Detainees in El Salvador’s prison system are cut off from the outside world and denied any meaningful ... 1.7 percent of El Salvador’s population — are crammed into spaces meant for 70,000.

El Salvador is attempting to turn the page on decades of civil war and violence from MS-13 and other street gangs that long made it one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Under Bukele ...

In El Salvador, about two hours away from the capital, up in the mountains, lies a town named Berlín. It’s a mid-sized city by Salvadoran standards, with a population of roughly 20,000.

This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch ... meaning that it should look toward the water. But Google Maps shows no roads on that side of the ...

At the time, Bukele tweeted: “El Salvador has managed to go from being the world’s most dangerous ... that in March 2024 El Salvador — population 6.36 million — held 110,000 people ...

This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous ... meaning that it should look toward the water. But Google Maps shows no roads on that side of the volcano ...

El Salvador was once known as the hemisphere’s murder capital — with one of the highest homicide rates anywhere in the world ... to maintain 2 percent of its population in prisons indefinitely ...

To accommodate its growing prison population, El Salvador constructed the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a megaprison with the capacity to hold 40,000 inmates. But overcrowding remains an ...

More than 1% of the national population is now imprisoned — including ... he showered praise on the 43-year-old El Salvador leader. And Bukele responded in kind. This week he offered to let ...