The El Salvador Prosecutor’s Office requests the trial of more than 1,200 members of the MS-13 gang
The Attorney General's Office The Savior submitted requests to different courts to criminally prosecute 1,202 alleged gang members belonging to…
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El Salvador adds 25 extensions to the emergency regime after Congressional approval
The Congress of The Saviorwith a pro-government majority, extended on Tuesday for the twenty-fifth time an emergency regime that suspends…
“Put everyone in jail so they don’t kill,” says Bukele about the high rate of incarceration in El Salvador
The president of The Savior, Nayib Bukelereacted this Tuesday to a publication on the social network X in which reference…
The war against Salvadoran gangs gave priority to the rights of “honest people”, according to Bukele
The president of The Savior, Nayib BukeleHe stated in a speech in which he proclaimed, without official data, his immediate…
What Bukele’s mega-prison is like, a symbol of the fight against gangs in El Salvador
Considered the “largest prison in the Americas”, with capacity for 40 thousand inmates, the Confinement Center against Terrorism (Cecot) in…
Who is ‘Crook’, the leader of MS-13 who will be tried for terrorism in the USA (and why he was instrumental in the pact with Bukele)
Elmer Canales Rivera, founding leader of the violent Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13)will be tried in a New York court,…
Who is “Crook”, one of El Salvador’s most powerful gang members who was extradited from Mexico to the US
He is considered the second in command of the Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13one of the most historically powerful gangs in…
Mexico detains Elmer Canales Rivera, known as ‘El Crook of Hollywood’, leader of Mara Salvatrucha MS-13
Elmer Canales Rivera, one of the leaders of the violent Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), wanted by North American justice,…
Bukele guarantees that El Salvador has become a “reference” in the fight against gangs
The Savior ceased to be the “world capital of crime" To be "referring to something positive” with his war against…
Megacárcel celebrates six months in El Salvador with thousands of gang members
Under a rigorous security scheme, more than 12,000 suspected gang members from The Savior they are locked in a mega…
El Salvador: Bukele establishes a military siege with more than 8,000 agents to detain gang members
The president of The Savior, Nayib Bukeleimposed this Tuesday a military and police siege in the central department of cabinsin…
They capture one of the fifteen leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha in El Salvador
The authorities of The Savior announced this Tuesday the arrest of one of the 15 national leaders of the Mara…
Hundreds of weapons destroyed after seizing gang members in prisons in Honduras
Authorities honduran destroyed on Monday hundreds of weapons, including rifles, pistols and revolvers, seized in the last fifteen days from…
Honduras seeks to pacify prisons and confiscates weapons, drugs and phones from inmates
The Public Order Military Police (PMOP) of Honduras reported this Monday that it seized firearms when starting operations to try…
The Pope recalls the confrontation in a women’s prison in Honduras, where 46 inmates died
He Pope Francisco expressed his sadness this Sunday for the victims in the brawl this week in a women's prison…
For the fifteenth time, the Congress of El Salvador extends the emergency regime to attack gangs
The Congress of The Savior approved this Wednesday an extension for 30 days of an emergency regime by which the…
The UN calls for the lifting of the state of emergency in El Salvador
The High Commissioner for United Nations for the Human rights asked this Friday to lift the state of exception in…
Bukele celebrates four years of government with massive support but also with criticism
President Nayib Bukele celebrates this Thursday four years in power in The Savior with great popularity for hiswar” against the…
Torture, mass graves and more than 150 deaths in prisons: the worst face of the emergency regime in El Salvador
Carlos José Santos Mejía was studying to take his final exams for his last year of high school when the…
“While they were kneeling, they gave them electric shocks”: the harsh testimonies of the mass incarceration decreed by Bukele
"Hands up. If they take them down we are going to kill them (…). Only if they're lucky will they…