El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown into a labor-driven model praised for reducing violence but criticized ...

When President Nayib Bukele announced a sweeping “state of exception” in El Salvador in March 2022, he promised an end to the country’s long-standing nightmare: the grip of brutal street gangs like MS ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month is the latest example of how special powers given to President ...

Facing the majestic Chinchontepec volcano a seemingly bucolic path runs past a suburb of El Salvadors capital -- but this "devils alley" is nothing but a strip of homes emptied by gang violence and ...

Since his arrival in office in June, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has stepped up the country's war on criminal gangs, an effort that is bearing fruit according to experts who point to a falling ...

Margarita Ramirez* knew who it was when she heard the loud thuds on her front door. She opened it a crack and saw several members of the Barrio 18 street gang which ruled her neighbourhood. “Where’s ...

A suspected member of the notorious MS-13 street gang was arrested this week in Hamilton, officials announced. According to a statement from an unnamed ICE spokesperson, Salvador Hernandez-Solorzano, ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele offers to house deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens, in the country’s maximum-security prison. El Salvador Made ...

His bold crackdown, backed by iron-fisted rhetoric and slick social media campaigns, won him global headlines and soaring domestic approval. Three years later, the country boasts one of the lowest ...