El Salvador's Supreme Court ruled that the country's notoriously violent street gangs and those who support them financially will now be classified as "terrorist groups."
In an historic vote, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly ratified a reform to the nation's constitution that recognizes indigenous peoples and the state's obligations to them.
A spike in deadly violence came just as El Salvador faced presidential elections, leading to speculation of an intentional provocation by resurgent death squads.
Mayor de Blasio's closed-doors meeting with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) plays into the worst stereotypes about Jews. So no thanks, Bill.
Some 80,000 Salvadorans took to the streets on May Day to oppose privatization initiatives mandated by the US State Department’s Partnership for Growth program.
El Salvador pledged an invesitgation after Venezuela's new president Nicolas Maduro charged a US-backed assassination plot against him involving Salvdoran rightists.
Mara Salvatrucha, the Salvadoran street gang that got its start in Los Angeles' Koreatown, has been officially designated by US authorities as an "transnational criminal organization."
Days after the Catholic Church declared El Salvador's martyred Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero a saint, a judge in the Central American country issued an arrest order for a former military captain long suspected of ordering the killing of the religious leader. Judge Rigoberto Chicas issued the order for national and international authorities to apprehend Alvaro Rafael Saravia, 78. He remains at large and is believed to be in hiding. Saravia had been arrested for the crime in 1987, but the case against him was dropped when El Salvador passed its amnesty law in 1993. The case was re-opened after El Salvador's Supreme Court struck down the amnesty law in 2016. (Photo via Catholic News Agency)
