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El Salvador Tourism Hits All-Time High in 2025

El Salvador recorded a historic 4.1 million international visitors in 2025, the highest annual figure the country has ever seen. Ministry of Tourism data...

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...
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Panama Open to Talks With Costa Rica on Meat and Dairy Ban

Panama’s government has signaled willingness to discuss its long-running restrictions on Costa Rican beef, dairy, poultry, fruits and vegetables, but cattle producers immediately drew...

Before You Buy That New Car in Costa Rica, Read This

The sticker shock is real, but so is something else hiding in the dashboard. Anyone who has looked at new car prices in Costa...

Costa Rica Airport Named Best Regional Airport in Central America and Caribbean

Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaría International Airport has been named the best regional airport in Central America and the Caribbean in the Skytrax 2026 World...

U.S. Deportations of Salvadorans Nearly Double in First Quarter of 2026

U.S. authorities deported 5,033 Salvadorans between January and March 2026. That total represents a nearly 98 percent jump from the 2,547 recorded in the...