The Latest Breaking News from El Salvador

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling on the government of El Salvador to respect human rights, after authorities declared a state of emergency and rounded up 14,000 suspected gang members

Although El Salvador has seen a fall in the number of homicides, the country suffers from another type of crime that the government avoids talking about. Gangs are stepping up kidnappings and forced disappearances, terrorising the most vulnerable, who increasingly end up dead. Faced with the authorities' silence, who keep…

Samson Mow — the former chief strategy officer at major Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)-centric tech firm Blockstream — has launched JAN3, a company raising $21 million at a $100-million valuation to accelerate Bitcoin adoption.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — After a dramatic spike in killings here over a single weekend last month, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s reaction was swift — and extreme.

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said he is canceling his participation in the upcoming Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) conference due to “unforeseen circumstances” in his home country.

The U.S. has learned its schedule for the Concacaf Nations League group stage, which doubles as part of the team’s preparations for the 2022 World Cup.

El Salvador’s congress has approved laws that would impose prison sentences of 10 to 15 years for news media that reproduce messages from the country’s street gangs, and that's alarming press freedom groups

Waging a campaign against gangs responsible for El Salvador having one of the world's highest murder rates, Congress in the Central American republic passed a bill on Tuesday criminalizing the publication of gang messages, including by news outlets.

El Salvador’s president has threatened to stop providing food for imprisoned members of street gangs