Last summer, third-year law student Kristina Aiad-Toss spent two months in El Salvador interning for International Partners in Mission (IPM), a non-profit that engages in community development ...

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 ...

A weird feeling came over me as I walked among demonstrators at El Salvador’s consulate in Tucson Wednesday, the blue and white stripes of the Salvadoran flag fluttering above the crowd on East Fifth ...

A jury in El Salvador sentenced three retired high-ranking military officers to 15 years in prison for the murder of four Dutch journalists in 1982, one of the highest profile cases of the Central ...

A former member of the El Salvador military involved in the most gruesome massacre in contemporary Latin American history has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Scripps News ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Three former Salvadoran military officers were convicted by a five-person jury late Tuesday for the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the Central American ...

In recent weeks, El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, made headlines for renting out the country's mass prison to the United States. In March and April, under US President Donald Trump, the United ...

Relatives of Oscar Rosales, convicted of killing a Precinct 5 deputy constable, spoke fondly of how he protected younger family members during the Salvadoran civil war and later sent money back for ...

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele holds aloft a bill proposing the reduction of the number of municipalities on June 1, 2023. (Casa Presidencial El Salvador/Wikipedia via Courthouse News) (AP) — ...

Like Donald Trump, Nayib Bukele ran for president by vowing to use extreme methods to punish those he deems terrorists. Though the murder rate in El Salvador had already fallen by half in the three ...

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 ...