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

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — In the streets of this congested capital of winding streets and hillside warrens, shock is giving way to bitterness. Many older residents still recall with anger the United ...

A military siege imposed almost two months ago to combat gangs in Chalatenango, a region in northern El Salvador, has brought security back to the streets of the area, residents said on Wednesday.

In March 2022, El Salvador instituted emergency powers to combat the country’s powerful street gangs. At least 153 incarcerated people, who were never convicted of their alleged crimes, have died in ...

SAN SALVADOR — Eviction, for downtown street vendors here, was no surprise. It was a sentence they’d been waiting for. Maritza Trejo first heard the rumors three years ago. As a safeguard, she managed ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — After drubbing El Salvador’s gangs during a more than three-year state of emergency, President Nayib Bukele turned his attention this month to another persistent, but ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — After drubbing El Salvador’s gangs during a more than three-year state of emergency, President Nayib Bukele turned his attention this month to another persistent, but ...