U.S. authorities who have been tracking him for months are sure that Salvadoran gang member Élmer Canales Rivera, alias Crook and one of the most influential leaders of the MS13, is hiding in Colonia Santa Úrsula in Mexico City, near the legendary Azteca Stadium. This...
In November 2021, the gangs of El Salvador murdered 45 people in just three days to send a message to President Nayib Bukele, with whose administration they had been negotiating secretly since at least June of 2019. The massacre spanning from November 9, 10, and 11...
A prison intelligence report obtained by El Faro stated that a government driver and two guards made the transfer in a vehicle with license plate N-7877, corresponding to a Ford 2013 van assigned to the Prison Bureau, an institution led by Vice Minister of Security...
High-ranking Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13) sources confessed to El Faro their responsibility for killing 87 people between March 25 and 27 in El Salvador, including 62 of them on March 26, the most violent day in the past two decades. Spokespersons for MS-13 revealed...