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As migration from El Salvador to the US drops, a small but growing number of Salvadoran immigrants are now returning home ...
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded El Salvador’s 2025 Article IV consultation and completed the first review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement.
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is intensifying his crackdown on dissent, a move observers suggest has been emboldened by his alliance with U.S.
Mother details ‘nightmare’ after Trump sends son to El Salvador mega-prison where he’s being held incommunicado Nearly three months later, family members and lawyers still haven’t been ...
Authorities in El Salvador have arrested the prominent human rights lawyer Ruth Eleonora López.
El Salvador authorities have arrested Ruth López, a prominent anti-corruption and human rights attorney with Cristosal.
El Salvador’s top independent investigative news outlet moved its headquarters to Costa Rica in 2023. More of its journalists left the country this month.
El Salvador's Nayib Bukele is a hero of the American right and portrays himself as a hip, innovative disrupter-in-chief willing to break norms to save his country. Critics say he's just an old ...
The mother of a 25-year-old Venezuelan man deported to El Salvador's notorious super prison has told Newsweek of the "heartbreaking" moment she recognized her son was among those deported.
A reliable source in El Salvador told El Faro that the Bukele-controlled Attorney General’s Office is preparing at least seven arrest warrants for members of El Faro. The source reached out following ...
El Salvador has become the Cuba of the right Bukele’s admirers have moved beyond pilgrimages to El Salvador’s police state and are now importing its practices. But like Cuba’s ex-admirers, they might ...
While thousands of innocent people remain incarcerated in inhumane conditions in the prisons of El Salvador, one of the most recognized gang leaders in the Central American country, Carlos Cartagena ...