The Twitter/X bio of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, as of December 2025, reads “Philosopher King.” In the past, it ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton is heaping praise on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's leadership for the latter's work addressing gang violence after a trip to the Central American nation ...

On a sunny March afternoon in Sonsonate, El Salvador, five gang members pulled Juan Vicente into a narrow alleyway. Vicente grew up around Los Angeles and had just been deported to El Salvador several ...

A lilac sky looms over the black sand beach. The sun has yet to beam its early, yet blistering, teeth over the nearby cliffside. Tropical birds chirp in frenzied unison to greet the day, as the ...

TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — Costa Rica's security minister toured El Salvador's maximum-security gang prison on Friday as part of his review of the measures that El Salvador has taken to reduce ...

(SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador) — It was the middle of the night in El Salvador and officers, armed with masks and body armor, were asking men they had arrested to remove their shirts before they brought ...

This story is part of a Special Report called “Far From Home,” a collaboration between the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, The GroundTruth Project, and Fusion. As seven-year-old ...

Since 2014, more than 250,000 unaccompanied minors have made a dangerous journey to the U.S. from Central America, with 40 percent coming from El Salvador, where jobs are scarce and gangs are rampant.

San Pedro Perulapán is one of the most violent towns in El Salvador San Pedro Perulapán, in El Salvador, is one of the most violent towns in one of the world’s most violent countries. The situation in ...

TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — Costa Rica’s security minister toured El Salvador’s maximum-security gang prison on Friday as part of his review of the measures that El Salvador has taken to reduce ...