Entering Barrio 18, the powerful Central American street gang, can seem like a violent rebirth. Members get a new family, a community, and a sense of belonging and protection. But this comes at a cost ...

Critics are accusing the Trump administration of trying to dismiss charges against a MS-13 leader to deport him and prevent ...

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele on Saturday shared images of gang members in a mega-prison to discredit statements made by two leaders of the Quarter 18 gang to the digital newspaper The ...

For several months now, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has pursued a campaign of mass arrests. Under his recently extended state of emergency, police have arrested more than 43,000 people ...

On Tuesday, the Salvadoran police detained a 60-year-old woman in the west of the Central American country, identified as one of the “largest front persons” of the Barrio 18 gang, dedicated to ...

SAN SALVADOR — The MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs fought on the street outside Eben-ezer Baptist Church for years. Neighbors lost children. Pastor Nelson Moz led prayer services over the crackle of ...

Those arrests have come during a state of emergency, or state of exception, that Bukele declared last March after MS-13 and two different factions of Barrio 18 murdered 87 people in the span of 72 ...

It was a riot sparked when armed members of the Barrio 18 gang held back guards and attacked members of the rival Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), police said. The death toll in the country's only ...

Relatives said inmates at the facility had been threatened for weeks by members of the notorious Barrio 18 gang. Chillingly, the gang members were able to arm themselves with prohibited weapons ...

Carlos Cartagena Lopez, a leader of the Barrio 18 Revolutionaries, made the revelations while talking to El Faro, an outlet critical of Bukele. The now president launched a war on gangs in 2022 ...

Some 400 police were involved in the operation to move 225 members of the Barrio 18 gang out of the prison nicknamed "El Infiernito" or Little Hell, where they enjoyed access to such luxuries as ...