Costa Rica’s security minister has begun a visit to El Salvador to study the measures it has taken to reduce violence caused ...

The latest planeload of alleged gang members deported from the US to El Salvador’s “hellhole” prison includes child rapists, murderers, pimps and drug dealers, according to the White House.

The Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 gangs have some 70,000 members in El Salvador, more than 17,000 of them in jail. El Salvador registered 1,140 homicides during 2021 and 1,341 in 2020.

An ICE official has said many of those deported did not have criminal records. In February 2023, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele posted to social media a tightly edited video with dramatic ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Costa Rica's security minister arrived in El Salvador on Friday to study the measures it has taken to reduce violence caused by powerful street gangs during a now ...

TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — Costa Rica's security minister toured El Salvador's maximum-security gang prison on Friday as part of his review of the measures that El Salvador has taken to reduce ...

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El Salvador's new gang prison, where inmates are held in large cells and never allowed outside, has gained more attention in recent weeks after the U.S. government sent nearly 300 migrants ...