The proceedings against 485 members of the international criminal Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang on charges that include ...

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Flavio Bolsonaro among presidential hopefuls citing El Salvador Right-wing standard bearers visit CECOT max-security prison New governments across region embrace hard-line security policies SAO ...

El Tunco beach has become the symbol of a tourism revival in El Salvador, which has shed its gangland image by dint of mass arrests of suspected gang members ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13 gang, attend an open hearing by El Salvador prosecutors against 486 members of ...

Under the Salvadoran constitution, such a move could drastically limit freedom of association, movement, and include to mobilization of thousands of reserve military officers along with thousands more ...

(Washington, DC) – Police in El Salvador arbitrarily arrested two human rights defenders who were peacefully protesting a mass eviction and have been holding them in pretrial detention since the end ...

ICE arrested Cristian Alberto Rivas-Escalante, 29, in Marco Island, Florida, on June 11. Rivas-Escalante, an alleged associate of the 18th Street Gang, had a warrant for his arrest in El Salvador. He ...

A three-month mass trial of hundreds of alleged gang members of MS-13 wrapped up Wednesday in El Salvador, with prosecutors ...