The El Salvador Model, while effective in rapidly reducing crime rates, has raised significant human rights concerns and questions about its long-term sustainability.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele's anti-gang campaign has yielded tangible results—homicide rates have dropped ...

Ana Mercedes Garcia has barely slept since her son was taken away three years ago, one of tens of thousands of men to have disappeared inside El Salvador's grim prisons since 2022.For Garcia, who did ...

Under the guise of fighting organized crime, El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele has ruled with an iron fist under an authoritarian state of exception, and leaders in neighboring countries are ...

By bnl editorial staff Costa Rica's decision to construct a mega-prison modelled on El Salvador's controversial Cecot facility represents a fundamental shift away from the nation's democratic ...

President Nayib Bukele has expanded his efforts to remake his country to students’ appearance as part of bringing discipline ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Our country is an example to the world of peace, confidence and optimism,” proclaimed El Salvador’s ...

Costa Rica will begin construction this year on a new maximum-security prison inspired by the El Salvador mega-prison at the center of that country's crackdown on crime, Costa Rica's Justice Minister ...

President Trump’s approach to governance borrows from the authoritarian leaders of El Salvador and Hungary, Vox senior correspondent Zack Beauchamp writes.

The same Brazilian advertising hotshot who worked his magic to get a left-winger elected president of El Salvador in 2009 is running the presidential campaign of national socialist Ollanta Humala ...