In Central America, the violent gangs that control many marginalized communities often single out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people – extorting, threatening and sometimes ...

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling on El Salvador to protect the rights of three Salvadoran men ...

In El Salvador, in the wake of the Trump administration’s new immigration policies, many understand they run a real risk of deportation from the U.S. if they do immigrate illegally. However, ...

A report by Human Rights Watch and Central American rights group Cristosal alleges that dozens of Venezuelans deported from the US to a Salvadoran prison earlier this year were subjected to torture ...

In recent weeks, El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, made headlines for renting out the country's mass prison to the United States. In March and April, under US President Donald Trump, the United ...

As the White House toys with the no-joke prospect of actually invading Venezuela out of (understandable) ire at the ...

In a pastoral letter that seems to take a shot at both the U.S. government and its own, the Salvadoran Catholic bishops' conference said El Salvador's prisons shouldn't be used to advance another ...

Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador issued a pair of petitions for lawmakers during a Mass celebrated for the feast of the Divine Savior, observed in the country to commemorate the ...