SAN SALVADOR — The gang name was scrawled onto classroom desks and written on bathroom walls. At the school where Kilmar ...

A policy clash between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy for special missions, nearly scuttled the House tax and spending bill.

Human rights organizations, politicians and experts have sharply criticized a law approved by El Salvador’s Congress this ...

A new law, championed by President Nayib Bukele, is seen by advocates as an effort to stifle dissent in El Salvador.

Osiris Luna, El Salvador's prison director, has been reportedly sanctioned by the U.S. for secretly negotiating with gangs ...

Vice President Vance waded into the tug-of-war between the courts and executive branch in an interview published earlier this ...

Critics of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele call his "arbitrary" arrest of human rights advocate Ruth López a deepening sign ...

But when Trump invited Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to the White House in April, it was all smiles as they joked about mass incarceration. “Sometimes they say that we imprisoned thousands ...

Bukele’s concern sparked a “scramble” among U.S. officials to get him evidence that the migrants belonged to the transnational Tren de Aragua gang, The Times reported. His request for ...

Before his brash appearance in the Oval Office earlier this month, Nayib Bukele reportedly raised his eyebrows after three planeloads of deportees landed from the U.S. The New York Times cited ...

To accomplish this, President Donald Trump relied on El Salvador's young president, Nayib Bukele, to house the prisoners in the country's immense Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT.