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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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Italy’s Sinner Sets Tennis Record, Closes In on Historic Rome Title

Italian Jannik Sinner, the world's top-ranked men's tennis player, made history on Thursday at the Italian Open in Rome, winning a record 32nd consecutive...

Costa Rica’s Caribbean and Southern Tourism Push Faces Years of Delays

Costa Rica's plan to redirect tourism investment toward the Caribbean coast and the Southern Zone is now formally in the hands of Marcos Borges,...

Costa Rica Court to Review Extension of OIJ Director’s Suspension

The suspension of Randall Zúñiga, director of Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Agency, could be extended for three more months after Judicial Inspection asked the...

Best Brands Expands in Costa Rica with New Santa Ana Trade Center Store

Costa Rican footwear and accessories chain Best Brands has opened a new store at the Santa Ana Trade Center, marking its 35th sales point...