Prosecutors say the charges against alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, or MS-13, span more than 47,000 crimes committed between 2012 and 2022, including a weekend that was El Salvador‘s ...

SAN SALVADOR, April 23 (Reuters) - From inside a Salvadoran mega prison, more than one hundred alleged gang members sit in rows, wrists cuffed and ankles shackled, to watch court proceedings on a ...

Thousands of Salvadoran soldiers and police officers on Tuesday surrounded the central agricultural region of Cabanas – home to some 150,000 people – as part of President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on ...

In a Salvadoran prison, young women from rival gangs learn to co-exist and prepare for life beyond penitentiary walls.

The video examines El Salvador’s massive CECOT prison and President Nayib Bukele’s gang crackdown, which made the country ...

Hundreds of alleged members of the Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) have gone on trial collectively in El Salvador. Prosecutors allege hundreds of suspected MS-13 members committed ...

El Salvador has opened its largest mass trial to date, prosecuting 486 alleged MS-13 members for more than 47,000 crimes committed over a decade. The unprecedented proceedings, conducted partly via ...

Beneath a volcano in El Salvador lies a secretive mega-prison where the only way out, according to the justice minister, is in a coffin. Known as CECOT — the Spanish language acronym for Terrorism ...

At this point, many in the world have heard of the brutality of El Salvador’s prisons. A year ago, my wife, Ruth López, vanished into one. Ruth is a lawyer who directed the Ant ...

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, ...