The small Central American country of El Salvador, which holds presidential elections on February 3, suffered a brutal civil war and remains burdened by gang violence and poverty. Once part of a ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Although most of the 7,000 migrants in the caravan wending its way through far-southern Mexico are Hondurans, some Salvadorans have also joined. There is even a Facebook page and a ...

Human Rights Watch says thousands of children have been caught up in Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's "war on gangs," which included last month's transfer of these alleged gang members to a ...

A visit to Soyapango, one of El Salvador’s most impoverished slums, shows that the Bitcoin experiment isn’t reaching those who need it most. This is an opinion editorial by Rikki, author and co-host ...

Ana Vilma Albanez de Escobar, the first female vice president of El Salvador, spoke about the past, present and future challenges of Central American countries and "how the actions of people in one ...

SANTA ANA, El Salvador (AP) — Tears welled in Alex’s eyes and he pressed his head into his hands as he thought about more than a year of birthdays and holidays without his mother, who was swept up by ...

As the micro bus carrying a group of eight Grand Junction residents turned left off the Pan-American Highway on Saturday and ascended the steep hill that would take them to where the road forks at the ...

While Europe is my passion and the focus of my work, Latin America has long held a fascination for me. I took my first trip to the region (to both Nicaragua and El Salvador) in 1988, during El ...

SANTA ANA, El Salvador (AP) -- Tears welled in Alex's eyes and he pressed his head into his hands as he thought about more than a year of birthdays and holidays without his mother, who was swept up by ...

Santa Ana, El Salvador — Tears welled in Alex's eyes and he pressed his head into his hands as he thought about more than a year of birthdays and holidays without his mother, who was swept up by El ...