Carmen Morán Breña

Presidential contenders will have Army protection for the 2024 campaign after over 100 people running for office in 2021 were killed

Experts from several countries are calling on governments to share the information that they have in their possession regarding non-human intelligence and technology, for the progress of science and knowledge

Two very different candidates, Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez, will compete in 2024 for the highest office in the nation

Discovered in a botanical garden, the ‘Viridantha minuscula’ is an example of the country’s enormous variety of species

The drug lords have the power to bring thousands of people to the streets and force the State to negotiate their demands. Experts are already talking about the risk of a full-blown “narco-state”

The number of disputes over laws and decrees between the executive branch and the judiciary has skyrocketed during AMLO’s six-year term, straining the institutional balance in Mexico

The contenders tout the virtues of President López Obrador, well aware of the influence he wields in the succession process

Death threats, an attack on her bodyguard and an attempted break-in at her home forced Montserrat Caballero to take temporary refuge in the housing quarters of the 28th Infantry Battalion, so that she can sleep in peace. EL PAÍS interviewed the first female mayor of the city and visited her new home

In Mexico, these types of murders by angry crowds are spreading from rural to urban areas and are frequently incited by organized crime

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