SENSUNTEPEQUE, El Salvador — The people who stayed behind in this Salvadoran hill town, and those who fled to California’s San Joaquin Valley, think of each other with mixed emotions. Love and pain.

Joseph Riofrio still remembers the flash-bangs, bullhorns and a law enforcement armored humvee in the alley behind his house that startled him awake in the middle of the night five years ago -- it was ...

Public officials and relatives of Jesús Rojas Bermúdez and Loy Wendell attended a rededication ceremony of Rojas-Pierce Park in Mendota in 2008. Juan Esparza Loera Vida en el Valle File Photo The ...