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 ...

At 44, Bukele has built the world’s highest imprisonment rate and scrapped presidential term limits. What comes next?

Earlier this year, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador struck an agreement with the Trump administration to accept deported migrants and detain them in mega-prisons. The deportation flights have ...

Last summer, third-year law student Kristina Aiad-Toss spent two months in El Salvador interning for International Partners in Mission (IPM), a non-profit that engages in community development ...

A former member of the El Salvador military involved in the most gruesome massacre in contemporary Latin American history has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Scripps News ...

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele holds aloft a bill proposing the reduction of the number of municipalities on June 1, 2023. (Casa Presidencial El Salvador/Wikipedia via Courthouse News) (AP) — ...

A jury in El Salvador sentenced three retired high-ranking military officers to 15 years in prison for the murder of four Dutch journalists in 1982, one of the highest profile cases of the Central ...

A court in El Salvador acquitted eight former guerrillas on September 24, 2025, of murdering a woman during the country’s civil war. The group includes five environmental activists who played a big ...

Armed men broke into a non-profit agency that works to locate missing children from El Salvador’s civil war and set fire to the archives, national fire officials said Thursday. The intruders also ...

His bold crackdown, backed by iron-fisted rhetoric and slick social media campaigns, won him global headlines and soaring domestic approval. Three years later, the country boasts one of the lowest ...