LIFE Film Festival (Latina Independent Film Extravaganza) returns to Los Angeles this week for its 13th year. Founded by “Real Women Have Curves” playwright Josefina López, the festival will screen ...

An intimate look at life inside one of California’s largest ICE detention centers – told by the people who lived it.

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 ...

A "60 Minutes" segment on El Salvador's notorious megaprison that was pulled by CBS last month finally aired on Sunday, Jan. 18, weeks after the network pulled the segment just hours before its ...

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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has never shied away from provocative self-branding. At one point, according to the Harvard Business Review, his X bio famously read “the world’s coolest dictator,” ...

Four years ago, El Salvador started its ambitious Bitcoin adoption strategy. But in 2025, that plan came to a head with the International Monetary Fund. El Salvador, the first country in the world to ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) praised El Salvador's stronger-than-expected economic growth in a statement on Monday. The update notably did not include previous IMF suggestions that El ...

Tom Ignudo is a digital content producer at CBS Philadelphia. Before he joined CBS Philadelphia in 2021, Tom covered high school and college sports for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He covers breaking ...

A man who officials said fled to El Salvador after being charged with sexually assaulting three girls in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has been arrested and extradited back to the United States to face ...

Along El Salvador’s Pacific coast, a string of once-quiet surf towns now pulses with activity. President Nayib Bukele’s Surf City program has transformed these areas into a national showcase, drawing ...

Once known as one of the most dangerous detention centers in the murder capital of the world, El Salvador’s sprawling La Esperanza prison now sits at the center of an international debate over crime, ...