For decades, El Salvador was a country that people fled — escaping gang violence, poverty, natural disasters and civil wars.

El Salvador faces a great opportunity to accelerate poverty reduction. Although poverty rates have declined significantly over the past two decades, extreme poverty remains a challenge: by 2023, ...

L.A., El Salvador are mirror images of poverty. Thousands of miles separate two cities where injustice looks the same. ... At the time there were no known cases of COVID-19 in this area, ...

Thanks to major structural reforms and stable macroeconomic policies, El Salvador has seen poverty levels decline significantly since the 1990s. ... US$150 million loan) was approved and aims at ...

The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest economy in the region. With the global recession, real GDP contracted in 2009 and economic growth has ...

Inside El Salvador’s battle with violence, poverty, and U.S. policy. As migrants flee the decimated Central American nation, changes in the United States could send thousands back into the chaos.

According to government figures, 27 percent of El Salvador’s population lived below the national income poverty line in 2023, an increase of 0.4 percent from 2022. Nearly 9 percent of the ...

A few days before this writing, El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele announced an immense police operation. San Salvador’s satellite city of Soyapango was surrounded by 8,500 military and 1,500 police ...

Several people sit at the entrance of a store guarded by a military man in San Antonio Los Ranchos, El Salvador, on Monday, March 25, 2024. ... (being from a poor area).

Eight months since El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced a war on gangs, an estimated 2% of the country’s adult population – or roughly 100,000 people – are now behind bars.