The structure and operations of El Salvador’s Barrio 18 street gang increasingly resemble that of a corporation. Government investigations reveal the gang is keeping careful accounting records of ...

The only problem was that it wasn’t MS-13 that carried out the massacre. It was a gang known as Barrio 18. Members of Barrio 18 are transported after their arrest during a joint operation by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier in April, Carlos Cartagena Lopez, a leader of the Barrio 18 Revolutionaries, revealed details of a deal with Bukele to help propel him to power and keep him there. The now president ...

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 ...