Drug gangs have turned the South American country into one of the most dangerous in the region and the world’s leading ...

Two men convicted in a deadly gang-related ambush in the California city of Stockton have been sentenced to decades in state prison.

This is the new American Century, one in which America no longer forces change through aggressive intervention and costly ...

SAN JOSE — At age 22, Salvador Mexicano’s life has centered on gangs, poverty, violence and prison.

Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are trying to prove that criminal charges against him are vindictive and should be dismissed. The Salvadoran citizen was mistakenly deported last year in ...

A few years ago, El Tunco beach in El Salvador was crawling with gang members who robbed and extorted people at will.Suspected gang members are held incommunicado and have in some cases, been ...

Between waves and postcard sunsets, foreign tourists enjoy El Tunco beach in El Salvador, once overrun by gang members. They ...

El Salvador's leading abortion rights NGO closes after 20 years amid Bukele's foreign agents law, highlighting civil society crackdowns and regional activism shifts.

Call it a Renaissance in recycling. A massive mural made of plastic bottle caps depicts Latin America’s version of the famed Mona Lisa, ...

A new Mona Lisa has appeared in El Salvador. But this isn’t Leonardo da Vinci’s original. Instead, it seems a local twist has ...

Mona Lisa mural is in Zacamil, in the Mejicanos suburb of San Salvador -- an area that was once controlled by violent gangs, whose activity has been curbed by President Nayib Bukele's controversial ...

The mayor of Medellin on Friday touted the construction of a mega-prison in his city, Colombia's second-largest, becoming the latest Latin American leader to mimic the iron-fisted approach to gang ...