The Trump administration deported dozens of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador earlier this year as part of ...

People have praised El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele for being tough on gang violence. But a new investigation points to a darker truth. Surprising claims suggest that Bukele's government is ...

In the weeks since Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s mistaken deportation to El Salvador, the federal government and his family have presented divergent portraits of the man who has become the face of President ...

In November 2022, a man in El Salvador believed he had few options: be snatched off the street by police or testify against Massachusetts members of MS-13, the criminal organization responsible for ...

SANTA ANA, El Salvador — The sprawling penitentiary where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was last known to be held offers a sharp contrast to the supermax mega-prison to which he was first deported. As opposed ...

Authorities in El Salvador have arrested a prominent human rights defender amid growing concerns over the government’s repressive anti-crime tactics, suggesting policies once used to attack organized ...

When President Nayib Bukele announced a sweeping “state of exception” in El Salvador in March 2022, he promised an end to the country’s long-standing nightmare: the grip of brutal street gangs like MS ...

An MS-13 gang leader wanted for murder in his home country of El Salvador has been deported after being arrested in Foxboro, ...

Top gang leaders being sent back to El Salvador were part of a lengthy federal investigation that has amassed evidence of a corrupt pact between the Bukele government and MS-13. A memorial in Central ...

A Maryland congressman failed in an attempt to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia over the Memorial Day weekend, making him the latest in a string of Democratic lawmakers to fly to El Salvador to advocate ...

Interviews with police officers and internal police documents reveal abusive practices that have led to arbitrary detention and abuse of power in El Salvador. Their accounts provide a rare insight ...

The United States proposed sending up to 500 Venezuelan migrants with alleged ties to the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador as the two governments sought to reach an agreement on the use of the ...