Melvin Reyes was arrested on Sunday, March 27, the same day the government declared a state of exception, and was accused of belonging to the Mara Salvatrucha. Twenty days later, a judge ordered his ...

Bitcoiners: The New Owners of El Zonte In the last three years, the average price per square meter in one of El Salvador’s most famous beaches was $80.61 USD, more than doubling from $34.33 before ...

Leer en español The Mara Salvatrucha-13, the Revolucionarios or Sureños factions of 18th Street and other smaller gangs like the Mao-Mao, La Mirada Locos, and CODEMAR no longer operate in the streets ...

In a newly unsealed indictment, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) asserted that, as part of the accords with the Mara Salvatrucha, the current government of El Salvador protected gang members ...

Leer en español Twenty-three members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), including two leaders accused of acts of terrorism in the United States, were sent by the Donald Trump administration to El ...

After three and a half years of negotiations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) endorsed a $1.4 billion credit for El Salvador, a country without a separation of powers and which has imposed a ...

Considering the slow progress of the Salvadoran government’s compliance with the Manuela verdict, Herrera emphasizes that even if this government does not fully comply with the Court's resolution, the ...

February 26 was the last day that the investigative journalism magazine GatoEncerrado had a physical newsroom. It was one of 11 Salvadoran media outlets affected by the freezing of U.S. cooperation ...

A modern-day gold rush is poisoning ecosystems and terrorizing Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Nicaragua, as corporations and settlers invade autonomous territories and nature reserves, ...

El Salvador, a country with the highest prison population rate in the world and an overcrowding of at least 130 percent, has offered to receive inmates of any nationality who are being held in the ...

Juan Saúl’s family thought it was suspicious that the guards at Quezaltepeque would have them enter the prison. In El Salvador, after 31 months of mass arrests amid a slow trickle of releases under ...