In two months, 16 people have gone missing around Huatulco, Zipolite and Puerto Escondido, emblematic beaches of the Mexican Pacific. Nine bodies were found inside a car, but officials are giving no explanations
Days after the kidnapping of a group of people from Tlaxcala, a car with nine bodies was found on a highway in Puebla. Now no authority wants to take responsibility
After months of rapprochement, El Salvador’s president is offering his prisons and hoping for financial support in his budding friendship with the Republican administration
The flurry of measures signed by the U.S. president has left both migrants and business owners on edge, sparking fears of a rise in organized crime and a looming economic recession
EL PAÍS shares the stories of some of the thousands of migrants left stranded in Mexico after the Trump administration shut down the CBP One application
Thousands of people are in limbo as the CBP One asylum application is shut down on the first day of the Donald Trump administration
This Venezuelan teacher obtained a date to request asylum in the US after a year of waiting in Mexico. Her children are already on American soil, but she worries the president-elect could cancel the program
The Argentine anthropologist, who has dedicated 30 years to the study of violence, weaves the connections between the sexual crimes of Ciudad Juárez and the massacres in Gaza, in what she calls the end of the era of respect for human rights
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