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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Prisoners are pictured at El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison - Copyright AFP Tobias SCHWARZ Prisoners are pictured at El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison ...

The Minister of Education ordered the dismissal of the director and deputy director of a public institute shown in a video shared by President Bukele. On Monday, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Security ...