SAN JOSE, Jan 14 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele inaugurated a new maximum-security prison in nearby Costa ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele inaugurated a new maximum-security prison in Costa Rica, just weeks before Costa Rican elections focusing on crime issues. Despite the crime reduction credited to ...

El Salvador’s prison system has become one of the most talked-about in the world. This video explores what conditions look like inside and how the system operates day to day. It explains the broader ...

Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump ...

President Rodrigo Chaves completed a two-day trip to El Salvador on Friday by walking through the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the region’s largest prison built to hold gang members. The ...

Andry Hernández Romero, a Venezuelan stylist deported to El Salvador by the United States, puts on a crown he had made for a festival in his hometown of Capacho Nuevo in Venezuela. When a door slammed ...

(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 ...

A Salvadoran man facing up to 12 years behind bars after he fatally struck a 69-year-old Hicksville man on a bicycle could evade prison time after federal immigration officials deported him to his ...