SECURITY · EL SALVADOR The verdict is one of several group sentences the FGR has announced this month. Together they show how President Nayib Bukele’s government is turning mass arrests into mass convictions. The defendants belonged to what prosecutors call the…
SECURITY · EL SALVADOR A Barrio 18 leader has been sentenced to 45 years in prison in El Salvador, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) said on 2 October 2026. Luis Mario Fabián Ramos was convicted together with 24 other members of the gang. The Second Organised…
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele announced Wednesday that his government had launched a military operation in Haiti to rescue four Salvadoran Air Force personnel missing since Sunday, warning armed gangs of further action if the men were not returned alive.
September 12, 2026 Hour: 6:26 am El Salvador has handed down its first life sentence, with a court in San Salvador sentencing a 31-year-old man to life imprisonment for aggravated homicide under reforms introduced earlier this year. RELATED: Hidden Costs of Bukele Prison…
At this writing the CACCO as it is officially called, for Centro de Alta Contención y Crimen Organizado (High-Security Center and Organized Crime Unit) waits expectantly for its new inhabitants. I am all for putting the worst of the worst…
The operation is part of an investigation into whether public officials improperly helped developers obtain construction permits and rights to use coastal land. The investigation involves nine people, including Santa Cruz Mayor Jorge Arturo Alfaro Orias and his son, Jorge…
The Washington Post The Salvadorans, members of the U.N.-backed Gang Suppression Force, came under attack in Croix-des-Bouquets, where 17 members of a U.S. missionary group were abducted in 2021. Four Salvadoran members of the United Nations-backed Gang Suppression Force in Haiti remain missing…
A Panama health center shooting left two patients wounded on Saturday 17 October 2026, the Ministry of Health (Minsa) said. It happened in the waiting room of the Veracruz Health Center in Panamá Oeste province. Panamá Oeste lies just west of the…
Costa Rica extradited three Mexican men to the United States on Friday to face drug charges that authorities have linked to the Sinaloa Cartel. The handover came two days after the country turned over a Russian national wanted by US…
Costa Rica has made fighting drug trafficking a main goal, inspired by El Salvador's hardline approach On Wednesday, President Laura Fernández inaugurated a mega-prison that emulates the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) that has become a symbol of Salvadoran President Nayib…
Crime in Central America: El Salvador's gang crackdown and CECOT, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica and their gangs.
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