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 ...

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 ...

Federal authorities in the United States have detained a high-profile fugitive from El Salvador, exposing gaps in how media portray certain immigration cases. Antonio Israel Lazo-Quintanilla, a ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Trump administration Tuesday designated the Barrio 18 gang as a foreign terrorist organization, joining other Latin American criminal groups receiving the designation in recent ...

Smith scooped up government debt in Nigeria, Guatemala and El Salvador to resell at a profit. The Mexican telecommunications company owned by billionaire Carlos Slim said it has bought the Guatemalan ...

Although his fate has not been officially revealed, Garcia-Manzarnarez is likely headed to El Salvador’s Center for the ...

SAN SALVADOR — The gang name was scrawled onto classroom desks and written on bathroom walls. At the school where Kilmar Abrego García spent most of his adolescence, the students all knew who was in ...