The victory of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) in last Sunday's presidential election in El Salvador has brought the political party formed by the former left-wing guerrilla ...

Our 2025 Homicide Round-Up is Now Live. What’s really driving the trends behind the numbers? Join our exclusive event on March 26, where our experts unpack the organized crime dynamics shaping ...

San Salvador – El Salvador’s largest opposition party, the leftist FMLN, announced the death of its long-time leader – Schafik Handal – on Tuesday evening after he suffered a fatal heart attack ...

On Sunday night, the scene inside a Mission Street storefront could have been 7,000 miles away in a village on the foot of a volcano. More than 100 Salvadorans wearing the red and black colors of the ...

On March 15, citizens of El Salvador elected -- for the first time in the nation's history -- a president hailing from the political left. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In response to a dramatic rise in the homicide rate, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) government in El Salvador has imposed greater militarization in the streets and a state of ...

On March 11, hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans headed to the polls in the first major contest between parties of the right and left since the leader of the latter, Mauricio Funes, was elected ...

Join us this April 27 for an exclusive event for donors. Our experts will share analysis and recent data, and answer your questions about projections for 2026. A series of videos showing officials ...

Last weekend (March 9), Salvadorans voted in the country’s runoff elections to choose the next president of El Salvador. And today (March 13), the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) officially ...

Respected researcher and former Washington Post journalist Douglas Farah on Tuesday testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism that operatives of the Salvadoran ruling FMLN ...