One morning in early May, armed policemen turned up at Elizabeth's modest home in rural El Salvador and arrested her son.

More than a dozen confidential reports from El Salvador’s National Civil Police obtained by InSight Crime reveal that, although “weakened” after a year and a half under a state of exception, the three ...

Regular drug seizures near Ahuachapán’s border with Guatemala suggest the department is a transit point for cocaine and marijuana. The Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) street gang is reportedly involved in ...

Nayib Bukele, the forty-year-old President of El Salvador, has been in office since 2019 and has a reputation for what is referred to as “millennial authoritarianism.” He often wears a baseball cap ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by the growing threats, judicial persecution, and financial asphyxiation measures ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The crown jewel of El Salvador’s aggressive anti-crime strategy — a mega-prison where visitation, recreation and education are not allowed — became the latest tool in ...

El Salvador is evaluating potential sites for its first nuclear power plant, aiming to supply 26% of its electricity from ...

Washington — The Trump administration is developing an asylum agreement with El Salvador's government that would allow the U.S. to deport migrants to the small Central American country who are not ...

Albert Ferrer, coach of the Barça Legends, will have a debutant in Touré Yaya. The Ivorian player spent three seasons with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Javier Bastardo covers Bitcoin and crypto news from the Global South. El Salvador unveiled its Freedom Visa program last week, ...

The world's "murder capital" has nearly one homicide an hour. An 18th Street Gang member who goes by the name Clavo, which means "nail." He is the leader of an area known as La Fosa (the Graveyard).