The gang operates with a military-style hierarchy on both sides of the Juárez-El Paso Borderland. Some seven years ago, a split among gang leadership created a division within the gang ...

A reputed drug cartel enforcer accused of executing a woman on the side of a New Mexico highway for a failed drug smuggling attempt was denied bond.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month is the latest example of how special powers given to ...

With the gangs’ severely weakened by the government’s own accounts, human rights organizations in El Salvador – like Cristosal where López worked – and from abroad like the Inter-American ...

El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month is the latest example of how special powers given to President Nayib Bukele to battle the ...