El Salvador

Trump’s Deadline for an Asylum Deal With Mexico Is Monday. Here’s What We Know

Donald Trump stood on the South Lawn of the White House on June 11, waving a folded piece of paper in front of the cameras that he said was an agreement with Mexico to address...

By Madeleine Joung July 20, 2019

Violence Against Women in El Salvador Is Driving Them to Suicide — Or to the U.S. Border

The reporting for this project was supported by the Pulitzer Center It’s hard to grasp the scale of El Salvador’s problem with gender violence. In the Central American country of just six million people, one...

By Ciara Nugent May 14, 2019

President Trump Threatens to Cut Off Foreign Aid Over Migrant Caravan

He also claimed without evidence that 'unknown Middle Easterners' are mixed in with the group

By Billy Perrigo October 22, 2018

Americans Say They're Proud of Their Roots in Trump's 'Shithole Countries'

"I'm proudly from the first #shithole country Donald Trump attacked"

By Ashley Hoffman January 12, 2018

Trump Decision Could Deport 200,000 Salvadorans

The Trump Administration is revoking protections that allowed some 200,000 El Salvadorans to live and work in the U.S. in the next 18 months. On Monday, the Trump Administration will announce that Temporary Protected Status...

By Maya Rhodan January 8, 2018

Trump Administration's Hard Line on Immigration Extends to Temporary Protections

The Trump Administration is moving to end a program that allowed some Nicaraguan citizens who fled after a natural disaster to stay in the U.S., as part of an overall stricter approach to immigration. The...

By Maya Rhodan November 7, 2017

A Teen Rape Victim in El Salvador Has Been Jailed 30 Years

Her baby was stillborn and the judge said that her not getting prenatal care amounted to homicide

By Kevin Lui July 6, 2017

How Trump's Deportation Crackdown Could Sink El Salvador

Outside El Salvador’s international airport, families gather by a guard post to see their loved ones who have been deported by plane from the United States. Wearing a straw hat in the blazing sun, Elsa...

By Ioan Grillo / San Salvador February 23, 2017

El Salvador Reports First Day Without Murders in Two Years

A rare break from the bloodshed in a country plagued by gang violence

By Kevin Lui January 13, 2017

A Castaway Who Survived 14 Months Lost at Sea Is Being Sued for Cannibalism

Alvarenga denies the allegation

By Tiare Dunlap / People December 17, 2015

El Salvador’s Kill Zone

Warring gangs have turned the country into one of the world’s deadliest places

By Ioan Grillo July 23, 2015

Meet the Crocodile 'Nanny' Who Is Trying to Preserve the Species

The crocodile "nanny" acts as mother to newly hatched crocs

By TIME Video July 2, 2015

El Salvador's Murder Toll Hits 10-Year High

The grim tally is now hitting record highs

By David Stout April 7, 2015

Powerful Earthquake Rocks Central America

One fatality but no major damage reported

By Per Liljas October 14, 2014

Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 10

1. With U.S. support, El Salvador is using community policing to address skyrocketing gang crime. By Jude Joffe-Block in Fronteras 2. A new tool designed to flag bogus stories online might help combat rampant misinformation....

By The Aspen Institute October 10, 2014

The High-Stakes Struggle for Border-Crossing Kids

The children fleeing violence in Central America are desperate, but are they refugees?

By Susan Ferriss and Amy Isackson / Los Angeles October 8, 2014

El Salvador Priest Slapped With More Charges for Assisting Gang Members

The Catholic official is accused of helping hardened criminals get lesser sentences and continue extorting their victims

August 5, 2014

Obama: Non-Refugee Migrant Kids Will Be Sent Back

An estimated 90,000 migrant children could cross into the U.S. before September. The President met with leaders of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to discuss ways to slow the influx

By Zeke J Miller July 25, 2014

Children at the Border

An exodus from Central America tests the U.S.

By Michael Scherer June 19, 2014

Evacuations Ordered Near El Salvador Volcano

Approximately 1,000 people have been relocated from villages near a volcano in the country's far south that reportedly began expelling reddish ash on Monday

By David Stout May 20, 2014

Salvadoran Man Returns Home With Fish Tale of the Ages

Family greets man who spent a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean

By Per Liljas February 12, 2014

Castaway Released From Hospital

Too sick to travel back to El Salvador, doctors say

By Charlotte Alter February 7, 2014

Castaway is Back in the Hospital

A man who said he was lost at sea for 13 months sees his health worsen

By Maddy Fry / London February 6, 2014

Castaway Fisherman 'Survives 13 Months' at Sea on Turtle Blood and Fish

Jose Salvador Albarengo, 37, a fisherman from El Salvador, told officials that he survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean, drinking turtle blood and catching fish with his bare hands. Albarengo said...

By TIME Video February 3, 2014

El Salvador

Why El Salvador Is Doubling Down on Bitcoin

Journalists Are Under Threat in El Salvador. I Know Because I Was Targeted

El Salvador's President Bukele Uses Bitcoin for a Rebrand

Inside a Prison Cell for Gay Former Gang Members in El Salvador