David Marcial Pérez

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

The death toll has risen to 53 after two victims died in hospital. Another 14 people remain in a serious condition after being rescued from the abandoned truck

The massacre perpetrated by the 18-year-old in Uvalde has once again put a spotlight on the lax gun regulations in the southern US state

Using testimony from witnesses and authorities, EL PAÍS retraced the events of the Texas school shooting that ended with 19 students and two teachers dead

Andrés Manuel López Obrador met with his counterpart Alejandro Giammattei on the first stop of a tour of Central America focused on migration challenges

The jazz legend moved to Cuernavaca in 1978 to attempt to treat himself for a terminal illness. After a mysterious operation, he died a few months later

The heart of the Mexican Caribbean has been recording up a string of killings and shootings, while business owners in the region say organized crime groups are in charge

The recent string of killings in the Caribbean has sounded alarm bells in the US, where authorities have issued new travel alerts for “violence and criminal activity”

EL PAÍS has seen declassified files from the DFS agency, which kept tabs on the Nobel laureate starting in the late 1960s, when he was at his most politically active

During the Dirty War, the Mexican police and army executed farmers, teachers, activists and students, and dropped their bodies out of planes. Half a century on, these crimes continue to go unpunished

Héctor Luis “El Güero” Palma Salazar, a longtime associate of infamous crime boss El Chapo, may soon walk free. He has several unsettled scores that are already troubling the authorities

The prestigious quarterly has selected 25 writers for its second list of the best authors under the age of 35, who are breaking geographical and linguistic paradigms

Afflicted by drug violence, this mining town in the central state of Zacatecas leads national polls for citizens’ lack of confidence in the safety of their surroundings

The player, known as ‘The Black Panther’ in Spain, was rumored to have died in a fight or from an overdose. EL PAÍS meets the trailblazer in a home in Texas, after his unexpected reappearance

The state of Michoacán is the world’s top producer of the fruit but the commercial boom for the superfood has brought with it violence, deforestation and job insecurity

Wheat consumption is growing in Mexico, with thousands of bakeries offering artisan bread

Suicide comes on same day that Homeland Security releases tough new measures against immigration