The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest economy in the region. With the global recession, real GDP contracted in 2009 and economic growth has ...

Jan 5 (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck El Salvador on Sunday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The quake was at a depth of 87 km (54.06 miles), EMSC said.

Security forces from Guatemala and El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Friday to reinforce a multinational mission tasked with tackling the country’s rampant gang violence, the Haitian National ...

El Salvador recorded only 114 homicides in 2024, a record low, prompting the president to call it “the safest country in the Western Hemisphere.” The new figures — lower per capita than the ...

His legacy, though, includes supporting a military regime in El Salvador during the beginning of the Salvadoran Civil War, including the assassination of Saint Óscar Romero. The United States ...

Port-au-Prince, HAITI (AFP) — More than 80 soldiers from Guatemala and El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Friday as part of the Kenyan-led multinational mission to bolster the national police force ...

El Salvador could build a mining sector with a relatively clean slate to shape mining law after the country's legislature overturned a seven-year ban on metals mining. The U-turn followed President ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador closed 2024 with a record low 114 homicides, continuing notable security gains under a second full year of a state of emergency that has given the ...

The country’s Attorney General announced the figure, with Bukele claiming it makes El Salvador the safest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Despite some countries not reporting their 2024 ...

El Salvador’s official total does not include the killings of five suspected gang members in shootouts with security forces. In March 2022, El Salvador’s notoriously powerful street gangs ...