The Trump administration was offering some undocumented immigrants the option to self-deport – but in narrow circumstances ...

Extraordinary violence is among the factors pushing Central Americans north toward the U.S. In El Salvador, rival gangs like MS-13 and the 18th Street Gang kill thousands per year, despite a harsh ...

El Salvadoran families are happy to have their children home, but many don't have faith their life in the tiny country will continue for the better. El Salvador is struggling to stay on top of the ...

Five years ago, when working on my "Travel as a Political Act" book in El Salvador, I visited Beatriz, a hard-working single mother. She was struggling to raise two daughters with dignity in the ...

Only 9% of the world’s children live in the region, but 29% of all child homicides occur there – nearly 25,000 victims each year. [i] This homicide rate is over three times the global average. Four of ...

PBS NewsHour Weekend producer Brian Epstein recalls his recent trip to El Salvador, where the rise of violent gangs has pushed Salvadorans to seek asylum in the U.S.

In El Salvador, you don’t know if you’ll make it home alive at the end of the day. I took three buses to get to college, and on each one, I called my mom telling her about my whereabouts until I ...

Family members of two Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador's infamous CECOT mega-prison are requesting the government for proof of life of their loved ones.

But El Salvador is saturated with invisible gang-related boundaries, and, for Salvadorans, crossing a given street can be a matter of life and death.

Gang life in the poor Central American country of El Salvador is hard, but for a dozen former members of the feared 18th Street Gang, building a new life outside is no less difficult.

El Salvador — poverty amidst beauty. The contrast hit me when our group of Habitat for Humanity volunteers set foot in the smallest, yet most densely populated country in Central America.