Hundreds of handcuffed Salvadoran gang members were displayed before assembled reporters on Saturday, a vivid show of President Nayib Bukele's policy of confronting them and the violent crime they are ...

Andry Hernández Romero emerged from the Salvadoran mega-prison as a household name. He's now grappling with how to heal from ...

The record from Latin America shows that soldiers in city streets produce both short-term benefits and long-term damage.

Journalist Mario Guevara says the separation from his family following his deportation has left him devastated.

More than 100,000 Salvadorans are in prison, making El Salvador the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world, as part of the "war" that Bukele initiated against gangs. The ...

An El Salvador court has acquitted five community leaders and antimining activists from Santa Marta, a municipality in the ...

Bukele’s tough-on-crime policies have earned praise from U.S. President Donald Trump, who cited El Salvador’s approach as a model during his own UNGA speech. Bukele responded with gratitude, ...

A leading rights group investigating corruption in El Salvador said Thursday it had been forced into exile due to "escalating repression" by President Nayib Bukele's administration. The Cristosal ...

The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants it sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the United ...

Andry Hernández Romero, a Venezuelan stylist deported to El Salvador by the United States, puts on a crown he had made for a festival in his hometown of Capacho Nuevo in Venezuela. When a door slammed ...

When a door slammed shut in the childhood home of Andry Hernández Romero, he wasn't just startled. He winced, recoiling from the noise. Nearly a month had passed since Hernández Romero, a 32-year-old ...