A court in El Salvador has sentenced three youths to five years in prison and put five more on probation after they were arrested last year following the public release of a video of them making gang ...

A court in El Salvador has sentenced three minors to five years in prison and put five more on probation after they were arrested last year following the public release of a video of them making gang ...

President Nayib Bukele has brought stability and safety, but imprisoned tens of thousands. Governments face dilemmas about ...

El Salvador's former president, Mauricio Funes, who came into politics after a career as a whistleblowing journalist, died Tuesday night in Nicaragua at the age of 65. Funes spent his last years in ...

El Salvador is now the safest country in Latin America. The astonishing reduction in homicide rates is a result of President Nayib Bukele's crackdown on gangs.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador closed 2024 with a record low 114 homicides, continuing notable security gains under a second full year of a state of emergency that has given the ...

In March 2022, El Salvador’s gangs killed 62 people in hours, prompting its congress to allow a “state of exception” for ...

Nayib Bukele has turned El Salvador into a country unlike any other, blending authoritarianism with digital innovation. The ...

In March 2022, El Salvador’s gangs killed 62 people in hours, prompting its congress to allow a “state of exception” for Bukele to crack down, suspending some constitutional rights and ...

The archbishop did not mention any politicians by name—much less El Salvador’s popular president, Nayib Bukele, who pillories ...