After the jailbreak, President Bernardo Arevalo dismissed his Interior Minister, Francisco Jimenez. He replaced him with ...

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

Amnesty International calls on the Salvadoran authorities to immediately and unconditionally guarantee the release of ...

When convicted murderer Teodora Vasquez was freed after more than a decade in prison, the Salvadoran single mother faced a ...

A copy of a previously secret memo between the United States and El Salvador outlining a deal to house suspected gang members at a notorious mega-prison was made public Sept. 9. The $4.67 million ...

Members of this shadow cabinet run Bukele’s campaigns and serve as liaisons with advisors, friends, contractors, and underworld figures—a clientelistic web that in many ways mirrors those forged by ...

The women’s accounts raise questions about the thoroughness of the administration’s vetting of migrants it has sent to the notorious prison. On March 15, the Trump administration loaded more than 200 ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly agreed to abandon confidential informants who were protected by the U.S. government to seal a deal with El Salvador’s president, who agreed to indefinitely ...

Marco Rubio was going to secure a deal for President Donald Trump—even if it meant betraying U.S. informants. The secretary of state made a secret agreement with the president of El Salvador to hand ...

A previously secret memo reveals a $4.67 million agreement between the United States and El Salvador to house suspected gang members. Human rights groups claim the agreement lacks protections against ...