El Salvador

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

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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.

Violence isn’t the only reason migrants are fleeing Central America. A four-year drought has destroyed harvests and lives—and has pushed the hungry northward.

The United States must foster free trade and economic growth in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, or the vicious cycle of violence will persist.

Central America isn’t beyond repair, but there aren’t a lot of good people we can work with right now.

Amid an indifferent state and an activist Church, a defiant network of health workers struggle to offer a reprieve from the world’s most restrictive abortion laws.

Hundreds of thousands of gallons of molasses spilled into a river in El Salvador, in what the country's Environment Ministry is calling a three-month emergency.

It’s time for principle to take precedence over politics.

And more dangerous than ever.

Last year the United States took an important step toward helping the region clean up its bad actors. Now it needs to follow through.

A new report from the U.N.’s refugee agency sheds light on Central America’s worsening gang violence and the refugee crisis it has created.

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