Tariq Zaidi President Bukele has been making some changes to the Salvadorean prison system. On 26 December - before coronavirus spread to El Salvador - he announced that Chalatenango prison ...

Demonstrators march during a protest against mining, against El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele government policies ... “It’s desperate” living without “knowing how they are,” she said, as visits to ...

Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, has released new footage from the Center of Confinement of Terrorism, the ...

In February, four women sat down before the full glare of El Salvador's press. Between them, they had served nearly 50 years in prison. Their crime was to have the misfortune of suffering a ...

in northern El Salvador. Authorities house rival gangs in separate prisons to avoid deadly riots, but extreme crowding has stretched the prison system beyond its limits. His next ordeal starts the ...

A child, victim of the earthquake, receives a plate of food while others wait in line on February 15, 2001, in Verapaz, El Salvador ... from two to 12 years in prison, "often on such overly ...

This week, a woman was freed from prison in El Salvador after spending 15 years behind bars. Maira Verónica Figueroa Marroquín, 34, has always maintained that she didn’t have an abortion ...

Crédito: Oscar Rivera/AFP/Getty Images A court in El Salvador decided late Wednesday to uphold a 30-year prison sentence for ... in the Salvadoran judicial system.” ...

Our country is an example to the world of peace, confidence and optimism,” proclaimed El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele in ...