Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves toured a sprawling mega-prison for alleged gang members on Friday in Tecoluca, El ...

President Trump intends to name the deputy homeland security secretary to be the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, multiple ...

By the third hour in chains, Adan Caceres’ head was pounding and his lips were cracking from thirst.

El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown ...

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves visited the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in San Vicente, El Salvador's ...

In 2021, President Bukele initiated a sweeping crackdown on gangs and crime. In a matter of weeks, 87,000 people were ...

The hearings were to examine the last March's deportations to El Salvador.

Report says proposal to place survivors in notorious CECOT facility rejected before men were returned to Colombia and Ecuador ...

A federal judge is conducting an inquiry into the matter.

As the US doubles down on overt interventions, experts warn policymakers may be overlooking a key battlefield: prisons across the region.

Video released on Friday showed Chaves touring cell blocks inside the high-security facility, accompanied by journalists, ...

It's one thing to observe those contradictions. I understood that for Yessenia, Miguel, and their twin 10-year-old daughters, ...