President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on ...

When the MS-13 gang ran the neighborhood of Las Margaritas, one of its strongholds in El Salvador, there were rules you had to follow to stay alive.

It's been nearly a year since El Salvador's state of exception began. The effort to crack down on gangs has been hugely popular with the public there, but it has also come at a huge human cost.

In exchange for jailing more than 200 deportees, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has become a favorite of the Trump ...

Over 200 migrants who were sent to a Salvadoran prison under accusations they were gang members are the responsibility of the ...

Gang violence has turned the small central American country of El Salvador, roughly 1,500 miles south of the United States border, into the murder capital of the world. On average, there was ...

Gangs in El Salvador are using women's bodies for 'revenge and control' By Nick Paton Walsh, Barbara Arvintidis and Julia Gavarrete Video by Christian Streib. Updated 6:43 AM ET, Thu June 14, 2018 ...

El Salvador says it shares intelligence with the United States about gang members wanted by the Central American nation and provides “complete records” on them before formally requesting their ...

The president of El Salvador announced his country has accepted hundreds of Venezuelan gang members who were illegally living in the United States, as a U.S. judge moved to block deportations of ...

During the service, a pastor talks about the gangs, known in El Salvador as pandillas. He tells the congregation that in prison, God leaves one naked and opens the doors for new beginnings.

A member of the "Mara Salvatrucha" gang remains in a cell inside at CECOT (Spanish acronym for counter-terrorism confinement center) on Oct. 12 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. On February of 2023 El ...

Lawyers for Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo deny he is a gang member and say the DPS accusation hinges on a photo they found of him standing next to a man with tattoos.