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 ...

The government of El Salvador has formally asserted it is the U.S., not the Central American nation, that retains “legal ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Rights groups sue to free Venezuelans deported from the US and held in El Salvador The U.S. government deported more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants in March that it alleged had ties to the Tren de ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said "of course I'm not going to do it" about returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man deported to an El Salvadoran prison.

The results will have sweeping implications not just for El Salvador but also the region, where political leaders are eager to replicate what many call el milagro Bukele—the Bukele miracle.