The Supreme Court has sided with the Jesuit Refugee Service and the Alaíde Foppa Legal Clinic in a landmark decision, mandating reforms to Mexico’s immigration law to curb arbitrary arrests and prevent torture
The fake psychiatrist diagnosed two young women suffering from anxiety as schizophrenic and with ‘narcissistic personality disorder.’ She pressured them to take antipsychotics that she prescribed with false ID cards
The lawyer, who used fake IDs and fabricated degrees to prescribe psychiatric drugs, posed as the ‘best specialist in mental disorders in the United States and the Netherlands’
The president-elect will take office on October 1 to deal with issues from security and the economy to justice
Foreign Secretary Alicia Bárcena says her plan, which has reduced irregular crossings into the US by 66%, will continue during Sheinbaum’s six-year term
The 39-year-old suffered cardiac arrest during his honeymoon and was admitted to intensive care at a private medical center in Cancún
The families of the victims have identified the bodies, which had gunshot wounds. The Baja California Prosecutor’s Office believes that the assailants wanted to steal their vehicle, but ended up killing them
The attack by a group of 10 individuals took place in the intensive care unit, where the patient had been admitted with gunshot wounds a day earlier
In one month at least 42 people have gone missing in the northeastern state. Seven remain unaccounted for. The latest episode, the disappearance of 12 construction workers, demonstrates the power of organized crime
EL PAÍS travels along the border of the poorest state in Mexico, a region dominated by criminal groups. From the city of Tapachula to the Lacandon Jungle, passing through the towns of Frontera Comalapa and Chisomuselo, this story illustrates the fight between cartels, the abandonment of the state, the murders, forced displacements, kidnappings and extortions, along with the efforts made by the local and migrant populations to survive
The politician was attacked at a campaign event in Celaya right after she presented her strategy to tackle violence in a municipality that is in the grips of a security crisis
The state’s attorney general has only recognized three deaths, including a four-year-old child, after an attack by an armed group. A witness told 1800Migrante that up to 50 people were traveling in three vehicles that were attacked
The president of El Salvador began his political career as a small-town mayor, realizing his destiny for power.
The National Human Rights Commission has filed a detailed complaint with penal authorities and the Morelos State Prosecutor’s Office for violating the right to health, physical integrity, life and justice of 13 women found dead in a federal maximum security prison near Mexico City
The devices of the Colmena project, run by UNAM and the Mexican Space Agency, are aboard the ‘Peregrine 1′ spacecraft, which suffered a critical fuel leak that is jeopardizing the mission
Two weeks after its opening, construction continues on the tourist port of entry, which is projected to receive 700,000 travelers in 2024
An armed group opened fire on a group of friends and the music band during a holiday celebration on a private estate in Salvatierra, in the state of Guanajuato, the scene of bloody turf battles between drug cartels
EL PAÍS climbs aboard with President López Obrador for the inauguration of his pet project, with a route from Campeche to Cancún that still lacks connections, garages and workmanship
A battle between a group of farmers and the cartel, which left 14 dead, has led to fear of reprisals in the agricultural community where hundreds of National Guard troops have been deployed
Climate change with its extreme drought, hurricanes and floods figures in the work of Agustina Bazterrica, María Ferencuhová and Elisa Díaz Castelo, as in that of Margaret Atwood and Gabriela Jáuregui
Described as a great analyst forged in the academic system, the historian and economist — who is taking the reins of the National Autonomous University of Mexico — is also a big fan of his country’s classic films
Safety becomes the biggest worry for the population of the Mexican city. Citizens are receiving food and water in dribs and drabs, while the Army tries to take control after the hurricane
Tourists are fleeing the devastated city, which has been cut off since early Wednesday by the cyclone after it made landfall on the coast of Guerrero
Ten months ago, President Xiomara Castro decreed a state of emergency, inspired by neighboring El Salvador’s security policy. Since then, murders have decreased… but the control of gangs and drug-trafficking groups persists. Reports of torture are also growing in Honduran prisons, which are now administered by the military
Grupo México agreed to restore some freight services following a government offer to deploy more security officers, but the dangers of the journey to the border with the United States were left unaddressed
EL PAÍS accompanies Doctors Without Borders on a pilot project in Honduras that has released the ‘Aedes aegypti’ variety with Wolbachia bacteria to combat the disease at a time of record cases in America
When Roe v. Wade was repealed in the United States, decades of progress in the struggle for reproductive rights were threatened. But across the Western Hemisphere, the tide has recently been in favor of the right to choose, with the decriminalization of abortion in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico