The US historian and essayist, who has just published a book of essays titled ‘Desire and Fate,’ reviews his life as an intellectual globetrotter and his reasons for becoming an ‘anti-utopian’
Raúl Rocha, the president of the beauty pageant, has in one week gone from being accused of rigging the prize in favor of the Mexican winner to being pursued for leading a criminal network with links within the Mexican Attorney General’s Office
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Cabinet adviser Stephen Miller join the escalating pressure against the Sheinbaum government: ‘This is a promise the president made to the American people’
The ‘war on drugs’ was declared in the state, where cartels have been entrenched in politics and the economy for decades
Accused of trafficking the drug for Mexican cartels and laundering millions of dollars, he had fled to Cuba after escaping from Mexico City last summer while on house arrest
At a roundtable on his homeland security task forces, the US president again floated the possibility of land incursions against drugs in Latin America
Mexico is intensifying efforts to take custody of Zhi Dong Zhang, a priority target of the United States who remains detained in Cuba after being expelled from Russia
Ten people at the Attorney General’s Office have been dismissed for replacing drugs that were to be incinerated with a harmless substitute — among them, the agency’s comptroller
EL PAÍS reconstructs, on the ground and using exclusive documents, the presence of former military personnel hired by the cartels, a lethal alliance of organized crime
The fate of the historic Mexican drug lord was marked by the brutal murder in 1985 of DEA agent Kiki Camarena. It was the extradition most sought by the US and pressure from Donald Trump has materialized it
The most international Mexican artist on the contemporary scene turned the Jumex Museum in the capital — all three floors and its basement — into a living machine, at the service of the largest retrospective in his almost 40-year-long career
The threat of tariffs by Donald Trump is the latest in a long list of confrontations, from the dramatic debt crisis of the 1980s to clashes over the Iraq war and previous trade battles
The veteran capo arrested in Texas spent more than 30 years in the upper echelons of the Sinaloa criminal empire without ever setting foot in jail thanks to a low, almost ghostly profile
It’s the big threat. A cheap, white powder — 50 times more powerful than heroin — which kills more than 70,000 people each year in the United States and countless others across the rest of the Western Hemisphere. EL PAÍS, in a long-term investigation that spanned two continents and included interviews with anti-drug czars in the U.S. and China, visited the clandestine laboratories in Sinaloa, where fentanyl is manufactured. In the vicinity of these Mexican labs, addicts serve as guinea pigs for drug traffickers. This newspaper has gathered testimonies about how this lethal substance crosses the border to the north and spreads like a plague through the streets of the most powerful country in the world. The trafficking of fentanyl is part of a global network with one foot in China, which the White House has declared war on
At the largest border crossing in the country, the memory of the recent deaths of 40 migrants — who were killed during a fire in a detention center — is more painful than the new security measures being implemented by the U.S. government
In Ciudad Juárez, hundreds of migrants, especially Venezuelans, are waiting to cross and surrender to the border police, encouraged by many others who have already done it. Their fate: a legal limbo awaiting deportation trials
Mexican drug traffickers account for seven of the top 10 names on U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s list of priority fugitives
The Salvadoran president has appointed two U.S. crypto investors to lead the country’s National Bitcoin Office, as the IMF issues more warnings about the country’s so-called volcano bonds
Two former inmates talk to EL PAÍS about the terrors they saw while imprisoned in the country’s jails, which are at breaking point due to Bukele’s controversial crackdown on gangs
The Salvadoran president’s fierce war on gangs has quelled rampant violence and gained him unprecedented popularity while exacting a heavy toll on rights and freedoms
The prison transfer came the same day El Salvador’s congress voted to approve yet another extension of emergency rules that allow police to round up suspected members of street gangs
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes is the leader of the brutal Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Despite being the most wanted criminal in North America, with millions of dollars in rewards hanging over his head, both the Mexican and US governments have failed to track him down
The family of the small child says he has just two weeks left to live if he does not receive life-saving surgery
San Miguel Totolapan, in the state of Guerrero, is routinely rocked by violence due to its location at the heart of a drug production and transit hub
Mike Vigil, ex-head of International Operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, spoke to EL PAÍS about the capture of one of the world’s most notorious drug lords
Seven people were arrested for the shooting on Playa del Carmen’s busy pedestrian walkway
Dangerous journeys by road are becoming increasingly common due to heightened controls on both sides of the US-Mexico border