El Salvador's evangelical churches rehabilitated ex-gang members. The country's crackdown on L.A.-born gangs like MS-13 emptied programs and filled prisons.
From a bestselling migration memoir to an acclaimed novel of suburbia, political poetry and essays and on and on, Salvadoran writers are having a big moment.
Human Rights Watch says it has a database leaked from El Salvador's government that corroborates due process violations, prison overcrowding and deaths in custody.