As a kid in rural Venezuela, Widmer Agelviz Sanguino would be awakened in the middle of the night by the screeches of nearby ...

Nayib Bukele has come to be known as the face fighting against gang violence and justice. However, a new ProPublica ...

El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month is the latest example ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador put a spotlight on President Donald Trump’s immigration ...

"We are not going to stop until we capture the last remaining terrorist,” he vowed in 2023, more than a year into his war on El Salvador's gangs. Recorded murders fell under Bukele’s watch ...

SEE ALSO: El Salvador’s (Perpetual) State of Emergency: How Bukele’s Government Overpowered Gangs López’s arrest is just the latest action targeting critics of the Bukele administration. In early May, ...

If he had been, it would have been clear by the time he left El Salvador. By age 7 or 8, children would start doing “favors” for gangs, letting a gang member know who entered or exited a ...

President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has brought peace to El Salvador, but the price, some Salvadorans say, has been the loss of civil liberties. “We used to be afraid of the gangs ...

Judge says migrants sent to El Salvador prison must get a chance to challenge their removals, contest gang allegations.

Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Trump’s plan to expel alleged gang members to El Salvador relies on the country’s 36-year-old prison director, whom U.S. officials have sanctioned for ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the Trump administration’s efforts to deport alleged gang members to El Salvador in a fiery exchange with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Tuesday.

Judge says migrants sent to El Salvador prison must get a chance to challenge their removals, contest gang allegations.