The pillars of Castroism, such as healthcare, education, the fight against poverty, and even security, are crumbling in the face of Trump’s latest blows in a society that has lost hope. Only the repressive apparatus seems to remain intact
EL PAÍS speaks with academics, diplomats, and politicians from different parties to examine the challenge now facing Sheinbaum — one that every Mexican president has confronted in a history shaped by geography, ideology, and geopolitical interests
The transfer to Spain’s Banco Santander of one of Mexico’s most powerful art collections, filled with works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, is the latest chapter in a long story full of intrigue and controversy
No other regional issue, not even the US military attack on Venezuela, has prompted such a firm reaction from Mexico, which has a long tradition of aligning itself with the island
The Caribbean island is dealing with its worst crisis yet, exacerbated by Trump’s latest sanctions on oil supplies
By targeting the island’s access to crucial imports, the US has exacerbated its economic and social strain. The Castro regime says it is trying to provoke a ‘genocide’
The attack against two lawmakers and the mass kidnapping of miners are further proof that violence continues unabated in the Mexican state
The latest batch of prisoners includes organized crime heavyweights and a handful of names that transcend the six organizations included on the State Department’s blacklist
The possibility of the US overthrowing the communist regime seems more plausible than ever, even more than during the Cold War. In Havana, a mixture of emotions hangs in the air, sometimes contradictory, but always permeated by the extreme precariousness of the present and anxiety about the future
Sheinbaum insists on ‘collaboration’ and ‘shared responsibility.’ Trump’s main justification for attacking Caracas is the fight against drug trafficking. It’s the same argument he has used to pressure Mexico on various fronts
The eviction of 20 families, the closure of a soup kitchen, and the recent opening of upscale cafes illustrate the facets of a phenomenon that continues to grow in a trending neighborhood that was once stately and later a refuge for beatniks
Faced with a fiery debate between the glorious myth of the Conquest and anachronistic revisionism, historians are looking to steer clear of nationalist tradition, both Mexican and Spanish
The Mexican president will meet briefly with the Republican and Canada’s Mark Carney ahead of the World Cup draw
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