Esperanza Martinez lost three relatives who were murdered and saw numerous bodies left in the streets of her neighborhood, a former stronghold of the notorious MS-13 street gang in El Salvador. While ...

El Salvador’s murder rate had fallen to 1.9 per 100,000 by 2024, lower than the rate in the United States, from 51 per 100,000 in 2018. Extortion all but disappeared.

A large earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Guatemala and El Salvador Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The magnitude 6.0 tremor was recorded at 4:14 a.m. at a ...

In the U.S., El Salvador's constitutional amendment was largely met with silence. Bukele is Trump's strongest ally in Latin America, a relationship cemented by an agreement reached in March for El ...

The 252 men ended in El Salvador on March 16 after the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to pay $6 million to the Central American nation to house them in a mega-prison, where ...