The government of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, known for a harsh crackdown on street gangs and dissent, is holding ...

A Cristosal report documents 245 cases of political persecution in El Salvador, showing arrests, pretrial detention and vicarious pressure on families in places like Nahuizalco.

Trump administration accused Luis Muñoz Pinto of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang. Now living in Colombia he hopes to clear his name and study engineering in the US ...

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 ...

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, ...

President Trump said on Sunday he would “love” to send American inmates to El Salvador’s mega-prison but first needs to check if it’s legal.

“They kept hitting me in the stomach, and when I tried to breathe, I started to choke on the blood. My cellmates shouted for help, saying they were killing us, but the officers said they just wanted ...

SAN SALVADOR -- Chile's far-right President-elect José Antonio Kast visited El Salvador's mega-prison for accused gang members on Friday ahead of a meeting with President Nayib Bukele to discuss ...

A federal appeals court judge has dismissed a misconduct complaint filed by the Justice Department against a judge who clashed with President Donald Trump’s administration over deportations to a ...

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 ...