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El Salvador’s social services agency says more than 40,000 children have had one parent or both detained in President Nayib Bukele’s nearly two-year war on gangs.

El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, accused of dismantling democracy, is likely headed to a second term, even though the constitution prohibits reelection.

The Miss Universe pageant is the latest spectacle touted by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele. Critics say he is distracting from human rights abuses.

Politicians in Latin America are adopting Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's style — aviator sunglasses, leather jackets, baseball caps — and his politics.

Over the past 15 months, El Salvador’s security forces have jailed tens of thousands of people in a massive crackdown on the country’s notorious gangs. Some evangelical pastors have taken

Over the past 15 months, El Salvador’s security forces have jailed tens of thousands of people in a massive crackdown on the country’s notorious gangs. Some evangelical pastors have taken

Over the past 15 months, El Salvador’s security forces have jailed tens of thousands of people in a massive crackdown on the country’s notorious gangs. Some evangelical pastors have taken

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The smell of pineapple bread fills the kitchen of “Vida Libre,” or “free life,” a gang rehabilitation program founded in El Salvador by American

The smell of pineapple bread fills the kitchen of “Vida Libre,” or “free life,” a gang rehabilitation program founded in El Salvador by American pastor Kenton Moody in 2021. The trust that Moody puts in former gang members is not widely shared. Thousands of lives have been destroyed in this Central American country after decades of extortion and murder committed by the gangs.

The daughter of a Guatemalan dictator convicted of genocide is running for president, raising questions about the nation's memory of a brutal civil war.