Beatriz Guillén

After passing through San José El Hueyate and Puerto Madero, on the Chiapas coast near the Guatemala border, 83 migrants have gone missing. EL PAÍS has identified three mass disappearances between September and December 2024 with the same modus operandi: sea voyages headed north that never reach their destination. Among the victims are women and children, as well as many young men. In a territory marked by battles between organized crime groups, all signs point to human trafficking

The veteran politician resigns from the office two years before the end of his term, leaving Claudia Sheinbaum free to complete her security cabinet

With her three children murdered and her partner disappeared, Eva Vàzquez is just one of many living through a dire situation that has seen almost 15,000 people vanish without trace in the first year of Sheinbaum’s government 

Since the Treasury targeted Sumilab in May 2023, its owners have received over three million pesos in government allocations

The Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned eight individuals and 12 companies it accuses of being linked to Los Chapitos

The government boasts of a 60% drop in murders in the state, even though Guanajuato continues to lead Mexico in the number of homicides registered. Behind the figures that indicate success, there are still massacres, the discovery of mass clandestine graves, and executions

The Mexican president has released her first federal budget. She has also strengthened her security strategy, with the issue of judicial reform now resolved

The State Secretary normalized the deadly US strike on a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean while hailing the ‘historic cooperation’ with the Sheinbaum administration

Sexual offenses are woven into the history of Ciudad Juárez, where authorities don’t have the necessary resources to fight the trafficking of minors

Hernán Bermúdez, the former head of Security and Citizen Protection in the state of Tabasco, has been showing up in Mexican Army documents since 2019. He has been identified as a key player in organized crime in his home state

Foreign Service employees are receiving the same salary as in 1998, getting by on subsidies, and coping with grueling workdays to deal with the surge in requests for help stemming from Trump’s deportation drive

El Chapo’s son accepts responsibility on four counts of drug trafficking and organized crime and pledges ‘substantial assistance’ in exchange for prosecutors requesting a lighter sentence

EL PAÍS reconstructs the last movements of a group of 40 migrants from Cuba, Honduras and Ecuador who disappeared on December 21, 2024, in San José El Hueyate, on the coast of Chiapas. Six months later, no authorities have begun to search for them.

Doctors of the four-year-old, who requires intravenous nutrition, warn she could die within days if sent to another country

Ronald Johnson, a CIA veteran and former Green Beret, is bringing a tough new style that favors military action against the cartels

Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s youngest son, imprisoned in Chicago since 2023, will provide information and plead guilty in exchange for improving his legal situation

The Oaxaca Prosecutor’s Office has focused its investigation on a ‘settling of scores.’ The lack of evidence, the involvement of the Huatulco police, and the impunity with which organized crime operates in the region underlie the case

The Jalisco Attorney General’s Office updates the catalog of clothing found at the Izaguirre Ranch, used as a base of operations by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel

Hundreds of people are searching among the objects found at a ranch used by the CJNG cartel for any clues about their missing loved ones. Collectives of mothers are organizing across Mexico to travel to the site

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