El Salvador

Separated couples, deported children, detained parents... The consequences of the Donald Trump administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown will mark the holiday season for thousands of families across the country

Bari Weiss, the new anti-woke head of CBS News, removed a ‘60 Minutes’ segment at the last minute after the White House declined to comment

Thousands of beneficiaries from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras will have to leave the country in the coming weeks

Brayan Palencia was one of more than 200 migrants sent by the United States to Nayib Bukele’s mega-prison CECOT for alleged links to criminal gangs

The former vice president of Colombia, who is a leading security experts in Latin America, analyzes the critical moment the region is facing and its key challenges

As drug production and trafficking increase across the continent, criminal groups of all sizes are diversifying their operations and increasing their firepower. Governments, meanwhile, stumble between hard-line policies and paralysis

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights demands information from the Central American leader regarding their situation

The US president signs trade agreements with Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala and Ecuador that ‘will bring prices down very quickly’ according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

Human Rights Watch documented the mistreatment of 252 migrants that the Trump administration sent to El Salvador, and who were later released and returned to Caracas

Salvador Menéndez governs the municipality of La Paz Oeste and is a member of the party through which El Salvador’s president came to power in 2019

The agency’s covert operations, which Trump confirmed last week, hark back to the coups, assassination attempts and insurgencies supported or carried out by Washington in the region during the 20th century

The attorney fears the political use of justice and the erosion of rights in the country, while personally facing a motion that could affect his career

The United States, which has designated the gang as a terrorist organization, will support polygraph interrogations to identify those responsible for the jail break

Family members of three Salvadorans who were sent from the United States on the same flights as hundreds of Venezuelans, accused without evidence of being gang members, have gone six months without any information about them

A previously unknown report alleges that the president of El Salvador cultivated a close relationship with the former US ambassador to the country and current representative in Mexico, Ronald D. Johnson, and asked him to fire a contractor who was helping to investigate senior Salvadoran officials

The families of the two hospitalized victims and the deceased face silence from the Trump administration, which is using the attack to justify its domestic military deployment

On the outskirts of San Salvador, a real estate company is threatening to evict the residents of the Primero de Diciembre neighborhood. This pattern is playing out across the country amid a rapid wave of land privatization and gentrification

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the politician describes the state of political resistance, denounces harassment, and shares her fears about living in a country without judicial guarantees

New legislative reforms join other tough measures against any suspected gang member approved during over three years of the emergency regime in El Salvador

The US government has revived the idea of deporting the Salvadoran back to his country, where he previously suffered torture

The Trump administration is concealing the identity and fate of those deported. Advocates claim the deportations are illegal because no attempt was made to return them to their countries of origin

The government has instigated a tightening of rules of conduct as part of the war against gangs

The lawyers of the detainee — who became a symbol of Trump’s deportation policy after being mistakenly deported to his country last March — fear he could be sent to Uganda or Costa Rica

The Venezuelan stylist, one of the 252 men deported by the United States to a third nation for the first time, is trying to rebuild his life after four months of detention

The annual report criticizes Germany for its laws against far-right speech and refrains from censuring Israel’s actions in Gaza

Rwanda is the latest nation to accept citizens of other nationalities amid allegations of repression and torture at Trump’s chosen destinations