U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has ...

The CARTEL Act would require more transparent reporting from U.S. Customs and Border Protection about cartels and gangs ...

Elmer De Jesus Alas Candray was promoted for his work killing suspected rivals and rebels within the Salvadoran group.

It comes after a harsh crackdown on the country's gangs by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele. Bukele suspended key ...

Cortez, 25, of Silver Spring, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole by the Circuit Court for ...

ICE Denver and Homeland Security Investigations officers arrested another suspected Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang member in ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order saying the United States will designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a move that could push a militarized agenda for the border ...

The order highlighted Mexican drug cartels and other Latin American criminal groups like Venezuela gang Tren de Aragua and Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), which it said “threaten the ...

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has offered to incarcerate criminals deported from the U.S. in the Central ...

The executive order did not name any cartels specifically, but highlighted other "transnational organizations" -- or gangs -- such as Tren de Aragua and La Mara Salvatrucha, known as MS-13.

The crackdown has fueled human rights criticisms but has resulted in a sharp drop in violence in El Salvador, once plagued by the warring Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18 gangs. Despite ...