El Salvador

The collapse of Central America’s economies has pushed families deeper into poverty and reactivated regional migration.

Ruling ends restrictive policy that had halted most asylum claims by migrants seeking entry at the US southern border.

Most of the victims are in El Salvador, where heavy rains led to deaths of 15 people and...

President Bukele has spent the past few days scrapping with congress over who should dictate the...

President Bukele sparked controversy over the weekend after extending coronavirus measures without approval by congress.

With no containment, the outbreak could kill between 83,000 and 190,000 on the continent in the first year, WHO says.

Critics slam new US-Honduras deal, which was released the same day the US indicted a Honduran ex-national police chief.

El Salvador’s president has launched a crackdown on gang members in prisons.

The lockdown comes amid fears over the spread of the coronavirus in Latin America’s unruly prisons.

Despite coronavirus fears due to overcrowding, prisoners are placed under 24-hour lockdown.

Tear gas, arbitrary detentions and short-term humanitarian programmes have been the government reaction to protests.

Forty years after Archbishop Oscar Romero’s assassination, neoliberal violence is still wreaking havoc in El Salvador.

Leaders and experts worry the countries are doubly vulnerable because of weak, resource-stripped healthcare systems.

Rights groups and families of victims call the newly approved measure an ‘amnesty law in disguise’.