Article on Latino congregations needed a more precise telling of El Salvador's history in order to understand reasons for ...

The fiercest voices of dissent against President Nayib Bukele have long feared a widespread crackdown. They weathered police ...

An estimated 75,000 civilians were killed during El Salvador’s civil war, mostly by U.S.-backed government security forces.

The conflict in El Salvador lasted 12 years, from 1980 to 1992, following a civil-military coup in 1979, leaving around 75,000 civilians dead and others tortured, raped or abducted. Rosales' often ...

El Salvador’s top human rights organization, Cristosal, says it is leaving the country after harassment and legal threats by the government of President Nayib Bukele ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama —El Salvador has lost one more human rights group. The country's most prominent human rights group, Cristosal, announced on Thursday that it's being forced to shut down its ...

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 ...

In their letter, El Salvador’s bishops acknowledged the need to address the nation’s gang crimes and the recent successes of Mr. Bukele in containing crime, but implored that new attention be ...

Mr. Chicas, a former president of El Salvador’s supreme electoral tribunal who also served as a press secretary to former President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, was arrested in February on charges ...