It’s the big threat. A cheap, white powder — 50 times more powerful than heroin — which kills more than 70,000 people each year in the United States and countless others across the rest of the Western Hemisphere. EL PAÍS, in a long-term investigation that spanned two continents and included interviews with anti-drug czars in the U.S. and China, visited the clandestine laboratories in Sinaloa, where fentanyl is manufactured. In the vicinity of these Mexican labs, addicts serve as guinea pigs for drug traffickers. This newspaper has gathered testimonies about how this lethal substance crosses the border to the north and spreads like a plague through the streets of the most powerful country in the world. The trafficking of fentanyl is part of a global network with one foot in China, which the White House has declared war on
After years of Black expression following the murder of George Floyd, Indigenous creativity has experienced an awakening across the United States, from art exhibitions in Washington, to series such as ‘Reservation Dogs’
Attempts to stop him in court have ignited the debate over whether preventing the most popular Republican candidate from running for office could end up damaging democracy
It is the second state to decide not to allow the Republican to participate in the presidential primaries because of the attack on the Capitol. Michigan decided Wednesday that he can run
Mexican President López Obrador meets with U.S. Secretary of State Blinken and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas as the situation on the border between the two countries reaches a fever pitch
The writer — a leading figure in American poetry — reviews five decades of verses about intimacy, death, sexuality and family in an interview with EL PAÍS in New York City
The House of Representatives and the Senate close for vacation without reaching an agreement on two connected issues: Republicans refuse to send aid to Kiev without guarantees of a tougher crackdown on the migrant crisis
Special counsel Jack Smith hoped that the process would be expedited in order for the former president’s election subversion case to begin in March 2024
A delegation from the Biden administration will visit President López Obrador to define new measures to deal with the massive arrival of people at the frontier
Two centuries after the speech that inaugurated the United States’ policy toward the region, five Democratic lawmakers call for an end to the Cuban embargo and the declassification of secret CIA files, as well as reforms to the IMF and the OAS
The top tribunal must decide whether the 14th Amendment — which bans an ‘insurrectionist’ from running for public office — can be applied to a president
The state ruling recognizing insurrection charges under the 14th Amendment has the potential to halt Trump’s candidacy if validated by the US Supreme Court
The harassing laws that prohibit gender-affirming treatment for youth are pushing many parents to move to places where their children can receive such care
The governors of Florida and California laid out their antagonistic visions for the future of the United States in an unprecedented television face-off
In a major event in American comics, after nearly three decades of silence, the cartoonist returns with ‘The Mysteries,’ a laconic black-and-white fable done in collaboration with cartoonist John Kascht
Judges in Minnesota, Michigan and Colorado have rejected lawsuits that invoked a clause in the Constitution that prohibits an insurrectionist from running for president
The exhumation of the remains of the founder of a Benedictine order has unleashed religious fervor in a country where Catholics are a minority. Forensic experts state that the failure of a corpse to decompose after four years is more common than it seems
Voters have approved a constitutional amendment that protects women’s reproductive rights. It is the seventh vote to do so after ‘Roe vs Wade’ was overturned in 2022
He’s been awaiting execution for almost three decades for crimes that he says he didn’t commit. From a maximum security prison in Ohio, he details his fight to reopen his case and his unusual musical project with Spanish pianist Albert Marquès — a cry of protest against capital punishment in the United States
The investigation has revealed that he chose the restaurant and the bowling alley — where he killed 18 people — because he believed those sites were spreading rumors about him being ‘a pedophile’
