A member of the violent 18th Street gang will spend the next 40 years in prison and faces deportation after stalking and killing a man in Maryland to elevate his standing in the transnational criminal ...

In March, a truce was brokered between El Salvador's two most violent street gangs and they agreed to stop killing each other. The Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street are criminal outfits which trace ...

El Salvador is now the safest country in Latin America. The astonishing reduction in homicide rates is a result of President Nayib Bukele's crackdown on gangs.

Neighbourhoods which have endured years of extortion and violence at the hands of the brutal MS-13 and 18th Street gangs are enjoying an unprecedented period of calm. However, El Salvador's prison ...

The nearest cash machine is two blocks away on the turf of MS-13’s archenemy, the 18th Street gang. El Salvador’s government says that criminal gangs command an estimated 60,000 active members ...

Before President Bukele came to power, members of the two rival gangs that are behind much of the violence in El Salvador - Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street gang - were housed in separate prisons ...

Jairo Saenz, 28, admitted that he took part or ordered seven separate violent slayings on Long Island as a bigwig with the ...