MS-13 gang leader and one of El Salvador's most wanted fugitives “El Calaco" has been arrested in Alexandria, Virginia. Ismael Enrique Mendoza, who entered the U.S. during the Obama Administration, ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month is the latest example of how special powers given to President ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told El Salvador President Bukele that deporting gang members would require attorney general ...

Trump administration allegedly agreed to abandon confidential informants protected by US government in an effort to ink CECOT ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Trump administration Tuesday designated the Barrio 18 gang as a foreign terrorist organization, ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Congress voted Friday to give government prosecutors two more years to hold the more than 80,000 people swept up under the state of emergency while they ...

El Salvador's Legislative Assembly, which is dominated by President Nayib Bukele's ruling party, approved a reform which delayed the deadline for planned mass trials ...

Tens of thousands of suspected gang members arrested under an internationally criticized crackdown in El Salvador will be detained without trial until at least 2027, after lawmakers approved an ...

After drubbing El Salvador’s gangs during a more than three-year state of emergency, President Nayib Bukele turned his attention ...

A lawyer's prolonged detention shows how El Salvador's gang emergency extends to common crimes El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month ...