An alleged MS-13 thug accused of slaying five rival gang members in his native El Salvador was busted by ICE in Virginia, ...

Edwin Antonio Hernandez Hernandez of El Salvador was taken into custody by ICE in Virginia, Department of Homeland Security ...

Guatemalan police and soldiers are using new powers under a state of emergency to target the Barrio 18 gang in a high-crime ...

The worsening gang warfare in Guatemala has piled pressure on President Bernardo Arevalo to crack down on crime and root out ...

A "60 Minutes" segment on El Salvador's notorious megaprison that was pulled by CBS last month finally aired on Sunday, Jan. 18, weeks after the network pulled the segment just hours before its ...

A member of a gang dubbed "the worst in the world" has been slapped with a prison sentence of more than 1,300 years for his involvement in a catalogue of crimes including murder, trafficking, ...

Chile’s far-right President-elect José Antonio Kast visited El Salvador’s mega-prison for accused gang members ahead of a ...

El Salvador recorded its lowest homicide tally since tracking began, with government officials announcing 82 murders in 2025, a sharp drop from the previous year. Justice and Public Security Minister ...

Chicks chirp anxiously when Jade arrives to feed them. Since her father was detained in El Salvador’s anti-gang war, she has had to work on her grandmother’s farm and endure classmates saying her “dad ...

Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump administration and from their own voters, who point to the results from El ...

Guatemala's president declared a state of siege after gang violence led by the Barrio 18 gang left several police officers dead. Riots in prisons and retaliation attacks on police triggered the ...

“60 Minutes” aired an updated version of a critical segment on the Trump administration and El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison Sunday after it was pulled last month by editor in chief Bari Weiss.