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Vendors sell images of President Nayib Bukele during El Salvador's election campaign.
Elections
Nayib Bukele’s popularity steers him toward an unprecedented second term as president of El Salvador
A police officer searches and checks the documents of a man living in the Kiwanis Community, during a preventive patrol in search of gang members in Soyapango, El Salvador, Aug. 16, 2022, amid a state of exception.
Conflict & Justice
El Salvador imprisons dozens of foreign visitors in crackdown on crime
On May 1, two large marches weaved across San Salvador in commemoration of International Workers Day. 
Leaders
El Salvador president’s popularity soars with controversial approach to crime
People sit along Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador.
Economics
El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment rides on choppy seas as currency fluctuates
A young man is detained by the police, a suspect in a homicide near a market in San Salvador, El Salvador
Violence
El Salvador declares state of emergency amid killings
In this photo provided by US Navy, the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Illinois (SSN 786) returns home to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam from a deployment in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility
Top of The World
Aukus security pact sparks Chinese and French ire
Dinora Hernandez’s three children make bracelets at home in Oakland, California. Every Tuesday, Hernandez heads to a local food bank, assistance that allows her to wire cash to family in El Salvador.
Economics
‘I want to send more money home’: Remittances are a sign of sacrifice, resilience in immigrant communities during pandemic
An array of bitcoins
Top of The World
El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender
A display of a variety of guns on a table made from unauthorized parts
Violence
President Biden set to further regulate ‘ghost guns’
A black and white headshot of author Roberto Lovato
Books
A Salvadoran American’s memoir ‘comes full circle’ on a family history of violence, struggle
A green military truck drives on a road.
US Diplomacy
State Dept. list of corrupt Central American government officials is a ‘sham,’ rep. says
A group of migrants cross a shallow river and met with border agents in green uniforms.
Immigration
Some Salvadoran migrants look to other nations for refuge as US tightens border
A young girl is lit up on a stage with an enormous dark monster behind her.
Children of TPS join marchers in Washington by staging urgent play: ‘Will somebody please help me?’
Nayib Bukele speaks at a podium.
Global Politics
Nayib Bukele: El Salvador’s young social media star — and next president
Daniel Alemán wears a black shirt in a room with two paintings on the wall and a blurry bouquet of flowers.
Conflict & Justice
The kids aren’t alright — when being young is a crime in El Salvador
School project of child's hand prints with poem, "When I'm grown and far away, these little hands with you will stay"
Justice
As Trump ends Obama-era protections for Salvadorans, a family in Minnesota has few good options to stay together
In this cartoon, a young boy is swinging from monkey bars and a piece of paperwork from Immigration is at his right
Global Politics
As US ends immigration programs, a mother and son wonder if they’ll ever be together again
Woman putting bills in public bus machine, with windshield behind her
Justice
She escaped violence in El Salvador, but there’s little time or resources to heal while seeking asylum in the US
Mother son
Global Politics
An immigrant mother’s plea: ‘Send me back. But don’t take my kids.’
Bodies and feet of two young people, one pregnant
Justice
On the way to the US, children seeking asylum are often put in Mexico’s detention centers
close up of three people holding hands
Justice
A migrant from El Salvador gets her chance in immigration court
Justice
Moms go on a hunger strike to get themselves and their kids out of immigration detention
Salvadoran military police stand guard outside a school in Soyapango's La Campanera neighborhood on the outskirts of San Salvador.
Conflict
Here’s why Salvadorans don’t reach for their cellphones to record police abuse
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971 to Cuban parents.
Global Politics
An El Salvador-born Rubio supporter says his candidate can fix broken immigration system
The town of Las Vueltas has almost no murders, but it does have a museum collection of guns and AK-47s that date back to El Salvador's civil war.
Justice
These isolated towns in dangerous El Salvador are murder-free zones
A passport that belonged to Sigfredo Chávez. Intipucá celebrates him as its first migrant to take off for the US.
Development
The Salvadoran town where migrants are hotly debated folk heroes
El Salvador's defense minister, General Rafael Humberto Larios, speaks during a news conference in San Salvador in a 1990 file photo. Larios and eight other former Salvadoran soldiers were arrested in 2011 for suspected involvement in the 1989 killing of
Conflict
How justice for slain Americans took a backseat to Cold War politics
Carlos Ramos
Justice
A teen’s parents are allowed to stay in the US, but he still faces deportation
Graffiti of the letters "MS", which stand for the street gang Mara Salvatrucha, photographed in San Salvador on April 22, 2014. Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Calle 18 are rival gangs that started in Los Angeles but now have a heavy presence in El Salvador.
Conflict
Gang violence awaits a teen from El Salvador after his failed attempts to reach the US
Salvadoran children at an after school violence prevention program created with money from USAID.
Global Politics
Migrants are being deported back to Central America, but their home countries aren’t ready for them
Arts, Culture & Media
How the US is trying to deter migrants from Central America — with music
Eight-year-old Susan Cruz enjoying her first Christmas in the United States in 1978.
Conflict & Justice
What does it take for a Salvadoran girl to make her way in America?
Sports
How to sound simultaneously English and Spanish at the World Cup
TK
Business, Economics and Jobs
‘You send your children away because, like human beings everywhere, you want them to have a decent life’
Young migrants from Central America held at the US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Arizona, on June 18, 2014. US officials provided media tours of two locations in Brownsville, Texas, and Nogales, that have been ce
Conflict & Justice
With young Central Americans fleeing to the US, history seems to be repeating itself
Young migrants from Central America held at the US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Arizona, on June 18, 2014. US officials provided media tours of two locations in Brownsville, Texas, and Nogales, that have been ce
Conflict & Justice
With young Central Americans fleeing to the US, history seems to be repeating itself
Alexandra from Guatemala shows a drawing she made at the shelter for underage immigrants and repatriated minors
Conflict & Justice
What’s driving an exodus of unaccompanied minors across the US-Mexico border?
Global Politics
California grandmother fights deportation after 30 years in United States
Salvadoran killed while waiting on U.S. immigration papers
El Salvador struggles to reduce gang violence while mother looks for kidnapped son
Arts, Culture & Media
Joy essential ingredient in party music from rural El Salvador
Conflict & Justice
A Grandmother Fights Deportation After 30 Years in the United States
Lifestyle & Belief
Gang Truce in El Salvador Reverberates in Los Angeles
Conflict & Justice
Salvadoran Killed While Waiting On US Immigration Papers
Global Politics
El Salvador Claims Violence Decline, Mother Still Looks for Kidnapped Son
Arts, Culture & Media
Salvadoran Chanchona Group Los Hermanos Lovo
Global Politics
US and El Salvador’s Deep, Not Always Friendly Ties
After War, El Salvador Confronts Ravaged Environment
Global Politics
Look ahead to El Salvador vote
Arts, Culture & Media
Global Hit