Earlier this month, the State Department released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which provide nation-by-nation human rights analysis about the previous year. Such reports often ...

President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has brought peace to El Salvador, but the price, some Salvadorans say, has been the loss of civil liberties. “We used to be afraid of the gangs,” says one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young artist teaches children how to paint a mural in a house within the "La Campanera" neighborhood in San Salvador, El ...

The road to El Salvador’s state of emergency has been long and bloody. The small Central American nation spent decades engulfed in some of the most intense spates of violence in the Western Hemisphere ...

When Jocelyn Zelaya was caught in a hail of gunfire on the streets of San Salvador in 2017, the young mother was simply “in the wrong place, at the wrong time,” says her aunt Jackelyne. A group of ...

SAN SALVADOR — The last time I was in El Salvador, nearly a decade ago, the capital was gripped by the violence of gangs who terrified people — dictating where they could shop, work, go to school or ...