The U.S. deported 5,033 Salvadorans back to their country in the first three months of 2026 compared with 2,547 deportees in ...

The news comes a month after FRONTLINE and El Faro released a documentary on Bukele’s dealings with El Salvador’s gangs. (L-R) El Faro editor-in-chief Carlos Dada and El Faro journalists Carlos ...

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 ...

Hundreds of MS-13 gang members accused of homicides, drug and arms trafficking, and disappearances are the subject of a mass trial in El Salvador.

Human rights groups have warned that the collective prosecutions violate due process and block defendants from accessing legal counsel ...

President Richard Nixon’s advisor Daniel Patrick Moynihan once termed “benign neglect.” As it happened, however, during the 1980s and 1990s, the United States planted seeds in Central America that ...

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

After he was tortured in El Salvador and one of his family members was killed, M.G. sought refuge in the United States. The ...

By Gerardo Arbaiza and Emily Green 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, ...

Nearly 500 alleged MS-13 members, including several alleged leaders, are on trial collectively in El Salvador, accused of thousands of murders.

With nearly 500 alleged gang members on “collective” trial in front of unknown judges, human rights organisations are criticising the fairness of proceedings ...

The attorney-general says 486 suspected MS-13 members have faced trial for 47,000 crimes committed between 2012 and 2022.