Angeles Torrejón focused her lens on women who left everything to go to war
The Mexican photographer has a new exhibition documenting the marginalized, rural people of her country
The drought that is scorching Mexico, a predictable and devastating tragedy
A lack of rain, the transformation of the earth and bad water management have condemned the country to repeat the agony of extremely dry seasons every decade, with their resulting social and economic consequences
Crossing the Rio Grande
EL PAÍS journalists witness the daily crossings of hundreds of Central Americans into Texas along the river, as the Biden administration struggles to cope with thousands of unaccompanied children coaxed into travelling by people smugglers
The Tamaulipas massacre: how the American Dream dies in Mexico
Lorena Arroyo / Pablo Ferri / Hector Guerrero|Comitancillo (Guatemala) / Camargo (Tamaulipas, Mexico)|
They invested and risked everything in search of a better life, traveling to the United States without documents that would allow them to work. But they were found shot dead, and their bodies charred in the north of Mexico, a territory where migrants are preyed on by cartels and a corrupt system takes advantage of them. That’s how the hopes of a group of 15 Guatemalans turned into a nightmare. EL PAÍS has reconstructed their story
Trump’s other walls
The most efficient barrier built by the 45th president of the United States is not made of cement or steel. Instead, what’s managed to stop both legal and illegal immigration is an intricate web of executive actions, administrative orders and agreements with other countries obtained through threats. The real and virtual hurdles built over the last four years have affected the lives of thousands
The lost border in the jungle
The dictionary definition of the Spanish word “selva” is not just limited to “jungle,” but also encompasses confusion, conundrum. Those terms also define the Guatemalan department of Petén. The territory shares more than half of its border with Mexico, and practically the entire border with Belize. The jungle occupies the majority of this territory. Since 1998, the US Drug Enforcement Administration has considered it to be a key corridor for drug smuggling. Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán came through here, and massacred members of the Los Zetas syndicate. If you ask who is in charge now in that 2.2-million-hectare jungle, you’ll get timid responses. But a journey through this immense area allows you to understand how, for years, the main suspects have been “nobodies” in this place