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

This week’s White House meeting between President Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele offered a crucial opportunity. It should have marked an era of renewed US engagement with our ...

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 ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he experienced “psychological torture,” physical abuse and alarming conditions while housed in El ...

Since Mr. Bukele ordered mass arrests in 2022, El Salvador has become one of the safest countries in the region, earning him broad support from Salvadorans in a landslide re-election last year.

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., April 14, 2025.

Salvadoran journalist, Mario Guevara, arrested covering a June protest, is still being held by ICE despite judge's order to ...

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 ...

El Salvador’s bitcoin project risks the country’s economy and the IMF’s credibility. ... Populist leaders in the region have consolidated power and clamped down on press freedom, ...

El Salvador’s emergence as a political stage amid Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wrongful deportation comes after years of Republicans steadily strengthening ties with Nayib Bukele's country.

More than 100 civil society organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for ...