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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
Haitians line up outside an immigration office as they wait their turns to apply for a passport, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 10, 2023.
Conflict & Justice
‘Haiti has zero elected officials’ as cholera, gang violence persist, journalist says
Supporters of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse protest to demand justice in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Justice
Haitians face a ‘very dire climate’ one year after Moïse’s assassination, journalist says
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
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
Hundreds of inmates are shown wearing only underware and sitting crammed together in rows.
Justice
El Salvador lines up semi-naked gang members for grim prison photos
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
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
Prisoners flash the MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang hand sign from inside a jail cell at a police station in San Salvador.
Conflict
The ‘alien threat’ street gang MS-13 was actually made in the USA
Handwritten notations on a school resource officer's police report tagged Lemus as a member of the 18th Street gang.
Conflict
On Nantucket, a teenage migrant gets swept up in a crackdown on Salvadoran gangs
Man in baseball cap, close up, sitting at table with microphone and other panelists.
Justice
The US government is targeting MS-13, but a former gang member says arrests alone won’t solve the problem
Agents surround man up against a wall, on has "Homeland Security Investigations POLICE Gang Unit" on his vest
Global Politics
Social workers and lawyers say deportation raids targeting teen gang members are misguided
Residents of Chicago's Englewood neighborhood gather for a candlelight vigil against gun violence.
Conflict
This new book looks at all the kids killed by gun violence on a random day in America
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
A worker paints a coffin at El Nuevo Renacer factory in Jucuapa, El Salvador.
Business
In one of the deadliest countries in the world, there’s one business thriving — the coffin industry
Joey G - Brockton
Education
Stopping the school-to-prison pipeline: Here’s how one city is doing it
project fatherhood
Lifestyle
Project Fatherhood is uniting the men of LA’s toughest communities
Onlookers stand behind a police cordon as a policeman stands guard at a crime scene in Garcia, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico.
Conflict
Mexico’s drug kingpins are being taken out, but crime is still rising
The Real Sons of Anarchy, Bounty Hunting Terrorists, and Extreme Passion
Full Episode
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?
TK
Business, Economics and Jobs
‘You send your children away because, like human beings everywhere, you want them to have a decent life’
Students at COSAT shave each other's heads
Development & Education
School Year: A dress code to keep the ‘gangsters’ away
El Salvador struggles to reduce gang violence while mother looks for kidnapped son
Business, Economics and Jobs
How to stop the spread of violence
Global Politics
El Salvador Claims Violence Decline, Mother Still Looks for Kidnapped Son
Conflict & Justice
Pickpockets Target London Games
Conflict & Justice
How to stop gang violence: lessons from Chicago for the UK