The Latest Breaking News from El Salvador

San Salvador (AFP) - Kenia was 17 when, she says, she had a miscarriage after a fall and was sent to jail on suspicion of having had an abortion in El Salvador.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Four months into El Salvador's experiment as the first and only country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal currency, the International Monetary Fund had seen enough.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador's president and the Chinese ambassador traded flatteries this month as they broke ground on a new national library, one of a slew of gifts China has promised this small mountainous nation as part of its vigorous quest to gain influence across Central America.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has taken a dig at U.S.

President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday asked U.S. senators to stay out of El Salvador's "internal affairs" after they called for an investigation into the economic risks the United States faces due to the Central American country's adoption of bitcoin as legal tender.

The 38-year-old - identified only as Elsy - had served about a third of her 30-year prison sentence

San Salvador (AFP) - An El Salvadorian woman was freed from prison Wednesday, after the remaining 20 years of her 30-year sentence for having an abortion were commuted.

Salvadoran authorities on Wednesday freed a woman who had served a decade of a 30-year sentence on charges of aggravated homicide after suffering a miscarriage, according to a local rights group.

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