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110 arrested in El Salvador over money laundering scheme

Salvadoran officials on Monday announced the arrest of 110 members of an alleged international money laundering ring operating in the Central American country. Almost all...

IMF warns El Salvador against risks of adopting bitcoin as legal currency

WASHINGTON, United States—The International Monetary Fund has warned El Salvador—the only country to adopt bitcoin as a legal currency—against the risks involved in expanding...

El Salvador deploys 2k soldiers, cops amid huge gang crackdown

San Salvador—More than 2,000 soldiers and police surrounded two districts in El Salvador’s capital on Saturday as part of President Nayib Bukele’s war on...

In El Salvador, soldiers patrol where gangs once ruled

Mauricio Gonzalez, an Evangelical pastor in a Salvadoran city overrun with violent street gangs, says life there used to be terrifying. In his La Campanera...

UN rights body ‘concerned’ over El Salvador gang measures

The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday expressed concern about El Salvador's approach to combating gang violence, pointing to...

El Salvador declares state of emergency over spike in gang killings

El Salvadoran lawmakers on Sunday declared a state of emergency at President Nayib Bukele's request, expanding police powers and curtailing civil liberties as the...

Court orders ex-El Salvador leader’s arrest

SAN SALVADOR -- A judge in El Salvador ordered the arrest Friday of former president Alfredo Cristiani for alleged links to the murder of...

Thousands march in El Salvador to demand abortion rights

San Salvador―Around 2,000 women marched in El Salvador’s capital on Sunday to demand the legalization of abortion and a decrease in the killings of...

Chile moves towards decriminalizing elective abortion

Chile's lower house of Congress on Tuesday approved a bill to decriminalize abortion within 14 weeks of pregnancy, a major step towards legalization of...

In world first, bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador

San Salvador—El Salvador on Tuesday becomes the first country in the world to accept bitcoin as legal tender, despite widespread domestic skepticism and international...

Funeral held for Salvadoran killed by Mexican police

A Salvadoran woman who died at the hands of Mexican police was buried Sunday in the southwest of El Salvador, in the presence of...

Iota, weakened but deadly, rips through Central America

Storm Iota has killed at least nine people as it smashed homes, uprooted trees and swamped roads during its destructive advance across Central America,...

Deadly Tropical Storm Amanda hits El Salvador, Guatemala

Tropical Storm Amanda, the first named storm of the season in the Pacific, killed at least 14 people as it lashed El Salvador and...

Accept repatriated migrants, US warns

Washington"•A senior official warned Monday that Washington will retaliate against countries that don’t accept repatriations of their citizens from the United States. The official, speaking...
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