Carlos ⁠Mojica, ⁠a founder and ⁠longtime leader of the violent Central American ​gang Barrio 18, has died in El Salvador from ‌liver complications, the government ‌announced on Thursday. Known as "El ...

Express columnist RICHARD MADELEY recently visited the Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) in El Salvador.

Once known as one of the most dangerous detention centers in the murder capital of the world, El Salvador’s sprawling La Esperanza prison now sits at the center of an international debate over crime, ...

TV presenter Richard Madeley has visited the world's toughest prison in El Salvador where 3,000 shaven-headed inmates are ...

PBSO extradited Jose Castellon Jimenez from El Salvador to face a murder charge after his wife, Eulalia, was found dead at a ...

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Trial opens against the leaders of MS-13, accused of rebellion and of ordering a massacre that triggered the country’s state of emergency ...

A few years ago, El Tunco beach in El Salvador was crawling with gang members who robbed and extorted people at will. Now it is thronged with tourists, lured by the transformation of El Salvador from ...

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ICE arrested Cristian Alberto Rivas-Escalante, 29, in Marco Island, Florida, on June 11. Rivas-Escalante, an alleged associate of the 18th Street Gang, had a warrant for his arrest in El Salvador. He ...