The murder of San Salvador Bishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero, devoted to a church with a preferential option for the poor, will be beatified Saturday during a public…
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — María was in her second year of university. She had a boyfriend and used the pill. Nevertheless, she missed her period for…
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Some 400 gang members were transferred on Friday from prisons in northern and eastern El Salvador to one with higher security in Izalco,…
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Clad in bullet-proof vests and balaclavas, elite squads of soldiers and police are preparing to wage a guerrilla-style war on El Salvador's gangs, trying…
WASHINGTON D.C. — Four activists were arrested Friday at El Salvador's embassy in Washington as they protested against prison sentences handed down to Salvadoran women for having allegedly…
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — It all started with a phone call. The man on the line said he was part of the Mara Salvatrucha gang and…
The right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party will take control of El Salvador's legislature, electoral authorities have finally confirmed. Authorities finished counting votes on Friday night -- almost four weeks after election…
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero knew they would kill him. Other priests in the country had already been murdered, and it was becoming obvious that…
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Archbishop Óscar Romero was a symbol of the divisions that split El Salvador during its civil war, but 35 years after his assassination, his imminent beatification has…
WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. upheld this week the deportation order of a former Salvadoran defense minister accused of grave human rights violations, including torture and extrajudicial killings, during…
