El Salvador

The Light Within | Ep 5 – El Salvador

In a Salvadoran prison, young women from rival gangs learn to co-exist and prepare for life beyond penitentiary walls.

Who Is Nayib Bukele? El Salvador’s ‘coolest dictator’

At 44, Bukele has built the world’s highest imprisonment rate and scrapped presidential term limits. What comes next?

Hundreds of gang members in mass trial over more than 47,000 crimes

Hundreds of MS-13 gang members accused of homicides, drug and arms trafficking, and disappearances are the subject of a mass trial in El Salvador.

El Salvador publishes law allowing life sentences for minors as young as 12

The new sentencing measure comes as President Nayib Bukele oversees a four-year-long state of emergency against crime.

Meet the children left without parents under El Salvador’s emergency decree

As El Salvador's state of emergency turns four years old, families warn of the toll of the mass arrests on children.