Latest El Salvador News

Central American and Mexican families mourn the workers lost in the Baltimore bridge collapse

Mar. 28, 2024 02:09 AM EDT

AZACUALPA, Honduras (AP) — The construction workers who went missing in the Baltimore bridge collapse came to the Maryland area from Mexico or Central America, including an enterprising Honduran father and husband who started a delivery business before the pandemic forced him to find other work,...

El Salvador extends anti-gang emergency decree for 24th time. It's now been in effect for two years

Mar. 09, 2024 13:46 PM EST

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s lawmakers have granted a request by President Nayib Bukele for the 24th consecutive one-month extension of an anti-gang emergency decree. The vote by congress late Friday means that by March 27, the country will have spent a full...

Q&A: Julio Torres and Tilda Swinton on their surreal New York saga ‘Problemista’

Mar. 05, 2024 16:10 PM EST

Julio Torres mined his own life and experiences to make his feature directorial debut “ Problemista,” in which he plays an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador caught in the nightmarish Catch-22 of the U.S. immigration system. His character Alejandro desperately needs someone...

El Salvador's former leftist strongholds contemplate party's demise

Mar. 05, 2024 11:11 AM EST

SAN JOSÉ LAS FLORES, El Salvador (AP) — Nestled in the mountains of northern El Salvador, near the Honduras border, San José Las Flores has been a bastion of leftist resistance for decades. Now its residents, many veterans of the country’s civil war, fret over the seemingly...

Can conservative Latin American populists motivate the Hispanic vote? Republicans are counting on it

Feb. 28, 2024 11:49 AM EST

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — On a recent evening outside Washington, the president of Argentina had the eyes and ears of a conservative crowd that had gathered to listen to Donald Trump. In a raspy voice, Javier Milei called out, “Hola a todos,” or “Hello, everyone,” before introducing himself...

Trump calls himself a 'proud political dissident' in CPAC speech

Feb. 24, 2024 19:36 PM EST

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump cast November's presidential election as “judgment day” and declared himself a “proud political dissident” during a speech before conservative activists outside of Washington Saturday as he again cloaked his campaign in religious...

El Salvador's president gets rock-star welcome at conservative gathering outside Washington

Feb. 22, 2024 23:14 PM EST

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland (AP) — El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele received a rock-star welcome Thursday at a conservative gathering outside Washington as he urged people to “unapologetically fight” against what he called “dark forces.” At the annual Conservative...

Argentina to play exhibitions against El Salvador and Nigeria in the U.S., replacing China tour

Feb. 22, 2024 14:05 PM EST

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Argentina scheduled exhibitions against El Salvador and Nigeria in the United States next month as part of Copa America preparations, replacing a China tour canceled after Lionel Messi didn't play at Inter Miami's preseason game in Hong Kong. Argentina will play...

El Salvador's Bukele wins supermajority in Congress after painstaking vote count

Feb. 19, 2024 21:06 PM EST

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday. The announcement comes after a painstaking vote counting process, which...

The president jailed 1% of El Salvador's population. Their children are paying the consequences

Feb. 09, 2024 22:49 PM EST

SANTA ANA, El Salvador (AP) — Tears welled in Alex's eyes and he pressed his head into his hands as he thought about more than a year of birthdays and holidays without his mother, who was swept up by El Salvador's police as she walked to work in a clothing factory. “I feel very...