Since 2022, the country has been under a state of emergency, during which time 83,000 arrests were made, dropping the murder ...

Carter’s administration rejected Saint Óscar Romero’s pleas not to provide military aid to the Salvadoran junta before he was assassinated.

El Salvador closed 2024 with a record low 114 homicides, continuing notable security gains under a second full year of a ...

With prisoners crammed into tiny cells by the dozen, social distancing is impossible and poor medical facilities ... not taken yet taken any such steps. El Salvador has been grappling with gang ...

making El Salvador a new digital banana republic in which Bitcoin enthusiasts manipulate a poor country’s strong man to extract resources without accountability back home. The U.S. must toughen ...

Since Bukele won the presidency in 2019, the economy has grown less than those of regional neighbors Guatemala and Nicaragua while Honduras overtook El ... San Salvador is seeing soaring home ...