President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has brought peace to El Salvador, but the price, some Salvadorans say, has been the loss of civil liberties. “We used to be afraid of the gangs,” says one ...

In November 2022, a man in El Salvador believed he had few options: be snatched off the street by police or testify against Massachusetts members of MS-13, the criminal organization responsible for ...