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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lilac sky looms over the black sand beach. The sun has yet to beam its early, yet blistering, teeth over the nearby cliffside.

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 ...

From inside a Salvadoran mega prison, more than one hundred alleged gang members sit in rows, wrists cuffed and ankles shackled, ...

Warning: Some of the depictions and images in this story are graphic. Violence is rampant in El Salvador. In the month of August alone, there were 900 homicides. That's a daily average of 30 murders ...

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.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights announced on Friday its judgment finding that El Salvador violated human rights law by denying a woman seeking a pregnancy termination timely access to medical ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A military contingent from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to bolster a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police to help fight gangs that killed thousands of people ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — Costa Rica’s ...