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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

Documents seen by EL PAÍS, a military report and the testimony of a survivor shed light on the shooting deaths of five unarmed young men in the Mexican border city in late February

The border state, where four U.S. citizens were kidnapped in early March, has the highest number of military shootings of civilians and disappeared persons in relation to the overall population

The motive for the attack on a group of four friends in Matamoros remains shrouded in mystery, as does the identity of the perpetrators and how investigators located them

Mexican authorities are working on the assumption that the kidnap of four US citizens in Matamoros, two of whom were found dead, was a case of mistaken identity by drug cartels

The other two US citizens missing since Friday have been found alive. Mexico’s Secretary of Security, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, confirmed that one person has been arrested

In photos and videos posted on social media, a group of armed men can be seen taking the hostages after a shootout, among them a woman, the only one who seems conscious

A wave of protests paralyzed the Caribbean country in late 2022, causing water shortages and outbreaks of infectious diseases

Violence, criminal gangs and a failed government have plunged the Caribbean nation into chaos

In a letter delivered to Mexico’s ambassador to the United States via his attorney, the imprisoned drug lord protests his living conditions. He is asking President López Obrador to intercede

The son of drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán was raised in affluence and joined the family business when he was only 18

Ovidio Guzmán was detained by the Mexican Army in an isolated place, during low traffic hours. Despite all precautions taken, the confrontation left 29 people dead, including 10 soldiers