The people of El Salvador lived in fear of gangs for decades. Then President Nayib Bukele decided enough was enough. What happened next was a miracle, and all it took was la mano dura: an iron first. The gangs disappeared—there one week and gone the next.

Costa Rica's security minister toured El Salvador's maximum-security gang prison on Friday as part of his review to reduce violence by powerful street gangs.

We’re confident that people that are [imprisoned in El Salvador] should be there, and they should stay there for the rest of their lives,” Noem said after an Immigration and

El Salvador says it shares intelligence with the United States about gang members wanted by the Central American nation and provides “complete records” on them before formally requesting their deportation.

A disgraced former Milwaukee cop helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan stylist sent to a prison in El Salvador , according to report reviewed by USA TODAY.

Andry Hernandez Romero cried out for his mother as guards at El Salvador’s CECOT shaved his head when he arrived at the prison notorious for human rights violations, a photojournalist who captured images of the intake process said.