El Salvador

A shadowy group of Venezuelans with anti-Chavismo roots is deeply embedded in the Salvadoran government and oversaw the president’s successful electoral campaign

Forty thousand children have seen one parent or both detained in President Nayib Bukele’s nearly two-year war on El Salvador’s gangs, according to the national social services agency

EL PAÍS visits the Terrorism Confinement Center, the maximum-security mega-prison that El Salvador’s president inaugurated a year ago amid the country’s war on gangs

Behind the bars of the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) are El Salvador’s most dangerous inmates: hitmen who have committed dozens of murders and are serving sentences of 700 years. Every cell is full, and the authorities refuse to specify the number of people incarcerated at this facility

The president has achieved results in terms of security, but now faces structural problems

The president pulverized the opposition in the elections and has all the necessary support to implement his policies

The president says he has achieved a landslide victory in the elections after having put an end to the country’s violent gangs

The president of El Salvador began his political career as a small-town mayor, realizing his destiny for power.

Any Salvadoran citizen who is in the United States can vote online for the 2024 Election until February 4

A former Barrio 18 gang leader swindled a high-ranking police chief in a fake plot to have a Mexican drug cartel abduct Elmer Canales Rivera, alias ‘Crook,’ according to an investigation by ‘El Faro’

The president is set to be re-elected next Sunday thanks to his great popularity in the country, where he is esteemed for taking down the gangs despite the high cost to human rights

With 40 homicides per 100,000 people and crime rates at a historic high, the country hopes that President Daniel Noboa’s project will bring an end to the violence

Carlos Hernández’s documentary portrays some of the reasons that have led 19,000 children and adolescents a year to seek a better life in the United States

Two centuries after the speech that inaugurated the United States’ policy toward the region, five Democratic lawmakers call for an end to the Cuban embargo and the declassification of secret CIA files, as well as reforms to the IMF and the OAS

On the occasion of her participation in the National Summit of Elected Women of Colombia, organized by U.N. Women, the former president of Chile talks about what it is like to be a woman in politics, the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza and the authoritarian drift in Latin America

The leader has been granted leave for six months so that he can begin campaigning for the February 4 elections

Human rights organization Cristosal tallied 153 incarceration deaths during the first year of the state of emergency. No victim had yet been convicted, the group said

People who have suffered attacks because of their sexual or gender identity and were welcomed in Mexico see their stories reflected in the exhibition ‘Doors of Hope’

The winner is a 23-year-old communicologist and says she wants to work to promote mental health after suffering debilitating bouts of anxiety herself