“He is in charge of mobilizing his gang’s weapons,” said the officer. With the “war” against gangs declared by Bukele in March 2022, almost 72,000 alleged gang members are in prison in El Salvador ...

For almost a year, El Salvador has lived under what the government calls a state of exception, like an exception to the rules. Authorities suspended some basic civil rights. The government jailed ...

In El Salvador, children have been subjected to serious human rights violations under President Nayib Bukele’s violent crackdown on gangs. That’s according to Human Rights Watch, which has ...

During El Salvador’s brutal civil war, hundreds of children were separated from their families. Some were seized by soldiers during military operations against left-wing rebels, and later found ...

MEXICO CITY — Thousands of poverty-stricken children in El Salvador have suffered arbitrary ... shambles following 12 deadly years of civil war. Children have been victims of gangs as well ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador is experiencing one of the worst human rights crises since the country’s 1980-1992 civil war, because of President Nayib Bukele ’s harsh anti-gang ...

At the end of El Salvador's civil war human rights investigators began the search for hundreds of children reportedly kidnapped by the army during anti-guerrilla operations. In early 1994 ...

Eight months since El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced ... immigrants who had fled their homeland amid a violent civil war funded in part by the United States. It grew to include ...

Flor and Jazmin were among many children separated from their parents during El Salvador's civil war, and put up for adoption in the US and Europe. Now, nearly 40 years later, they and many others ...

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war... Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg worked as a ...

This work attempts to establish a visual and contextual foundation of the violent early years of the nation’s civil war, helping explain the eventual departure of many of El Salvador’s ...