In San Salvador’s bustling Historic Center, nothing gets done without going through the gangs. The notorious Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and Barrio 18 street gangs have steadily tightened their grip on ...

It was late 2016 and officials in San Salvador were preparing for the grand opening of a sparkling new market in the city’s Historic Center. With its electric escalators, rooftop bars, bourgeois ...

San Salvador, to the most notorious prison in the country. Opened in 2023, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, known as CECOT, was designed to hold the most dangerous gang members in what ...

On Monday morning around dawn, a bus driver was shot and killed in El Salvador. It was the opening salvo in a new gang tactic: a call for buses on some 40 lines in the capital city of San Salvador ...

Here is what we know about the mega-prison called CECOT, an acronym for Terrorism Confinement Center ... Renteria in San Salvador and Raul Cortes and Brendan O'Boyle in Mexico City; Editing ...

SAN SALVADOR, Feb 1 (Reuters ... The 40,000-capacity Terrorism Confinement Center was inaugurated on Tuesday to help relieve some of the overpopulation in the country's prison system.