El Faro English has translated this photo essay, published in Spanish in November 2017, as MS-13 returns to the forefront of U.S. politics in Donald Trump’s second term. Read the accompanying ...

It is Apr. 15, 2025, and the leader of a country of just six million people is dominating headlines far beyond his borders. Yesterday, sitting in the Oval Office, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ...

Gioconda Belli, 2022. Previously unpublished. Translated by Max Granger. In June 2018, a mural outside the General Directorate of Income in Managua is spray-painted in condemnation of Nicaraguan ...

According to a recent report in the U.S. news site Politico, Nayib Bukele's visit to the White House may include discussion of a plan for El Salvador to cede part of its territory to the United States ...

“The people there weren’t armed. They were just women, children, and the elderly!” said key witness Sol. “I didn’t report this earlier because if I did, they would kill me,” said key witness Juan. In ...

Jesús Alberto Ríos Andrade, one of the Venezuelans sent by the Donald Trump administration to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador, is married to a U.S. citizen. When he was detained on ...

In April 2022, a woman received a WhatsApp message explaining the terms to visit a relative detained in Mariona Prison: “Be discreet. Don't comment on social media or to anyone because we’re putting ...

De acuerdo con un reportaje reciente en el periódico estadounidense Politico, la visita a la Casa Blanca de Nayib Bukele puede incluir la discusión de un plan para que El Salvador ceda parte de su ...

Cuando el secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, viajó a Centroamérica en febrero en su primer viaje oficial al extranjero, el presidente salvadoreño Nayib Bukele le hizo una oferta ...

El trabajo “Vida y muerte en un país sin derechos constitucionales” del fotoperiodista de El Faro, Carlos Barrera, gana el premio World Press Photo 2025, en la categoría de proyectos a largo plazo, en ...