El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown ...

On a sunny March afternoon in Sonsonate, El Salvador, five gang members pulled Juan Vicente into a narrow alleyway. Vicente grew up around Los Angeles and had just been deported to El Salvador several ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton is heaping praise on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's leadership for the latter's work addressing gang violence after a trip to the Central American nation ...

El Salvador had more homicides in March than any other single month in a decade, a dark milestone that some attribute to the collapse of a gang truce and one that could mark a trend of greater ...

TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — Costa Rica's security minister toured El Salvador's maximum-security gang prison on Friday as part of his review of the measures that El Salvador has taken to reduce ...

(SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador) — It was the middle of the night in El Salvador and officers, armed with masks and body armor, were asking men they had arrested to remove their shirts before they brought ...

A lilac sky looms over the black sand beach. The sun has yet to beam its early, yet blistering, teeth over the nearby cliffside. Tropical birds chirp in frenzied unison to greet the day, as the ...

This story is part of a Special Report called “Far From Home,” a collaboration between the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, The GroundTruth Project, and Fusion. As seven-year-old ...

San Pedro Perulapán is one of the most violent towns in El Salvador San Pedro Perulapán, in El Salvador, is one of the most violent towns in one of the world’s most violent countries. The situation in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — Costa Rica’s ...

TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — Costa Rica’s security minister toured El Salvador’s maximum-security gang prison on Friday as part of his review of the measures that El Salvador has taken to reduce ...