A court in El Salvador on Thursday sentenced three youths to five years in prison and put five more on probation after they were arrested last year following the public release of a video of them ...

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Like many in El Salvador, he doesn’t want to reveal his name. As a teenager in rural Usulután, one of the country’s 14 departments, he’d been pressured to join Mara Salvatrucha, the largest ...

Last November, El Salvador suffered another spike in homicides, which in three days claimed the lives of some 45 people. The Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 gangs have some 70,000 members in El ...

In March, a truce was brokered between El Salvador's two most violent street gangs and they agreed to stop killing each other. The Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street are criminal outfits which trace ...

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El Salvador police conduct an operation in San Salvador on February 1. The operation was carried out in a San Salvador slum that's controlled by Mara Salvatrucha, one of the country's largest gangs.

Trump's plan to label drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations sparks debate over its impact on border security.