Alejandro Santos Cid

The lack of electricity and security after hurricane ‘Otis’ has created neighborhood patrols that watch the streets to prevent further looting, but also attract violent characters who are suspicious of any stranger

Residents of Pie de la Cuesta, Mexico, a working-class neighborhood that caters to tourists in neighboring Acapulco, are struggling to survive without water, electricity and barely any food, one week after disaster hit

The Mexican guerrilla leader, who adopted the name Galeano in 2014, will step back to pave the way for a new generation

The brutal murders in the community of Malpaso, in the north-central state, underscore how drug cartels control large swathes of the country

The families of the six teenagers who were murdered in the Mexican town of Malpaso have buried their dead. They are filled with rage, but they are also fearful, due to the presence of informants from organized crime at the funerals

The massacre of six young people reveals how organized crime has imposed its rule over a Mexican state that is plagued by everyday violence and a war between cartels

Only one youth, whose identity has not been confirmed, survived and is in the hospital with multiple head injuries

The youngsters were seized by an armed group early Sunday morning. Nobody knows where they are or the reason for the crime

The intensification of anti-narcotics operations in key areas of the Mexican state – such as along the border with Guatemala, or in the Lacandona jungle – has resulted in the umpteenth escalation in the armed conflict. In this seriously wounded state, tensions are ready to explode

Authorities assure the victims’ families that the corpses will be recovered within the next few months

EL PAÍS visited the Indigenous Zapotec leader inside his prison cell. According to the UN, he was convicted and jailed for a fabricated murder: ‘The real reason for the arrest and prosecution of López Alavez is his activity as a defender of the human rights of his community’

EL PAÍS reconstructs the rescue of the veteran sailor, who was stranded for months in the Eastern Pacific, based on interviews with the members of the crew that saved him

The Mexican journalist talks about his assassination attempt, the chaos of the moment, the six months that have passed, the president’s attacks and the stagnation of the investigation: ‘Someone tried to kill me. I don’t know who, I don’t know why’

In a statement signed by 1,000 leading figures, including Noam Chomsky and Diego Luna, the EZLN say that they are coming under attack from paramilitary groups, who act with the ‘passive and active complicity’ of the authorities

At least one person has died after an outbreak similar to that seen in Durango. Mexico’s authorities have reported 23 cases, nine in U.S. patients and 14 in Mexicans

Experts in pharmacology, anthropology and medicine explain what it is, its effects, how it is consumed, the torture of withdrawal and the risks of overdosing

Photographer César Rodríguez shines a light on the effect of market changes in the demand for illegal drugs on communities that survived by cultivating in the mountains of Guerrero

As Easter Week kicked off, murders in Cancún and Acapulco forced the government to deploy troops to the country’s major tourist centers

The extradition to the United States of Jorge Iván Gastélum, hitman and great strategist, means the fall of “the last piece on El Chapo’s chessboard”

The US Treasury Department says Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada’s lieutenant is ‘responsible for coordinating the purchase and transportation of cocaine and methamphetamine from Sinaloa to Arizona and California’

EL PAÍS has received exclusive access to the police testimony of Margarita María Ochoa, whose husband and two nephews were killed by squatters in the historic Roma neighborhood

The woman identified as Rebeca is a friend of the other four arrested suspects and was located through mobile phone tracking

Two women and a man who lived in the home with the victims have been arrested for the crime

Eleven young women and one man have died so far and there have been more than 60 infections reported after a fungus was found in several batches of anesthetic

In his acclaimed novel, Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño immortalized Mexico City’s 1970s poet counterculture, turning his fellow rebel-writers into icons and objects of criticism. EL PAÍS spoke with the movement’s living members, now in their 60s, to see what they’re up to today

Amnesty International says that President Nayib Bukele is using the state of emergency to criminalize people living in poverty: nearly 2% of the adult population is in prison