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.

MEXICO CITY — Leading human rights activist, Ruth López, has been arrested in El Salvador, after the Attorney General's office accused her of embezzlement of state funds. López leads the anti ...

SAN SALVADOR — Their news site had just exposed details of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s alleged deals with the country’s gangs. Now the three journalists were faced with a choice they ...

Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md., confirmed to Fox News Digital that he will not travel to El Salvador following the deportation of the so-called "Maryland man," Kilmar Abrego Garcia. In Washington this ...

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 ...

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A federal appeals court has left in place an order requiring the Trump administration to seek the return of a Venezuelan man deported in March from the U.S. to a prison in El Salvador. A panel of ...

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 ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has ordered agencies in his state to boycott work with El Salvador amid the detention fight over Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Abrego Garcia’s detention in a Salvadoran prison ...

El Salvador’s Comisión Nacional de Activos Digitales (CNAD), the agency in charge of regulating digital assets in the Central American nation, is seeking to establish a cross-border regulatory ...

GENEVA - 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 potential human ...