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 ...

Guatemala has now followed Washington's lead by classifying Barrio 18, an El Salvador-based gang with a reputation for ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly agreed to abandon confidential informants who were protected by the U.S. government to seal a deal with El Salvador’s president, who agreed to indefinitely ...

Twenty members of a gang designated a "foreign terrorist organization" by the United States have escaped from detention in ...

Guatemala has passed a new anti-gang law to combat groups now considered terrorist organizations. The law designates the Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha gangs as terrorist groups, increases ...

Guatemala's recent Barrio 18 prison escape led to 23 guard arrests and calls for FBI aid. Learn how this gang breakout raises ...

Members of the MS-13 gang used the Angeles National Forest and other isolated mountain areas as the locale for a series of ...

Lawyers for the alleged MS-13 gang member say that the government has chosen a course calculated to inflict maximum hardship.

The members of MS-13 joined the notorious gang for kinship and protection in an unfamiliar country — and getting into MS-13 isn’t all that different from getting hazed into a college fraternity, a ...