Onlookers gather at the scene of a homicide in downtown San Salvador, El Salvador’s capital ... In the vacuum of weak governance and poverty in their home country, gang members reproduced ...
As a result of the ongoing mass arrests, El Salvador now has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The proportion of its population that El Salvador incarcerates is more than triple that of the ...
Bukele, who has long been an advocate of using tourism to boost the economy, saw surfing as a way to improve El Salvador’s image abroad. With a reputation historically shaped by high crime rates and ...
Before the civil war, around 55 percent of El Salvador’s population had lived in poverty, while some 110 family groups reigned over the economy. According to Manzano: “The civil war left a poor and ...
The administration won’t identify those moved — or say whether the Alien Enemies Act, which briefly sped up some deportations ...
El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. The runoff from a gold mine upstream, already shuttered two decades ago, has ...
American crypto enthusiasts have followed a similar script: making El Salvador a new digital banana republic in which Bitcoin enthusiasts manipulate a poor country’s strong man to extract ...
El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish ... misfortune, pollution, poverty," said anti-mining activist Vidalina Morales, who joined Funes and others for the San Sebastian river analysis.