For decades, El Salvador was a country that people fled — escaping gang violence, poverty, natural disasters and civil wars.

The president of El Salvador announced his country has accepted hundreds of Venezuelan gang members who were illegally living in the United States, as a U.S. judge moved to block deportations of ...

Cristosal, wary of newly restrictive laws and the arrest of one of its staffers, follows dozens of journalists, lawyers and rights advocates into exile.

El Salvador's most prominent human rights group says it's been forced into exile, citing threats and harassment from the ...

The biggest reason for this is a sharp drop in violence during Mr Bukele’s presidency. In 2015 El Salvador had the highest murder rate in the world, 106 per 100,000 people (see chart).

A Verdant Three-Bedroom Home in El Salvador $249,000. This low-slung villa compound is tucked into a lushly landscaped tropical garden, steps from a private beach and beach club on the Pacific ...

Inside the growing cult of El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, Latin America’s political star. ... “The aesthetics of Bukelismo are definitely taking the region by storm,” said Will Freeman, ...

The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest economy in the region. With the global recession, real GDP contracted in 2009 and economic growth has ...

Homicide levels in El Salvador have slowly increased since the middle of 2013 and have reached levels similar to those of 2011. The country's gang truce is dead and President Sanchez Ceren announced ...

The region’s drought-prone Dry Corridor, in particular, is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the disasters resulting from a changing climate, and it blankets El Salvador.

El Salvador’s recognition of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in August 2018 was the third such change in Latin America following the end of the informal truce that had restrained the PRC’s ...