A string of brutal murders in the US has thrown a national spotlight on MS-13, a street gang that was born in LA but has roots in El Salvador. The latest was a mass murder on Monday on Long Island, ...

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CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — El director del FBI, Kash Patel, aplaudió a las autoridades mexicanas el martes por la detención y entrega de uno de los sospechosos más buscados por el FBI, un presunto líder ...

Trial opens against the leaders of MS-13, accused of rebellion and of ordering a massacre that triggered the country’s state of emergency ...

San Salvador (AFP) - Jose was 13 when he entered the violent, murky underworld of the "maras," the gangs that have stained Central America's streets in blood. Like the tens of thousands of young ...

Mexico City’s Secretariat of Citizen Security said Salvadoran José Wilfredo Ayala-Alcántara, alias El Indio de Hollywood, was arrested in the center of the city (FBI) MEXICO CITY (AP) – Police and ...

Human rights defenders criticize the process, calling it a judicial ‘shortcut’ that seeks convictions instead of establishing ...

Police and marines in Mexico’s capital on Tuesday arrested an alleged senior leader of the Mara Salvatrucha gang who is wanted in the United States for extortion, drug distribution and ...

A multi-agency crackdown on the violent Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, street gang over the last four years has metro Denver authorities hopeful they have at least temporarily disrupted its operations ...

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Chihuahua state police arrested a suspected member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang accused of being the leader of a criminal cell in Juárez, police officials said. State police arrested Roberto Carlos ...