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

In an interview, 37-year-old Maikel Olivera recounted there were “beatings 24 hours a day” and sadistic guards who warned, ...

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

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

The rights group Cristosal says it has evacuated staff from El Salvador amid pressure from President Nayib Bukele.

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 ...

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 ...