El Salvador
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele delivers his annual address to the nation before Congress, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, June 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
El Salvador president wants Bitcoin as legal tender

Jun. 06, 2021 01:18 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021, file photo, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele speaks before the start of vaccination of medical staff with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Atlacatl Medical Unit of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute in San Salvador, El Salvador. Allies of Bukele, including his Cabinet chief, have been included in a list of senior officials in Central America deemed corrupt by the U.S. State Department, according to a copy of a report obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)
US steers El Salvador funding away from government

By Marcos Aleman May. 21, 2021 06:25 PM EDT

In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, airport workers unload a container of Chinese-made Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines from The New England Patriots team plane at the airport in San Salvador, El Salvador, late Tuesday, May 18, 2021. (El Salvador's presidential press office via AP)
New England Pats give flight to China's vaccine diplomacy

By Joshua Goodman May. 21, 2021 12:08 PM EDT

Marely, 12, of El Salvador, waits to be processed by authorities after turning herself in upon crossing the U.S. - Mexico border Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in La Joya, Texas. Growing numbers of migrant families are making the heart-wrenching decision to separate from their children and send them into the U.S. alone. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
'There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone

By Adriana Gomez Licon May. 15, 2021 11:37 AM EDT

Health Ministry trucks transport doses of COVID-19 vaccines that El Salvador's government is donating and delivering to neighboring Honduras, as they depart San Salvador, El Salvador, Thursday, May 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
El Salvador donates vaccine to desperate Honduras towns

By Marcos Aleman May. 13, 2021 05:24 PM EDT

El Salvador's Bukele says he'll donate vaccines to Honduras

May. 10, 2021 07:51 PM EDT
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday he will donate coronavirus vaccines to seven towns in Honduras even though his...

Technicians prepare Pfizer vaccines at the newly opened COVID-19 Vaccination Centre in Sydney, Australia, Monday, May 10, 2021. (James Gourley/Pool Photo via AP)
The Latest: N Korea again claims no coronavirus infections

By The Associated Press May. 10, 2021 02:36 AM EDT

Ex-Salvadoran legislator charged with dealing with gangs

May. 07, 2021 04:18 PM EDT
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A former legislator and presidential candidate apparently fled to Honduras Friday after he was charged with making a deal with...

Suecy Callejas, Vice President of the Congress, center, talks to an unidentified man during the first session in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, May 1, 2021. For the first time in three decades the traditional conservative and leftist parties have been sidelined by a resounding electoral defeat, clearing the way for President Nayib Bukele's party to help him advance his agenda. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
El Salvador's new assembly votes to oust high chamber judges

May. 01, 2021 11:06 PM EDT

Davidson Jair, 7, answers questions from a U.S. Border Patrol agent at an intake site after he was smuggled on an inflatable raft across the Rio Grande river in Roma, Texas, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Davidson traveled from El Salvador in the hope of reaching relatives living in the U.S. The Biden administration says that it's working to address the increase in migrants coming to the border. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House efforts at the U.S. southern border and work with Central American nations to address root causes of the migration. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
US envoy talks migration with El Salvador, VP calls Mexico

Apr. 07, 2021 04:17 PM EDT

Elmer Peraza listens to his mother, Iris Franco, at her home in El Ranchador, Santa Ana, El Salvador, Friday, March 5, 2021. Franco runs a bakery at home and delivers the bread on a bike. The Salvadoran family lives humbly but is in a better place thanks to financial support from a family member in the United States who is part of the Temporary Protected Status program. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
Immigrants with temporary status have grown deep roots in US

By Amy Taxin, Jeff Roberson And Marcos Alemán Apr. 02, 2021 01:09 AM EDT

Iris Franco, right, is joined by her mother, Elsa Victorina Franco, in El Ranchador, Santa Ana, El Salvador, Friday, March 5, 2021. Franco runs a bakery at home and delivers the bread on a bike. The Salvadoran family lives humbly but is in a better place thanks to financial support from a family member in the United States who is part of the Temporary Protected Status program. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
Immigrants with temporary status have grown deep roots in US

By Amy Taxin, Jeff Roberson And Marcos Alemán Apr. 02, 2021 01:05 AM EDT

President Nayib Bukele holds his ballots as he prepares to vote in local and legislative elections, at a polling station in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. El Salvador went to the polls in legislative and mayoral elections that could break the congressional deadlock that has tied the hands of President Nayib Bukele. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
El Salvador awaits what president will do with new power

By Marcos Alemán Mar. 12, 2021 06:48 PM EST

FILE - In this May 20, 2019, file photo, Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, from El Salvador, appears in Washoe District Court in Reno, Nev. Nevada’s Supreme Court wants to hear directly from lawyers on both sides in a death penalty dispute over how much more time public defenders should have to try to prove the Salvadoran immigrant is intellectually disabled and can't be executed if convicted of four 2019 Nevada killings. The justices have scheduled oral arguments April 7, 2021, on one of two appeals filed by lawyers representing Martinez-Guzman, 22. (Andy Barron/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, Pool, File)
Nevada Supreme Court mulls appeal in 2019 quadruple homicide

By Scott Sonner Mar. 11, 2021 04:56 PM EST

A poll worker with a missing hand, grabs ballots during local and legislative elections, at a polling place in the Zona Rosa district of San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. Sunday's elections in El Salvador are seen as a referendum on whether to break the congressional deadlock that has tied the hands of upstart populist President Nayib Bukele. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
El Salvador vote could strengthen president's rule

By Marcos Alemán Feb. 28, 2021 10:53 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele speaks before the start of vaccination of medical staff with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Atlacatl Medical Unit of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute in San Salvador, El Salvador. Since Bukele was elected, the hold that the opposition maintains on congress has been a point of constant frustration for the young president, but that could change on Feb. 28, 2021, when voters go to the polls in local and legislative elections that observers and surveys suggest could remake the country’s political landscape. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)
El Salvador election could remake political landscape

By Marcos Aleman Feb. 25, 2021 08:47 AM EST

A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus, walks past a banner at a park in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
The Latest: India finds new cases of a coronavirus variant

By The Associated Press Feb. 16, 2021 01:49 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2020 file photo, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, accompanied by members of the armed forces, speaks to supporters outside Congress in San Salvador, El Salvador. The Biden administration turned down a meeting request with El Salvador's president on an unannounced trip to Washington on the first week of Feb. 2021. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)
Sources: Biden officials snub Salvadoran leader in DC trip

By Joshua Goodman Feb. 08, 2021 06:19 PM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2019, file photo, Border Patrol agents stop men thought to have entered the country illegally, near McAllen, Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border. President Joe Biden rushed to send the most ambitious overhaul of the nation's immigration system in a generation to Congress and signed nine executive actions to wipe out some of his predecessor's toughest measures to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border. But a federal court in Texas suspended his 100-day moratorium on deportations. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Immigrants, activists worry Biden won't end Trump barriers

By Will Weissert And Nomaan Merchant Feb. 08, 2021 12:43 AM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2019, file photo, Border Patrol agents stop men thought to have entered the country illegally, near McAllen, Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border. President Joe Biden rushed to send the most ambitious overhaul of the nation's immigration system in a generation to Congress and signed nine executive actions to wipe out some of his predecessor's toughest measures to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border. But a federal court in Texas suspended his 100-day moratorium on deportations. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Immigrants, activists worry Biden won't end Trump barriers

By Will Weissert And Nomaan Merchant Feb. 08, 2021 12:40 AM EST