SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Rural schoolteacher turned rebel commander Salvador Sanchez Ceren was sworn in as president of El Salvador on Sunday, becoming the first former guerrilla will lead the ...

During half a decade of civil war, no part of El Salvador has been more fiercely contested than rugged and isolated northern Morazán province. The area is now a stronghold for antigovernment rebels, ...

Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg worked as a Time magazine contract photographer for nearly 30 years, specializing in political and cultural change in developing countries. His black-and-white ...

A court in El Salvador has asked the prosecutor's office to investigate whether President Nayib Bukele and his defense minister blocked a judicial inspection of military archives aimed at uncovering ...

As a teenager, Leonor Marquez led a fleet-footed unit of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerrilla fighters through the steep mountain passes of Perkin, El Salvador. “We were ...

Salvadoran military files from the time of a 1981 massacre of 1,000 people during the country's civil war have been mostly destroyed, said El Salvador's president, who vowed to make the few surviving ...

2001-01-21 04:00:00 PDT San Marcos Lempa, El Salvador-- Amid the shards and rubble of town after town throughout the lower Lempa River Valley, much more has been wrecked than homes and lives. Last ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A onetime rural schoolteacher who became a rebel commander during El Salvador’s long civil war was sworn in as president Sunday, the first former guerrilla to lead the ...

Guerrillas from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP) speak with residents of San Agustín, Usulután department, on July 5, 1983. Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg worked as a Time magazine ...