Elías Camhaji

Attempts by the ‘hawks’ to brand drug cartels as terrorist groups and launch military operations on Mexican soil contrast with the intensification of bilateral meetings between the two governments to tackle the fentanyl crisis

The trial of former president Felipe Calderón’s secretary of public security demolishes the myth of the super-policeman who took on the cartels and reveals him to be the partner of the criminals he promised to fight

The New York jury reached a unanimous verdict on the five crimes charged against the former secretary of public security of Mexico during the government of Felipe Calderón

Twelve New York citizens must reach a unanimous verdict on each of the five charges against the former Secretary of Public Safety

Jesús ‘Rey’ Zambada testified to handing over millions of dollars to the former Mexico security chief, who has elected not take the stand during his New York trial

The judicial process against the former head of Mexican public security has seen several high-ranking narcos reveal the horrors and excesses of the war on drugs

Prosecutors call a former Mexican cop and a Sinaloa Cartel frontman to testify about how million-dollar bribes greased the wheels of organized crime

The Mexican government has filed a suit in Florida accusing the former security official of diverting over $750 million in public funds, while a NY court is trying him for allegedly taking bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel

The secretary of public security during the presidency of the rightist leader was arrested in Dallas in 2019, charged with taking millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel

The North American Leaders’ Summit came to a close on Tuesday, with the leaders of Mexico, US and Canada announcing their commitment to turn the region into a competitive trade bloc

The Mexican president told his US counterpart to ‘do away’ with his ‘abandonment of Latin America’ in a bilateral meeting held as part of the North American Leaders’ Summit

The ‘three amigos’ – the leaders of Mexico, Canada and the United States – will meet in Mexico for the first time in more than a decade. This will also be the first visit by an American president to Latin America since 2014

Jorge Rueda Landeros – the principal suspect in a high-profile American homicide case – was detained in Mexico, where he has been working as a yoga instructor for the past 12 years under a different identity. EL PAÍS pieced this shocking story together with the help of testimonies, court documents and an interview with Landeros, who is now in jail

The Border Project, led by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, has managed to identify the bodies of more than 280 people who died during the perilous crossing

Washington has been asked to clarify the whereabouts of Édgar Valdez Villarreal after the convicted drug-trafficker vanished from Federal Bureau of Prisons databases

The Beltrán Leyva Cartel hitman, one of the most bloodthirsty narcos in Mexican history, was serving 49 years in Florida but is no longer registered as being in US custody

White House asked government of López Obrador for a quota of 60 extraditions a year and provided a list of priority targets as part of Bicentennial Framework talks, according to Sedena documents that EL PAÍS has seen

The emotional reunion took place after Juana recognized herself in a missing person’s poster online

Ahead of a bilateral security summit, the cyberattack on the Mexican armed forces has revealed US cooperation against the cartels and the fight on fentanyl

The massive leak of emails from the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense shows how Mexico’s armed forces and the United States have been exchanging information to stop the trafficking of synthetic drugs

Almost 30 members of the sect were arrested and two accused of human trafficking and child abuse after an operation to rescue a three-year-old boy

Carlos Arturo Quintana’s extradition to the United States is linked to journalist Miroslava Breach’s murder, the massacre of the LeBaron family

US authorities are concerned about the huge increase in a candy-colored version of the illegal synthetic opioid coming into the country

It took five years to arrest Ronier Sánchez and six before he was finally extradited to the state of Connecticut, where he is now facing trial

Washington issued a security alert on Wednesday after the Jalisco New Generation Cartel stormed two states, blocking roads and burning vehicles

Arizona has sentenced a stalker from Mexico who blackmailed more than 100 girls and women around the world to 34 years in prison