Melvin Reyes was arrested on Sunday, March 27, the same day the government declared a state of exception, and was accused of belonging to the Mara Salvatrucha. Twenty days later, a judge ordered his ...

Bitcoin Beach is a project born in 2019. Mike Peterson, a surfer from California, claims he received an anonymous Bitcoin donation to carry out projects in the community. When the Covid-19 pandemic ...

The Mara Salvatrucha-13, the Revolucionarios or Sureños factions of 18th Street and other smaller gangs like the Mao-Mao, La Mirada Locos, and CODEMAR no longer operate in the streets of El Salvador — ...

February 26 was the last day that the investigative journalism magazine GatoEncerrado had a physical newsroom. It was one of 11 Salvadoran media outlets affected by the freezing of U.S. cooperation ...

An investigation led by former Attorney General Raúl Melara found that the government of Nayib Bukele held negotiations in maximum-security prisons in 2020 with El Salvador’s three main gangs: the ...

La Asamblea Legislativa aprobó la noche de este martes 31 de agosto reformas de ley que jubilan de manera automática a un tercio de los jueces del país, y a una cantidad no determinada de agentes ...

A day after El Salvador eliminated bitcoin as legal tender, the only government official to have spoken out on the matter entered a huge hotel room in San Salvador packed with cryptocurrency ...

A modern-day gold rush is poisoning ecosystems and terrorizing Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Nicaragua, as corporations and settlers invade autonomous territories and nature reserves, ...

The first construction works on El Salvador’s Pacific Airport, a signature Bukele infrastructure project, have displaced 225 families from the communities of Condadillo and Flor de Mangle, in the ...

El Gobierno de El Salvador favoreció con un contrato millonario directo en equipo de espionaje a un amigo del presidente Nayib Bukele. En octubre de 2020, siete meses y medio después de que el ...

Twenty-three members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), including two leaders accused of acts of terrorism in the United States, were sent by the Donald Trump administration to El Salvador in the early ...

Juan Saúl’s family thought it was suspicious that the guards at Quezaltepeque would have them enter the prison. In El Salvador, after 31 months of mass arrests amid a slow trickle of releases under ...