A few years ago, El Tunco beach in El Salvador was crawling with gang members who robbed and extorted people at will.

Warning: Some of the depictions and images in this story are graphic. Violence is rampant in El Salvador. In the month of August alone, there were 900 homicides. That's a daily average of 30 murders ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele joined the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, warning attendees ...

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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 ...

Shakira’s five-show run in El Salvador highlights President Nayib Bukele’s push to rebrand the country through big events and ...

More than 240 members of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang, were sentenced to hundreds of years in prison in El Salvador. In a post on social media, the Central American country's ...

MS-13 gang leader and one of El Salvador's most wanted fugitives “El Calaco" has been arrested in Alexandria, Virginia. Ismael Enrique Mendoza, who entered the U.S. during the Obama Administration, ...

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