SAN SALVADOR, May 19 (Reuters) - El Salvadoran authorities have arrested a prominent human rights and anti-corruption lawyer over accusations of embezzlement while she served as a state official.

Mr. Chicas, a former president of El Salvador’s supreme electoral tribunal who also served as a press secretary to former President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, was arrested in February on charges ...

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SAN SALVADOR — Their ... among Salvadorans. But El Faro has published convincing evidence that “his rise to political power,” in Lemus’s words, “went hand in hand with criminal ...

The state of Illinois is considering cutting business ties with El Salvador in response to how that country is working with the Trump administration to hold migrants in prison after they were ...

(Reuters) - Venezuelans held in a high-security prison in El Salvador shouted “freedom” and used a hand signal for help in a video published by the far-right One America News Network ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have blocked a Democratic resolution to require more transparency from the Trump administration about deportations to El Salvador. The vote Thursday was the ...

El Salvador has now been under the 30-day measure for three years. The country has imprisoned more than 100,000 people detained in facilities designed to hold 70,000. Its overall incarceration ...

By Michael S. Schmidt Alan Feuer Zolan Kanno-Youngs Maggie Haberman and Maria Abi-Habib The Trump administration recently sent a diplomatic note to officials in El Salvador to inquire about ...

GENEVA, May 13 (Reuters) - The United Nations has information that over 100 Venezuelans deported from the United States are being held at a high-security centre in El Salvador, where they face ...

But that would never happen. Escalona was transferred to Guantanamo Bay and then sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador on March 30 under Title 8 authorities, according to the family ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered the state to review any investments and business with El Salvador, a move that could lead to a boycott over the Central American nation's assistance with the ...