El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown ...

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling on El Salvador to protect the rights of three Salvadoran men deported by the United States ...

Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has brought peace to El Salvador, but the price, some Salvadorans say, has been the loss of civil liberties. “We used to be afraid of the gangs,” says one ...

Together, they reveal how a global vision of mass incarceration is spreading, one cellblock at a time. These facilities ...

Interviews with police officers and internal police documents reveal abusive practices that have led to arbitrary detention and abuse of power in El Salvador. Their accounts provide a rare insight ...

In El Salvador, hundreds of people detained in government facilities, allegedly aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, held a protest Monday demanding to be freed and be given the results of ...

The tight-knit community that rallied around Yessenia Ruano continues to feel her absence months after her departure to El ...

Each edition of the Venice Biennale grows a little bigger as countries join the event's national pavilion line-up. That will ...

These detainees from Somali, Mexico and El Salvador were touted by Homeland Security for their criminal records.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele speaks during a State of the Union address in June 2023. (Camilo Freedman / For The Times) Victor Barahona was grateful when soldiers started rounding up gang members ...