil war and later sent money back for ...

Tim highlights the new center-left coalition in Salvadoran politics, which emerged after two FMLN deputies helped push through last year's controversial budget. Tim's El Salvador Blog links to a ...

Legislation passed in 2017 put a halt to industrial mining, but as the central American country goes to the polls, the government has hinted at its return ...

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 ...

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 ...