The Mara Salvatrucha-13, the Revolucionarios or Sureños factions of 18th Street and other smaller gangs like the Mao-Mao, La Mirada Locos, and CODEMAR no longer operate in the streets of El Salvador — ...

Bitcoiners: The New Owners of El Zonte In the last three years, the average price per square meter in one of El Salvador’s most famous beaches was $80.61 USD, more than doubling from $34.33 before ...

High-ranking Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13) sources confessed to El Faro their responsibility for the killings of 87 people between March 25 and 27 in El Salvador, including 62 of them on March 26, the ...

In 2023, two years after illegally releasing Élmer Canales Rivera, the MS-13 leader known as “Crook”, the government of El Salvador launched a desperate bid to re-capture him before the February 2024 ...

Zaira Navas leads a team that has interviewed hundreds of detainees under the government’s “state of exception” who suffered grave human rights violations during the months they spent in prison. In ...

One of the authors of Nayib Bukele’s strategy to draw close to the Make America Great Again movement in the United States is Argentinian advisor Damian Mathías Merlo Denebardi. Merlo is registered ...

Schoolteacher Alexander Eduvay Guzmán Molina, one of the first people detained under the state of exception, languished in a dark and humid cell for four days after police and guards “welcomed” him to ...

Twenty-three members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), including two leaders accused of acts of terrorism in the United States, were sent by the Donald Trump administration to El Salvador in the early ...

A criminal investigation in El Salvador found evidence that Bukele’s vice minister of justice and Bureau of Prisons director, Osiris Luna, embezzled $1.6 million worth of food between September and ...

February 26 was the last day that the investigative journalism magazine GatoEncerrado had a physical newsroom. It was one of 11 Salvadoran media outlets affected by the freezing of U.S. cooperation ...

An investigation led by former Attorney General Raúl Melara found that the government of Nayib Bukele held negotiations in maximum-security prisons in 2020 with El Salvador’s three main gangs: the ...

The Secretary of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice has a lot of work these days. In the lobby of the Palace of Justice, the usual crowd of lawyers who come and go filing all ...