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, ...

After spending the last nine months in El Salvador, and the last several weeks traveling to impoverished areas to deliver aid in the coronavirus era, I was familiar with this kind of landscape.

Thanks to major structural reforms and stable macroeconomic policies, El Salvador has seen poverty levels decline significantly since the 1990s. But high levels of crime and violence continue to ...

A year after El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal tender, the area where the world's first cryptocurrency city was meant to be built - a circular metropolis powered by a volcano - is still dense ...

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.

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.

The government of El Salvador has formally asserted it is the U.S., not the Central American nation, that retains “legal ...

A visit to Soyapango, one of El Salvador’s most impoverished slums, shows that the Bitcoin experiment isn’t reaching those who need it most.

The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest economy in the region.

In such cases, the accused are usually commanders or high-level officials, rather than low-level officers; in El Salvador, if crimes against humanity are being committed, they most likely would ...

Paula Cuellar Cuellar’s research into abuses against women during the civil war in her native El Salvador during the 1980s has uncovered some uncomfortable truths for the Central American country.