One morning in early May, armed policemen turned up at Elizabeth's modest home in rural El Salvador and arrested her son.
As with Nicaragua a decade ago, there is a hidden explanation for El Salvador’s improved security situation under Bukele.
After the jailbreak, President Bernardo Arevalo dismissed his Interior Minister, Francisco Jimenez. He replaced him with ...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by the growing threats, judicial persecution, and financial asphyxiation measures ...
A New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and air traffic control communications found that U.S. military planes began ...
El Salvador once had the highest murder rate in the world - now it’s one of the safest. But that transformation came at a ...
We look at the other part of Jeff Sessions’ order: people facing gang violence also won’t qualify for asylum. This mainly affects Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The US Agency for International ...
Members of this shadow cabinet run Bukele’s campaigns and serve as liaisons with advisors, friends, contractors, and underworld figures—a clientelistic web that in many ways mirrors those forged by ...
Commenting on a recent news report about the fear of Mexican drug cartel violence spreading to El Salvador, Tim writes: “If drug cartels were to establish greater operations in El Salvador, beyond the ...
When residents learned of plans for a $200-million solar energy plant to mine bitcoin in their village in northern El ...
The war-torn history of Arturo Menéndez’s native country, El Salvador, has yet to defeat his passion for cinematic arts. One of his short films, “Parávolar,” started garnering attention for the young ...
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes El Salvador’s passage of legislation to protect, aid and offer durable solutions to people internally displaced in the Central American nation due to violence ...