One of the factors leading to City Hall’s latest focus on gangs was a massive report by civil rights attorney Connie Rice. She just back from El Salvador with a study of the connections between gangs ...

FILE - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gives a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File) SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s ...

A decade ago, El Salvador recorded the highest murder rate in the world, with gangs controlling large parts of daily life.

Venezuelans spent months in a Salvadoran prison after being sent there by the U.S. Imprisoned men described torture — and ...

El Salvador's Legislative Assembly, which is dominated by President Nayib Bukele's ruling party, approved a reform which delayed the deadline for planned mass trials ...

President Donald Trump's administration will pay El Salvador $6 million to imprison for one year about 300 alleged members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, in one of the first instances of the ...

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President Nayib Bukele, who describes himself as "the world's coolest dictator," in the White House earlier this year - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Congress voted Friday to give government prosecutors two more years to hold the more than 80,000 people swept up under the state of emergency while they ...