Lawmakers in El Salvador have taken advantage of a newly streamlined constitutional reform process to eliminate public ...

Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 ...

The crash and hum of the ocean is everywhere in El Zonte, a small town on the lush Pacific coast of El Salvador about an hour ...

When Nayeli Membreño moved to Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley from El Salvador six years ago at age 13, she couldn’t speak English and knew nothing about skiing. Now she is fluent — and has become an ...

The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, dominated by the ruling party, approved a law this Friday to prevent, investigate, ...

America’s Central Intelligence Agency has offered all staff the option to receive eight months pay in order to walk away from ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there ...

President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail deported criminals from the United States. His prisons have earned him a ...

It is illegal to deport American citizens from the U.S., regardless of if they've been convicted of a crime, and any attempt ...

Mauricio Funes, former President of El Salvador (2009-2014), died at 65 in Nicaragua, where he had sought refuge to avoid corruption charges. Funes faced multiple convictions related to corruption ...

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday (January 21, 2025). He was 65. Nicaragua’s ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. El Salvador’s former president, Mauricio Funes, who came into politics after a career as a whistleblowing ...