Chile’s far-right President-elect José Antonio Kast visited El Salvador’s mega-prison for accused gang members ahead of a ...

An alleged MS-13 thug accused of slaying five rival gang members in his native El Salvador was busted by ICE in Virginia, ...

The Central American country is under a state of emergency after a massacre of police officers that calls into question the ...

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 ...

FILE - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gives a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File) SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s ...

The small Central American nation of El Salvador has of late assumed an outsize role in the western hemisphere. With a ...

El Salvador announced prison sentences for hundreds of gang members on Sunday, with some of the convicted receiving terms of hundreds of years. In a post on X, the Attorney General's office said that ...

El Salvador's president has threatened to stop providing food for imprisoned members of street gangs. President Nayib Bukele said on Tuesday that if the gangs "unleash a wave of crimes, we are going ...

Days before we ran interviews with gang leaders describing their alleged ties to Nayib Bukele’s government, we left the country to avoid arrest. We fear our exile will never endThis story, republished ...

One of the factors leading to City Hall’s latest focus on gangs was a massive report by civil rights attorney Connie Rice. She just back from El Salvador with a study of the connections between gangs ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Congress voted Friday to give government prosecutors two more years to hold the more than 80,000 people swept up under the state of emergency while they ...