El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown ...

When President Nayib Bukele announced a sweeping “state of exception” in El Salvador in March 2022, he promised an end to the country’s long-standing nightmare: the grip of brutal street gangs like MS ...

In 2021, President Bukele initiated a sweeping crackdown on gangs and crime. In a matter of weeks, 87,000 people were ...

Facing the majestic Chinchontepec volcano a seemingly bucolic path runs past a suburb of El Salvadors capital -- but this "devils alley" is nothing but a strip of homes emptied by gang violence and ...

Margarita Ramirez* knew who it was when she heard the loud thuds on her front door. She opened it a crack and saw several members of the Barrio 18 street gang which ruled her neighbourhood. “Where’s ...

A suspected member of the notorious MS-13 street gang was arrested this week in Hamilton, officials announced. According to a statement from an unnamed ICE spokesperson, Salvador Hernandez-Solorzano, ...

Smith scooped up government debt in Nigeria, Guatemala and El Salvador to resell at a profit. The Mexican telecommunications company owned by billionaire Carlos Slim said it has bought the Guatemalan ...

WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a Salvadoran gangbanger who is wanted for crimes in his home country after a wild car chase in Virginia earlier this month — which ended ...

His bold crackdown, backed by iron-fisted rhetoric and slick social media campaigns, won him global headlines and soaring domestic approval. Three years later, the country boasts one of the lowest ...