Elías Camhaji

One week after targeting the network run by Los Chapitos, the Treasury Department has added an ally of La Nueva Familia Michoacana to its blacklist

In an exclusive for EL PAÍS, the FBI details how it recovered a nearly 500-year-old document, which will return to Mexico this month after its disappearance three decades ago

The story of Mexican drug trafficker Eleazar Medina Rojas is one of murder, fake identities, legal scandals and a nearly two-decade struggle to bring him to justice

Just 10 days into the campaign, the presidential contenders are ripping into each other despite pleas for unity and threats of disqualification

Mexican drug traffickers, suppliers in China and consumers in the US are the principal actors in the fentanyl supply chain. According to several studies, Bitcoin is the most common form of payment for illicit transactions, which have skyrocketed in recent years

Beijing condemns the inclusion of 17 Chinese companies and individuals in the Treasury Department’s ‘blacklist’ through the US Embassy in Mexico, one day after López Obrador called for a ‘truce’

The former secretary of Public Security profited from lucrative, sole source contracts for location tracking and phone tapping equipment

The Mexican President announces that he will send another letter to the Government of Xi Jinping and will ask him to prevent the shipment of substances to the country, following the arrival of a container at the port of Lazaro Cardenas

A lawyer for the Guzmán family shared a statement with Mexican television in which the heirs of ‘El Chapo’ claim they are ‘victims of persecution’ because of their notorious father

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 drug trafficker, who has sentenced to 12 years in prison, contacted a Mexican songwriter to write a song about his double life

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

American authorities are tightening the net around the clans of aging drug lords like Joaquín Guzmán, Rubén Oseguera and Rafael Caro Quintero

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

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