Salvador Perez became the 10th player in major league history to hit 200 homers as a catcher and Ryan Yarbrough allowed one run in six innings, lifting the Kansas City Royals to a 5-3 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Monday night.
The State Department announced Wednesday it was imposing sanctions on two former Salvadoran presidents and dozens of other officials and judges in Central America. The report said that those sanctioned “have knowingly engaged in actions that undermine democratic processes or institutions, significant
An El Salvador court sentenced former President Mauricio Funes Wednesday to six years in prison for tax evasion, the second time in barely more than a month that a court has sentenced the ex-leader in absentia. Prosecutors had asked for an eight-year
El Salvador has swept up a number of foreign nationals in a widespread crackdown on criminal activity, allegedly including Americans in those arrests. “The Department of State has no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas,” a State
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Thursday he wants to cut the number of municipalities in the country from 262 to 44 to reduce the tax burden. The proposal would require the approval of the country’s Legislative Assembly, in which Bukele’s party
Police in El Salvador have arrested the president of soccer club Alianza, as well as other club officials and stadium personnel, in connection with a stampede that left 12 fans dead last weekend. The Attorney General’s Office said Thursday that Alianza President
A stampede at a soccer stadium in El Salvador on Saturday left at least nine people dead and hundreds of others injured, officials said. The deadly crush happened as fans reportedly pushed through an access gate during a Salvadoran league quarterfinal match
More than 5,000 soldiers and 500 police encircled a small town in northern El Salvador after President Nayib Bukele said Wednesday gang members had killed a member of the national police there. Bukele said via Twitter that the deployment in Nueva Concepción,
El Salvador continues to fill up its mega-prison, adding another 2,000 inmates as the government vows they will “never return” to the streets. “They are never going to return to the communities, the neighborhoods, the barrios, the cities of our beloved El