One morning in early May, armed policemen turned up at Elizabeth's modest home in rural El Salvador and arrested her son.

After the jailbreak, President Bernardo Arevalo dismissed his Interior Minister, Francisco Jimenez. He replaced him with ...

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 ...

El Salvador's president has threatened to stop providing food for imprisoned members of street gangs. President Nayib Bukele said on Tuesday that if the gangs "unleash a wave of crimes, we are going ...

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 ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Trump administration Tuesday designated the Barrio 18 gang as a foreign terrorist organization, joining other Latin American criminal groups receiving the designation in recent ...