Federal prosecutors are seeking to drop narco-terrorism charges against a man they have alleged is one of the gang’s leaders.

El Salvador’s top human rights organization, Cristosal, says it is leaving the country after harassment and legal threats by ...

Having established a dictatorship in El Salvador under the pretext of a “war on gangs,” Bukele has stepped up operations to ...

With the gangs’ severely weakened by the government’s own accounts, human rights organizations in El Salvador – like Cristosal where López worked – and from abroad like the Inter-American ...

El Salvador’s new gang prison, where inmates are held in large cells and never allowed outside, has gained more attention in recent weeks after the U.S. government sent nearly 300 migrants ...

With the gangs’ severely weakened by the government’s own accounts, human rights organizations in El Salvador – like Cristosal where López worked – and from abroad like the Inter-American ...

In this handout picture provided by the Salvadoran presidency, inmates wait as 2,000 detainees are moved to mega- prison Terrorist Confinement Centre (CECOT) on June 11, 2024 in Tecoluca, El Salvador.

A child, victim of the earthquake, receives a plate of food while others wait in line on February 15, 2001, in Verapaz, El Salvador. [Getty Images] More than 1,000 minors have been convicted of ...

News World US plans to designate Haiti gangs as foreign terrorists, opening way to use El Salvador prison April 18, 2025 Updated Sat., April 19, 2025 at 8:41 p.m. Protests on March 19 in Port-au ...

Not long before the pandemic touched down in El Salvador, which over the years has been the Central American country hardest hit by gang violence, the nation was inching toward a precarious peace. In ...