A day after hosting Joe Biden’s homeland security advisor, the Mexican president again ratcheted up tensions by accusing Washington of meddling in his country’s affairs
Anne Milgram said the criminal organization was operating in more than 40 countries, and had become more ‘ruthless’ since it was taken over by the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán
The judicial crackdown against relatives, old partners and informants has been decisive in detaining top members of the Sinaloa Cartel. The evidence collected will be key to putting the capo’s heirs on trial
José Wilfredo Ayala, second-in-command of the notorious MS-13 criminal organization and one the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, faces multiple charges in New York
The conservative political establishment in the United States has capitalized on a massive public health crisis, betting on the demonization of Mexico as a strategy to win the 2024 presidential and legislative elections
Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard traveled to DC to mobilize consuls against the Republican strategy of blaming southern neighbor for America’s fentanyl crisis
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
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
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
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