El Salvador

The Salvadoran president’s fierce war on gangs has quelled rampant violence and gained him unprecedented popularity while exacting a heavy toll on rights and freedoms

The prison transfer came the same day El Salvador’s congress voted to approve yet another extension of emergency rules that allow police to round up suspected members of street gangs

Doctors Without Borders has identified sexual violence as one of the most heinous problems in Mexico and Central America

The technocrat president of El Salvador has transformed into an authoritarian despot with no regard for the rule of law and human rights

The president assures that the prisoners ‘will live for decades’ in the immense prison built as part of his controversial security strategy, where they will not be able to do ‘any more harm to the population’

The records, to which Human Rights Watch has had access, have exposed overcrowding, deaths in custody and the detention of over 1,000 minors including children as young as 12

The Mexican president told his US counterpart to ‘do away’ with his ‘abandonment of Latin America’ in a bilateral meeting held as part of the North American Leaders’ Summit

The Mara Salvatrucha, the largest and most dangerous criminal structure in the country, is losing ground thanks to President Nayib Bukele’s state of emergency. But at what cost?

The move marks an escalation of the president’s controversial crackdown on criminal organizations, which has been widely condemned by human rights groups