When President Nayib Bukele announced a sweeping “state of exception” in El Salvador in March 2022, he promised an end to the country’s long-standing nightmare: the grip of brutal street gangs like MS ...
An immigration enforcement operation took a dramatic turn on Monday when a suspected MS-13 gang member, attempting a ...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) – El Salvador’s legislature has approved a new law that would impose up to 15 years in prison on anyone who negotiates with or offers benefits to street gangs. The ...
A suspected member of the notorious MS-13 street gang was arrested this week in Hamilton, officials announced. According to a statement from an unnamed ICE spokesperson, Salvador Hernandez-Solorzano, ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Trump administration Tuesday designated the Barrio 18 gang as a foreign terrorist organization, ...
Margarita Ramirez* knew who it was when she heard the loud thuds on her front door. She opened it a crack and saw several members of the Barrio 18 street gang which ruled her neighbourhood. “Where’s ...
Before the indictments by Donald Trump’s chosen criminal prosecutor Lindsey Halligan stole the spotlight in the New World of ...
Juan Barrera* fled El Salvador alone when he was just 16. It was 1990 and, like thousands of others, the civil war forced him from his home. Juan bounced around Central America for years, scraping by ...
On New Year’s Eve, a group of migrants crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into Maverick County and surrendered to Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and National Guard soldiers patrolling the ...