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 ...

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.

EL SALVADOR’S Supreme Court declared on Monday that street gangs and those who finance them would be considered terrorist groups. The court said the notorious Marasalvatrucha or MS-13 gang and any ...

The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest economy in the region. With the global recession, real GDP contracted in 2009 and economic growth has ...

The April 29, 2016, murder of Oscar Acosta, 19, in Brentwood because he was suspected to be associating with the rival 18th Street gang. Acosta, prosecutors said, was brutally beaten with tree ...

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

El Salvador’s official total does not include the killings of five suspected gang members in shootouts with security forces. In March 2022, El Salvador’s notoriously powerful street gangs killed 62 ...

Security personnel from Guatemala and El Salvador arrive in Port-au-Prince on Friday, January 3, 2025 to join the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission to fight gangs. Courtesy of the ...