El Salvador

Crowning Moment: Who is Rikki Kollé, the first transgender model to win the Miss Netherlands contest?

Rikki Kollé has been named Miss Netherlands 2023, making history as the first transgender woman to win the title. The 22-year-old Dutch-Moluccan model underwent gender-affirming surgery in January. She changed her name from Rik to Rikkie when she was 11

El Salvador soccer stadium stampede kills 12

Authorities said initial reports pointed to a crush of fans who tried to enter Cuscatlan Stadium in the Central American country's capital San Salvador to watch a local tournament match between teams Alianza and FAS

El Salvador: Nine dead in stadium stampede at soccer match

"The number of deaths after the stampede at the Cuscatlan Stadium amounts to nine," the National Civil Police posted on Twitter

Human rights body urges El Salvador's government to lift year-long suspension of constitutional rights

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), a branch of the Washington-based Organization of American States, issued a statement urging President Nayib Bukele and his congressional supporters to restore rights suspended under the so-called state of exception

Inter-American Court of Human Rights to hear abortion rights case for the first time

El Salvador will be in the dock before the Costa Rica-based IACHR for alleged human rights violations and 'torture' for forcing a woman identified only as 'Beatriz' to carry a non-viable fetus for nearly three months despite a risk to her health

Second group of prisoners transferred to El Salvador new mega-jail

The prison was built to accommodate some of the 65,000 suspected gangsters detained as part of the war on crime launched last year by Bukele, who ordered a state of emergency a year ago, allowing arrests without warrants in the violence-plagued country

Watch: El Salvador moves thousands of alleged gang members to ‘mega prison’

Some 63,000 presumed gang members have been rounded up since President Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency months ago, allowing arrests without warrants in the violence-plagued country

El Salvador opens America's largest prison, claims it's 'impossible to escape' from

El Salvador president Nayib Bukele also shared a video of the massive prison

Troops surround two districts in San Salvador amid massive gang crackdown

Images released Saturday by the office of the president showed heavily armed soldiers entering Tutunichapa, a populous district where small houses mostly constructed of concrete blocks stand alongside one of the many polluted streams that run through San Salvador

Explained: Why El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment has proven to be a spectacular failure

A year ago, El Salvador became the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender. However, today just 20 per cent of the population use it for transactions, making it a cautionary tale of what happens when a country adopts a cryptocurrency