Three former officers in El Salvador’s military have been convicted for the killings of four Dutch journalists during the Central American country’s brutal civil war in 1982.

(Washington, DC) – Authorities in El Salvador have arrested the prominent human rights lawyer Ruth Eleonora López, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 18, 2025, at 11 p.m., Salvadoran police ...

A prominent human rights lawyer known for defending immigrants deported amid United States President Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration policies has been arrested in El Salvador. Ruth ...

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 ...

El Salvador’s recent $1.4 billion bailout by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) aimed to cut short President Nayib Bukele’s unwieldy cryptocurrency goals and their toll on the country’s ...

El Salvador suffered through a brutal civil war through the 1980s and ’90s, and severe gang violence into the 2000s. By 2015, the country was the world’s murder capital.

El Salvador’s emergence as a political stage amid Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wrongful deportation comes after years of Republicans steadily strengthening ties with Nayib Bukele's country.

El Salvador, the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, is working with the computer chip giant Nvidia to implement artificial intelligence for national development.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has demanded El Salvador release hundreds of Venezuelans who were deported from the United States, who he described as being “kidnapped,” after his ...

This week’s White House meeting between President Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele offered a crucial opportunity. It should have marked an era of renewed US engagement with our ...

As court disputes heat up over the Trump administration's deportations of alleged criminal migrants to El Salvador, legal experts tell DW what's at stake for both detainees and the rule of law.

House GOP committee chairs are denying Democrats’ requests to travel to El Salvador and visit its CECOT prison facility to check on a mistakenly deported man and for oversight.