Micaela Varela

The leaders of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia have responded in very different ways to the return of the far right to the South American country, which held a runoff vote on Sunday

The businessman, whose interests include the import and export of hydrocarbons, is wanted by the Attorney General’s Office for a fuel and arms trafficking scheme originating in Guatemala, where he served as honorary consul

President Sheinbaum is walking a tightrope between firmness and patience to dodge the US leader’s recurring proposal to send troops to subdue the drug cartels

The Mexican president announces that a protocol for working in international waters has been agreed upon with a view to stopping the attacks

Accused of trafficking for cartels and laundering millions of dollars, Brother Wang fled Mexico City for Havana

The State Department accuses ‘El Ruso’ of drug and arms trafficking as well as bribing government officials, police, and military personnel in Sinaloa with over $1 million per month

The blast caused 100-foot-high bursts of flames on the eastern edge of the nation’s capital. Around 20 of the injured are in critical condition with severe burns

Most of the passengers of the double-decker vehicle struck by a train in Atlacolmulco, which left 10 dead and 45 injured, were domestic workers or bricklayers working in Mexico City

Despite Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s recent words of reassurance to relatives, new lines of investigation and a new prosecutor, there is no fresh information to clarify what happened on September 26, 2014

The US Secretary of State will meet with Mexican president Sheinbaum at a delicate time for the bilateral relation

The US agency claims to be working with its Mexican partners, but Claudia Sheinbaum says that there’s no agreement that includes the DEA in the initiative

The son of Mexico’s boxing legend finds himself behind bars in Los Angeles — the latest twist in a life marked by scandal, recovery, and inner turmoil

With nearly 20 family members in the United States, the walls are closing in on Mexico’s leading drug trafficking dynasty

A veteran officer from the anti-drug agency told the U.S. Senate how the Mexican organization conducted surveillance during the trial of Rubén Oseguera González, son of El Mencho, in Washington DC

The Treasury Department has frozen the assets of a business conglomerate accused of cleaning up the finances of El Chapo’s fugitive children

Criminals meet their victims on digital platforms, trick them into meeting, and then extort their families for a ransom

The chemist Miguel Cortés died in solitary confinement in his prison cell without a sentence, ahead of a series of trials for murder. Authorities talk about a fall, an intoxication and cardiac arrest. The families of the victims blame the Prosecutor’s Office for inaction and irregularities in his death

A 14-year-old boy, the only survivor of the attack, has been flown to a Texas hospital and is fighting for his life after being shot in the head. His father and two other relatives are dead

Fear that cocaine and ecstasy will be laced with lethal doses of opiates or other dangerous substances has unleashed a wave of hysteria among drug users

The attacker – who operated in the borough of Tlalpan – has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting two of his victims. Trials are still pending in five other cases

The Ostok Sanctuary, a shelter in the Mexican state of Sinaloa for animals rescued from species trafficking, hopes to welcome 10 descendants of the infamous drug lord’s exotic pets. The goal of the relocation is to prevent them from being slaughtered in Colombia, where they reproduce uncontrollably and cause accidents

Sixty years ago, the actress visited Mexico to relax, expedite divorce proceedings and buy furniture for her house, all while under FBI surveillance for hobnobbing with communists

The discovery of thousands of pre-Columbian artefacts of unknown value has hindered the construction of Mexico’s flagship tourism project amid indigenous communities’ concerns over looting

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