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The authorities said the detained capo was ‘one of the main generators of violence’ in the Mexican capital and suggested La Unión Tepito has imploded after the capture of several leaders

Political parties and social organizations are in talks to form an interim body to stop the criminal gangs, but some experts are concerned that it will favor the very people who caused the security crisis

Since 2022, officers and criminals have been fighting an all-out battle in one of Guanajuato’s most important cities. In the last year, 22 agents have been killed. EL PAÍS accompanies a team on their patrol

Pressure is mounting as many Haitians demand the departure of the government of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who recently announced elections for August 2025

Former police officer Jimmy Chérizier, leader of a fluid federation of criminal groups in the capital, Port-au-Prince, has challenged the government amid the prevailing chaos

The truces between criminal organizations in the state of Guerrero appear linked to the Catholic hierarchy, which is willing to mediate in order to stop the wave of violence

The clergy has been attempting to settle differences between La Familia Michoacana and rivals Los Tlacos after a successful truce between the latter and Los Ardillos over transport routes

Prosecutors in Chiapas maintain all is well, but residents have reported 20 murders by rival criminal gangs

President López Obrador acknowledges that the 32 captive migrants were released and not rescued. This is not the first time the criminal group has freed kidnap victims after pressure from authorities

Consuelo Loera López has died in a Cualiacán hospital, according to local media reports. She was 94 years old

Investigative journalist Carmen Aristegui also appeared in court to testify about being targeted by the powerful spyware

Criminal gang battles ravage the capital and central regions while a United Nations mission led by Kenya gears up

The list of burials illuminates one of the favorite tactics of criminals in these times of war against drug trafficking and organized crime: ‘disappearing’ people

The text, to which EL PAÍS has had access, suggests several locations near Iguala as the possible destination of the disappeared student-teachers. The report also includes screenshots of chats that had been dismissed as unverifiable

On the ninth anniversary of the attack, the families are determined to gain access to dozens of Army documents which, they claim, contain information about the boys’ fate. President Andres Manuel López Obrador claims that those papers do not exist

The Prosecutor’s Office has asked for a total of 969 years in prison for 11 police officers involved in the migrant massacre. For the repentant officer – who has been key to building the case – prosecutors are asking that he receive a reduced sentence of 19 years

More cocaine moves through Ecuador than any other country in the world, meaning cartels like Sinaloa and the CJNG need local criminal organizations to handle transport and logistics

The Mexican government has done little to stem the violence around the state, while local business owners demand greater collaboration with the US

Forensic experts who studied the bodies of civilians who allegedly died at the hands of soldiers concur with the lieutenant’s claim of a shootout with gang members, despite questions raised by video footage of the incident

EL PAÍS has seen statements from security forces about the chaotic scene that left five people dead and implicated a colonel

Footage shows soldiers disarming the men, sheltering from something, then altering the scene by placing weapons next to the bodies. The victims had just crashed their truck into a wall following a street chase that had residents hiding in their homes in the violence-ridden northern city of Nuevo Laredo

The polls are predicting that President López Obrador’s party will win the gubernatorial election in the state of Mexico, which is made up of the areas that surround the capital. If the Institutional Revolutionary Party were to be be defeated after its 94-year-long hold over the governorship, this would be a major victory for the young political movement

For two years, a war between criminal groups has terrorized Frontera Comalapa and its farming communities. Residents and NGOs have denounced an upsurge in violence

One of the 12 police officers accused of murdering 17 migrants and two smugglers in 2021 in northern Mexico changed his story a few months after the incident. In his testimony, to which EL PAÍS has had access, he acknowledges the massacre and says that more agents were involved

In videos shared on social media, an armed group can be seen firing at vehicles, as spectators flee in terror

The blaze at a Mexican government immigration facility left 38 people dead and 28 more seriously injured, the worst such tragedy in living memory