Senator Chris Van Hollen said that El Salvador had denied his request to release a US resident whose wrongful deportation has ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele visited the White House, Monday, marking the first visit by a Latin American head of state during Trump’s second term. The presidents were joined by cabinet members ...

Last month, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Maryland father, was arrested in the U.S. and deported to El Salvador along with hundreds of other men who are accused of being gang members. Two weeks ...

El Salvador announced on Sunday prison sentences for hundreds of convicted gang members, with some of them receiving ...

He remains very popular in the country because of the "war" he declared on gangs that resulted in a drastic reduction in the ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House Monday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters. “They will discuss El Salvador’s partnership on ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves took another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, who came to power in 2019 and is now serving a second term which critics have called ...

A leading rights group investigating corruption in El Salvador said Thursday it had been forced into exile due to "escalating repression" by President Nayib Bukele's administration. The Cristosal ...

On March 27, 2022, on the heels of a weekend marked by dozens of gang-related murders, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his legislature plunged the country into a régimen de excepción — a ...

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