On December 2, 1980, as the Carter years were waning into the Reagan years, four American churchwomen—nuns Maura Clarke, Ita ...

Nayib Bukele ‘cleaned up’ his country by gutting its democracy. What lessons is the US president taking from him?

A weird feeling came over me as I walked among demonstrators at El Salvador’s consulate in Tucson Wednesday, the blue and white stripes of the Salvadoran flag fluttering above the crowd on East ...

The trial concerning the murder of four Dutch journalists in El Salvador in 1982 has been postponed until June 3, Gert Kuiper, brother of one of the murdered journalists, told NOS. The trial was ...

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Marvin Reyes joined El Salvador’s national police corps in 1995. He remembers a police academy flush with idealism: After 12 years of civil war, El Salvador had become a democracy, and police ...

Immigration law requires the government to give migrants meaningful notice and a hearing before removing them from the United ...

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The Trump administration continues to insist it didn't defy a federal judge's order when it failed to turn around planes ...