El Salvador's Attorney General's Office did not clarify whether the convicted gang members were captured under the state of exception in place since March 2022 against violent gangs, or if they were ...

SAN SALVADOR, Nov 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Maria Teresa Rivera suffered a miscarriage three years ago, she was handcuffed to a hospital bed, surrounded by seven policemen, charged with ...

A Salvadoran father living in Maryland was moved out of a brutal jail in his home country after Donald Trump’s administration wrongfully deported him there, according to Democratic Senator Chris Van ...

El Salvador is drawing in foreign visitors in droves as the country finds renewed peace and security. This positive shift comes after a sustained effort to combat gang violence, with many gangsters ...

The growth of evangelical Christianity has made its way to prisons where gangsters are turning to religious devotion in an attempt to rehabilitate from their past lives. After 46 years, a family ...

On a scorching July afternoon at an urban park in El Salvador’s Apopa municipality, just north of capital city San Salvador, InSight Crime sat down with a woman and her mother. It was one of dozens of ...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador will bar the entry of foreign nationals arriving from Italy and South Korea to prevent the spread of the coronavirus that has killed more than a thousand people ...

Watch the CBS News Digital documentary "Jailed for Abortion in El Salvador" in the video player above. Abortion has been banned in El Salvador since 1998, and more than 140 women accused of ...