President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, celebrated for his tough stance on gangs, faces accusations of secretly negotiating ...

Las maras, as the gangs are known, brought El Salvador to its knees, robbing, raping and slaughtering with impunity. In one attack that made international headlines, gang members sprayed a bus ...

Chihuahua state police arrested a suspected member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang accused of being the leader of a criminal ...

New rules passed by El Salvador’s congress Wednesday ... President Nayib Bukele’s war on the Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gangs, which began last year when the leader declared ...

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced Wednesday the arrest of the ninth of 15 leaders of the violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) in the framework of a “war” against gangs that accumulates ...

Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members wait to be escorted upon arrival at the maximum-security jail in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador, January 31, 2019. El Salvador has among the world’s highest ...

U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Chula Vista Border Patrol Station arrested an alleged member of the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha ... year-old citizen of El Salvador and an MS-13 ...

Simultaneously, the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua has also become ... go back to Venezuela instead of dealing with the Mara prisons in El Salvador,” Claver-Carone said. Claver-Carone spoke ...

Under the terms of the deal, El Salvador would be designated ... in prison after they were seen on video using gang signs connected with the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang. Human rights ...