Confined to their cells for all but 30 minutes a day, denied visits, forced to sleep on stainless steel cots without ...

Explore the reality of El Salvador's mega-prison for gang members, where inmates are serving life sentences and face no ...

CECOT (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism) is a maximum security jail built a year ago by the Salvadoran government to ...

El Salvador welcomed 3.9 million tourists in 2024, establishing itself as a prominent tourism hotspot in Central America.

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(AP Photo/Salvador Melendez) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] SAN SALVADOR (AP) — A court in El Salvador on Thursday sentenced three youths to five years in prison ...

The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest economy in the region. With the global recession, real GDP contracted in 2009 and economic growth has ...

Demonstrators march during a protest against mining, against El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele government policies, and to demand the release of relatives imprisoned during the state of emergency, ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele speaks after receiving Costa Rica’s highest honor from President ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador closed 2024 with a record low 114 homicides, continuing notable security gains under a second full year of a state of emergency that has given the ...