SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — After becoming the world’s murder capital last year and posting an equally bloody start to 2016, this violence-torn Central American nation has seen its monthly ...

Since 2014, more than 250,000 unaccompanied minors have made a dangerous journey to the U.S. from Central America, with 40 percent coming from El Salvador, where jobs are scarce and gangs are rampant.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes El Salvador’s passage of legislation to protect, aid and offer durable solutions to people internally displaced in the Central American nation due to violence ...