El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown ...

In 2021, President Bukele initiated a sweeping crackdown on gangs and crime. In a matter of weeks, 87,000 people were ...

Last month, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Maryland father, was arrested in the U.S. and deported to El Salvador along with hundreds of other men who are accused of being gang members. Two weeks ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele visited the White House, Monday, marking the first visit by a Latin American head of state during Trump’s second term. The presidents were joined by cabinet members ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves took another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled ...

In an X post, Bukele challenged the view that imprisonment fails to curb crime. “A strong police force and a tough, well-managed prison system are the necessary first steps in transforming a hellscape ...

Prosecutors in El Salvador are investigating alleged secret negotiations between government officials and a prominent organized crime gang that has long terrorized the Central American nation. Members ...

The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants it sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the United ...