Carmen Morán Breña

The award-winning Cuban journalist and author believes that the end of the dictatorship on the island “is already happening.” In a conversation with EL PAÍS, he laments the fact that leftist governments condemn the Nicaraguan and Venezuelan regimes, but don’t speak out against the dictatorship in his own country

The chef-owner of the Rosetta restaurant – located in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City – walked EL PAÍS through her day-to-day, from buying vegetables to leading her kitchen staff

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

Comedian Xavier López Rodríguez, who spent nearly 50 years in Mexican front rooms every Sunday morning on his popular show, has passed away aged 88

Powerful inmates manage their violent criminal enterprises while living in comfortable cells

A new law in Spain opens a path to citizenship for descendants of people who fled the Civil War and dictatorship. Thousands are now eligible to apply. These are three of their stories, from Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela

After Peru expelled Mexican Ambassador Pablo Monroy for interfering in domestic affairs, López Obrador accused the Andean country of being “undemocratic.” Meanwhile, the family of Pedro Castillo – the jailed former Peruvian president – has been granted asylum in Mexico

Heavily armed men claim control over Milpa Alta, a rural area on the capital’s southern fringe

Businessman Jesús Hernández Alcocer shot the singer Yrma Lydya at a Japanese restaurant in Mexico City. An accomplice made off with the murder weapon, which prosecutors have located

EL PAÍS reconstructs the murder of an adviser to the Chamber of Deputies in Papatlazolco, in the mountains of Puebla. Seven suspects have been arrested

Daniel Picazo was killed by an angry mob which wrongly identified the 31-year-old as a child abductor

Ismael Bojórquez, editor of the weekly newspaper ‘Ríodoce’ in Sinaloa, says that the narco and corruption have infiltrated all of society in Mexico

The US State Department has issued advisories classifying different areas according to risk. Only two states are considered safe enough to visit with ‘normal precautions’

The victims were attending a funeral wake in Michoacán; prosecutors say they found evidence of a massacre but no bodies

A long and widespread custom has been exacerbated by the arrival of new wealth from migration. In some rural areas, 200,000 pesos – $9,500 – will buy a child bride

Investigators are digging at the home of the 72-year-old suspect from Atizapán de Zaragoza after he confessed to having murdered around 30 women

In the indigenous community of José Joaquín de Herrera, youngsters shoot guns in the air in an effort to push the government into action and show their force against criminal groups

Previous incidents had threatened the Apostle Santiago Church in Michoacán state, but with the place of worship burned to the ground, finger-pointing has begun

Galvanized by the ‘Salgado Macedonio’ sexual assault case, the movement is taking center stage in national politics with unprecedented force ahead of a key state election

In the wake of controversial arrest of man who helped his wife end her life, three citizen initiatives convey popular support for a legal change to decriminalize the practice

Dozens of boys want to be matadors nowadays and are pouring into specialized academies to learn how to survive in the arena

Psychiatrists compile book of moving messages by mental institution patients from 1852 to 1952

Women’s group Pandora’s Box calls for an end to impunity in sexual harassment cases

A group called Pandora’s Box is gearing up to name and shame perpetrators of sexual harassment in Spain

A private collector from Toledo puts a painting some believe to be by the Greek-born artist on public display