The fiercest voices of dissent against President Nayib Bukele have long feared a widespread crackdown. They weathered police ...

A man who was deported to the 'worst prison on Earth' has recalled the horrifying conditions of the maximum security prison ...

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

Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in ...

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

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's drive to consolidate his grip on power and crack down on critics and humanitarian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...