El Salvador Launches Mass Trial of 486 MS-13 Leaders Accused of 47,000 Crimes ...

When President Nayib Bukele announced a sweeping “state of exception” in El Salvador in March 2022, he promised an end to the country’s long-standing nightmare: the grip of brutal street gangs like MS ...

In one of the most violent countries on earth, peace has broken out. In March, a truce was brokered between El Salvador's two ...

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.

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) – El Salvador’s legislature has approved a new law that would impose up to 15 years in prison on anyone who negotiates with or offers benefits to street gangs. The ...

Margarita Ramirez* knew who it was when she heard the loud thuds on her front door. She opened it a crack and saw several members of the Barrio 18 street gang which ruled her neighbourhood. “Where’s ...

At 44, Bukele has built the world’s highest imprisonment rate and scrapped presidential term limits. What comes next?

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 ...