Bill Esparza is a James Beard award-winning food journalist, author of LA Mexicano, and onscreen food television personality covering food in United States and Latin America. On May 9, 2022, then Los ...

La Unión’s two ports and its Pacific coastline are routinely used by cocaine smugglers moving drugs north in boats and submarines. In addition, the department’s leaky land border with Honduras lies on ...

They found the sergeant’s severed head on a bridge. His name was Baltazar Olayzola Diaz, and he had served with the Soyapango municipal police force. Baltazar’s beheading, the national police chief ...

Translated from Spanish, La Esperanza means 'hope,' but looking through a series of poignant photographs taken inside the infamous men's prison in El Salvador that bears that name, one cannot see ...

Ana Yency Lemús says her grandmother was pulled out of school in El Salvador at the age of 8 after experiencing physical violence and insults over her dark complexion and curly hair. “Today we call ...

More than 6,000 Salvadorans living in Massachusetts with temporary immigration status face potential deportation next year, when the humanitarian program allowing them to live in the U.S. expires. We ...

Members of the co-existence committee at the Hacienda La Labor school in Ahuachapán, El Salvador. Photo: Oscar Leiva/Oxfam America Chris Hufstader reports from El Salvador, where young ...

Located just 25 miles or so south of the capital, San Salvador, La Libertad and its main wave, Punta Roca, are the anchors of El Salvador’s surf scene on the Costa del Balsamo. There are at least a ...

More than a dozen confidential reports from El Salvador’s National Civil Police obtained by InSight Crime reveal that, although “weakened” after a year and a half under a state of exception, the three ...

For decades, life choices were bleak for many in El Salvador: Leave or die. Dubbed the “murder capital of the world,” there was an average of a homicide an hour in early 2016, in this country of just ...