President Nayib Bukele claims that years of gang violence have left 80,000 people missing. However, the Legislative Assembly has rejected a proposed bill centered around the search for the disappeared, leaving families feeling helpless
The 170,000 beneficiaries can remain in the United States, but uncertainty persists as the government says it will make a decision ‘at the appropriate time’
On September 9, Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador expires and the Trump administration has not proposed renewing it
Around 170,000 Salvadorans will lose protection from deportation on September 9
Chronic kidney disease was long thought to be an old person’s malady. Now it’s a multinational health crisis among young Latino migrants who once worked on Central American farms and sugar plantations. To avoid expensive treatment in the United States, many return home, only to discover limited care for the deadly illness
The agreement is moving forward quickly, but it will need to align joint operations with each country’s legislation and secure US congressional approval of the necessary budget
As Trump and the Supreme Court dismantle the system that protected millions of immigrant families who fled danger, children wonder: Will we be next
An indictment by Salvadoran prosecutors reveals the discovery of more than 20 clandestine graves in Nuevo Cuscatlán, the town the president once held up as a model of public safety during his time as mayor
Sweden will pay over $35 million a year to Estonia to house hundreds of its prisoners. Other countries on the continent are considering similar deals
Eight crew members from the vessel ‘Fiorella’ remain unaccounted for months after setting sail from the Pacific coast of Ecuador
The election of Abelardo de la Espriella as Colombia’s president marks the latest advance of leaders and movements that are reshaping the political map of the region. With the notable exceptions of Mexico and Brazil, the right is gaining ground and threatening to roll back many of the political and social advances of recent decades
Defense Secretary Hegseth says he does not rule out a military option in Cuba and proposes operations on Colombian soil. Trump’s strategy to control the region is meeting with resistance from Mexico and submission from Central America
Court records and testimony from defense attorneys show how prosecutors and the courts are securing convictions based on opaque police files, anonymous allegations and trials conducted behind closed doors
The Salvadoran’s family says he died at Delaney Hall, while the Department of Homeland Security claims he did so in hospital
Peru is the latest country to turn to the Army for public-order duties, an exceptional practice that carries risks for civil rights and that has become normalized in the region’s fight against drug trafficking
With his candidacy for a third term already formalized, the promise of alternation goes up in smoke in a country where the Constitution is being rewritten to suit the president
Back in the 1980s, during the armed conflict that gripped El Salvador, Zacamil was the site of massacres. But today, dozens of artists are restoring the historic neighborhood with murals. The project aims to reclaim public spaces, rebuild the social fabric, and restore dignity to a devastated area
The presiding judge has given the Department of Justice until this Wednesday to provide further arguments on the case, which would be the first brought before a court created in 1996
As the presidential family expands its real estate empire, lax fiscal controls and suspect loans open the way for a new club of millionaires in the Central American country
The lawyer receives her sister after over 440 days in detention under judicial limbo
Right-wing governments are now in power in 12 countries in their various forms, as hardline security policies, rollbacks of women’s and minority rights, and alliances in Trump’s orbit gain ground
The first deployment of Colombians to the country, coordinated by the UAE, was in 2024, but the network has expanded and now includes contractors from countries such as El Salvador
Argentine experts will join identification efforts by using stable isotopes found in bodies and remains to understand which country or region they came from
Doctors, epidemiologists and surveillance systems have managed to contain flares of cholera, mpox and Marburg virus before they become international crises
Director Andrés Torres Checka and Mexican actress Eréndira Ibarra tell the story of the FMLN’s legendary station at a time when Bukele is imposing fierce historical revisionism
The pope’s latest symbolic rebuke to the president is appointing a Salvadoran who entered the country as an undocumented migrant as bishop
Human rights defenders criticize the process, calling it a judicial ‘shortcut’ that seeks convictions instead of establishing individual accountability
