The Trump administration believes cruelty in the treatment of immigrants will be a deterrent to others, but it is cruel and ...

President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has brought peace to El Salvador, but the price, some Salvadorans say, has been the loss of civil liberties. “We used to be afraid of the gangs ...

Since 1980, Save the Children in El Salvador has worked with local communities and organizations to design programs for kids. Targeted to help children from early childhood to early adulthood, our ...

Though savagely brutal, by organized crime standards, El Salvador’s gangs are poor. Big cartels had kept them out of more lucrative criminal income streams, such as shipping cocaine and fentanyl ...

In one of the most violent countries on earth, peace has broken out. In March, a truce was brokered between El Salvador's two most violent street gangs and they agreed to stop killing each other.

Before the civil war, around 55 percent of El Salvador’s population had lived in poverty, while some 110 family groups reigned over the economy. According to Manzano: “The civil war left a poor and ...

We have recently seen the beginning of the Trump administration’s desire to transport a large group of undocumented immigrants from the United States to El Salvador ... for the poor and disabled.