Two men who officials say were in the country illegally, including an MS-13 gang member, were arrested in Detroit over the ...

President Nayib Bukele labeled the gangs operating in El Salvador as “satanic” and considered it a “miracle” to have pacified the country by imprisoning more than 80,000 of their alleged members. He ...

With the “war” against gangs declared by Bukele in March 2022, almost 72,000 alleged gang members are in prison in El Salvador, by virtue of an emergency regime that allows arrests without judicial ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Many undocumented immigrants say they're fleeing to the U.S. because of relentless gang violence in their homelands. Last year, nearly 30 percent of unaccompanied ...

A court in El Salvador on Wednesday sentenced seven members of a notorious criminal gang to 390 years in prison each for their part in a March 2016 massacre that shocked the crime-ravaged Central ...

Salvadoran authorities captured 120 members and associates of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, the prosecutor's office said on Thursday, part of a broad offensive to curb the escalation of gang ...

Every day, thousands of Salvadorans travel through areas governed by the Mara Salvatrucha into areas governed by one of the Barrio 18's two factions. Many lives depend on these invisible boundaries.

When new recruits join the brutal Mara Salvatrucha gang in El Salvador, seasoned members haze the newcomers by beating them in a harrowing ritual. The initiation is said to symbolize a recruit’s ...

Her modest home is in a part of San Salvador controlled by the Mara Salvatrucha, a gang so ruthless and sprawling that the Obama administration has labeled it an international criminal organization.

Gangs in El Salvador seem to be replicating the mythical military tactic known as the Trojan Horse. In Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, he told the story of how the Greek Ulysses faked the retreat of ...

The Mara Salvatrucha took root in Central America. The overcrowded prison in Quezaltepeque in northern El Salvador is a warehouse for Salvadoran and deported U.S. members of the gang, and the ...