El Salvador

Corrupt local elites thwarted some engagement efforts of the past decade, Biden’s new special envoy wrote.

But the reasons behind the drop are unclear, and broader security and economic reforms are urgently needed.

In Sunday’s legislative elections, voters overwhelmingly backed a popular president promising change, despite criticisms of democratic backsliding.

President Nayib Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas party prepares for an electoral sweep.

Transgender rights activists say the prosecution of Camila Díaz Córdova’s death as a hate crime is an advance, although LGBTQ citizens continue to face discrimination and abuse.

A look at terms from India and El Salvador to South Korea and Ukraine.

A federal court case could stop Ottawa from treating the United States as a safe third country due to the Trump administration’s harsh policies toward asylum-seekers.

The rival gangs MS-13 and La 18 control or influence every facet of life in El Salvador, making the small Central American nation the world’s most dangerous place outside a war zone.

Repatriating refugees to dangerous countries violates international law and breeds conflict, instability, and future crises. Regional work visas and long-term integration into host countries are more promising solutions.

A memo details the Trump administration’s efforts to end waivers for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Central American nationals and send them home.

Shootings reported as enfrentamientos, or confrontations, often mask killings of civilians and other misconduct.

Can Nayib Bukele cozy up to the United States?

This week, the world marked International Women’s Day, and the U.S. State Department canceled an award for a Finnish journalist who criticized Trump.

The administration’s push to weaken oversight of gun exports could worsen the Central American refugee crisis.

Washington helped start an epidemic of violence against women in Central America. Now it’s washing its hands of the problem.

Nayib Bukele won in a landslide. Now, he needs new policies to reduce violence in his country.

The under secretary of state feared that canceling the temporary protected status for some immigrants would be a blight on U.S. foreign policy.