El Salvador was once the murder capital of the world. Now under President Nayib Bukele, it’s safer than Canada. But with 2% of its population locked up -- what is the real cost of this newfound safety ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is extremely concerned about the serious deterioration of press freedom in El Salvador, which ...

One need look no further than America’s history of pretrial detention to detect the slippery slope we would be on.

El Salvador's Congress passed a law on Tuesday that levies a 30% tax on transactions from foreign donors to local ...

El Salvador has arrested an anticorruption lawyer from one of the country’s premier human rights organizations, alleging that she participated in the embezzlement of funds when she held a government p ...

The mother of a human rights lawyer arrested in El Salvador says she was able to see and speak with her daughter more than 24 hours after her arrest and declared her daughter’s innocence in what ...

(Washington, DC) – Authorities in El Salvador have arrested the prominent human rights lawyer Ruth Eleonora López, Human ...

Police in El Salvador have arrested Ruth López, a prominent human rights defender who headed the anti-corruption unit at the ...

Human rights groups have called for the immediate release of Ruth López, whose whereabouts are unknown since her arrest by police in El Salvador late Sunday.

That's why I traveled to El Salvador, leaving here on Wednesday. And I want to express my gratitude. To members of my family and members of my staff who agree that we all must be prepared to take ...