El Salvador s ex-president Mauricio Funes was sentenced in absentia Monday to 14 years in prison for alleged secret negotiations held during his term with criminal gangs terrorizing the Central American nation.
El Salvador s President Nayib Bukele announced on Friday the arrests of three alleged gang members accused of killing a police officer whose death sparked a military siege of the northern town where the murder occurred earlier this month.
Korea s finance ministry said Wednesday it plans to provide a low-interest loan to support El Salvador s road construction project under ties with a Central American development bank.
El Salvador s President Nayib Bukele announced on Wednesday that the armed forces had imposed a security cordon around a town where suspected gangsters killed a police officer.
Mexico began returning the bodies of 40 migrants who died in a fire at a detention centre in the northern city of Juarez, the government said on Friday.