Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, has released new footage from the Center of Confinement of Terrorism, the ...

Argentina is considering emulating El Salvador’s controversial crackdown on violent crime after a visit by President Javier Milei’s security minister to the country’s new mega prison.

The first group of 2,000 suspected gang members in El Salvador have been moved to a ... unable to do any further harm to the population." The mega-prison - in Tecoluca, 74 kilometers (46 miles ...

The residents of this jungle region have been protesting for 12 days. They have cut off the main roads of the province and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. El Salvador’s government released footage of its new "megaprison," which can hold up to 40,000 inmates. More from News El Salvador’s government released footage ...

In February, four women sat down before the full glare of El Salvador's press. Between them, they had served nearly 50 years in prison. Their crime was to have the misfortune of suffering a ...

Salvadoran Teodora Vásquez will remain in prison for another 20 years. Crédito: Oscar Rivera/AFP/Getty Images A court in El Salvador decided late Wednesday to uphold a 30-year prison sentence ...

This week, a woman was freed from prison in El Salvador after spending 15 years behind bars. Maira Verónica Figueroa Marroquín, 34, has always maintained that she didn’t have an abortion ...