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Bukele Compares El Salvador’s Mass Gang Trial to the Nuremberg Trials

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, on Wednesday compared the collective trial of gang leaders in his country to the historic Nuremberg proceedings against top...

El Salvador Opens Mass Trial Against Gang leaders

El Salvador’s justice system on Monday opened a trial against some 486 people accused of belonging to the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), including several founders...

El Salvador Adds New Tools in National Health App to Track and Treat Chronic Conditions

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced the start of the second phase of Dr. SV, a public health application developed with Google Cloud that...

El Salvador Permits Life Sentences Starting at Age 12

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele signed reforms into law that permit life prison sentences for people convicted of serious crimes starting at age 12. The...

El Salvador Mass Trials Raise Fears Innocent People Will Pay

Williams Díaz was detained by soldiers more than three years ago while on his way to work. Today, in El Salvador’s mega-prison for gang...

Salvadorans Create More Than 1 km Salt Carpet During Holy Week

Some 2,000 Salvadorans created a colorful carpet made of dyed salt stretching 1,070 meters, which was used for the Holy Burial procession on Friday...

UN Urges El Salvador to Review Life Sentences for Minors

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday urged El Salvador to review the life sentences approved for minors who commit murder,...

Human Rights Watch Urges El Salvador to End Bukele’s State of Emergency

The NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the government of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to end the state of emergency it has maintained...

500 Prisoners Die in El Salvador Custody During Bukele Anti-Gang Crackdown

A Salvadoran human rights organization says at least 500 people have died in state custody since President Nayib Bukele launched his anti-gang offensive four...

El Salvador Rescues 16 Ecuadorian Fishermen Lost in Pacific Waters

El Salvador’s Navy rescued 16 Ecuadorians whose vessel caught fire a week ago in Pacific waters near the Galápagos archipelago, Ecuador’s Navy reported. The...
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El Salvador Celebrates UNESCO-Recognized Flowers and Palms Festival

Panchimalco, one of El Salvador’s most important Indigenous-rooted towns, filled its streets Sunday with flowers, palms, music and religious devotion for the annual Cofradía...

Amnesty Urges El Salvador First Lady to Help Families of Detainees

Amnesty International on Sunday called on El Salvador’s first lady, Gabriela Rodríguez, to facilitate dialogue between authorities and the mothers of thousands of people...

Costa Rica Could Open Embassy in Jerusalem After Herzog Meeting

President Laura Fernández Delgado has told Israeli President Isaac Herzog that she wants to upgrade Costa Rica’s diplomatic representation in Jerusalem to a full...

Costa Rica to Host 2026 Latin American Karting Championship

Costa Rica will host the 2026 Latin American Karting Championship this weekend, bringing one of the region’s largest karting events to the P1 Speedway...