No visits from wives, girlfriends or children. Sleeping arrangements are stainless-steel cots stacked several layers high in large cells packed with dozens of inmates. And roommates include some of ...

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that El Salvador’s president has agreed to accept people of any ...

For many years, Ecuador had one of the lowest homicide rates in Latin America – an indicator of low gang activity. As a result, it hadn’t developed a robust police and military response to gangs.

Peter Gietl of Blaze Media and Salvadoran journalist Ricardo Avelar debate the resolution, "President Nayib Bukele's crime-fighting policies in El Salvador provide a model for reducing violence in ...

In this episode we visit lake Coatepeque in El Salvador. This lake turns a mystical blue colour once a year and we were luck that it did so on our last day in El Salvador. UMass will pay student ...

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday (January 21, 2025). He was 65. Nicaragua’s ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. El Salvador’s former president, Mauricio Funes, who came into politics after a career as a whistleblowing ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65.

SAN SALVADOR (AFP) – El Salvador's ex-president Mauricio Funes died Tuesday at the age of 65 in Nicaragua, where he fled two years after leaving office and gained asylum following accusations of ...

Update Jan. 22, 3 am: This article has been updated to include a response from the El Salvador Bitcoin Office. El Salvador has bought 12 Bitcoin for its reserve in the past day, despite an earlier ...