New U.S. policies risk perpetuating a cycle of violence and abuse that has for decades undermined the rights of Salvadorans ...

Under U.S. immigration law, a country such as El Salvador can accept someone deported from the U.S. who isn’t a citizen of ...

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 ... meaning that it should look toward the water. But Google Maps shows no roads on that side of the volcano ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Nayib Bukele vowed to build Bitcoin City on the Conchagua volcano. CoinDesk went looking for signs of construction.

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 ...

The “total fertility rate” is a coarse estimate of the number of children an average woman will bear. A population will be ...