18th Street or “Barrio 18,” is one of the most notorious and violent gangs in the Western Hemisphere. The group started back in the 1960s after Clanton 14, one of the oldest Hispanic gangs in the city ...

Federal agents carried out a raid and arrested “several members and associates” of the 18th Street Gang Thursday morning.

A wave of violence inside and outside prisons drew attention to President Bernardo Arévalo's fragile political balancing act ...

Experts documented murder, torture and disappearances under president Nayib Bukele’s policy targeting gangs ...

David Chávez and Jonathan Arias were both paralyzed after being shot by gang members in their youth in El Salvador. Now they are in the Paralympic Winter Games.

The White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller urged Latin American governments to fight drug cartels as if they were ...

Trump administration accused Luis Muñoz Pinto of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang. Now living in Colombia he hopes to clear his name and study engineering in the US ...

Xiomara Castro imposed a state of emergency similar to El Salvador’s, restricting rights and deploying the army in the ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on Thursday to dismiss the human smuggling charges against him.  He accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) of ...

A Vancouver man whose detention by federal immigration agents halted his January trial in Clark County Superior Court remains in a Texas holding facility awaiting deportation. Meanwhile, local prosecu ...

In Guatemala’s presidential runoff in August 2023, political outsider Bernardo Arévalo de León won 58 percent of the vote, beating establishment candidate and former First Lady Sandra Torres. The ...

Handpicked by Locals: 5 places to eat, drink and explore in Barrio Logan ...