According to an audit obtained by EL PAÍS, the lawyer siphoned off funds from the Enrique Peña Nieto administration and transferred millions to dozens of high-profile public figures
The veteran politician resigns from the office two years before the end of his term, leaving Claudia Sheinbaum free to complete her security cabinet
A cooperating witness details the links with ‘El Tanque’ and ‘Primito,’ two cartel bosses sanctioned by the Treasury Department, and their business dealings with the tycoon accused of smuggling oil stolen from Pemex into the US
A hitman linked to the CJNG shot dead the mayor of Uruapan, who had arrested the group’s leader in August
The Spanish government has acknowledged the injustices committed during the Conquest, a first step toward resolving the dispute between the two countries over differing interpretations of that historical event
The government is close to capturing the tax lawyer, whom it accuses of leading a gigantic structure of shell companies serving corrupt politicians, businessmen, and drug traffickers
Ten people at the Attorney General’s Office have been dismissed for replacing drugs that were to be incinerated with a harmless substitute — among them, the agency’s comptroller
A security operation discovered a site in Michoacán where a group of men from the megachurch were being trained in military tactics
Washington accuses tycoon James Jensen and his family of disguising multimillion-dollar shipments of fuel stolen from Pemex with the help of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
The only country to elect all its judges at the ballot box embarks on trial and error of a model unparalleled anywhere else in the world
Washington claims the veteran drug lord and other cartel leaders earned $10 million a year from cocaine trafficking alone, while El Mayo held assets worth $15 billion
The US president throws one of Mexico’s greatest enemies into the ring at a time when both nations are negotiating a comprehensive security agreement
The transfer follows the same pattern as last February, when Mexico handed over 29 drug lords, including Rafael Caro Quintero, the ‘Narco of Narcos’
Trump’s policies have destroyed the traditional map of migration. Arrests of people in transit on their way to the northern border have dropped to historic lows. Now families are returning to their countries of origin or adapting to life in Mexico
The Trump administration includes among its criminal targets foreign officials who have received bribes from drug trafficking and organized crime money-laundering networks
The murder of Ximena Guzmán and José Muñoz is a direct challenge to Morena, the ruling party, in its largest political stronghold
The reform proposed by Claudia Sheinbaum establishes significant financial penalties for radio and television companies
A study, to which EL PAÍS has had access, identifies alterations at the Jalisco site where relatives of missing persons have reported discovering huge quantities of bones
Mexican and U.S. authorities are struggling to explain the legal basis that allowed them to overcome the court logjam that for years prevented the drug lords from being handed over
In the last four years, authorities have seized 5.4 tons of fentanyl, almost 50% in territory controlled by the sons of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, from where it is trafficked to the US through Tucson and San Diego
The transfer of the prisoners takes place in the midst of negotiations with the Trump administration to avoid tariffs on Mexican exports
The immigration policy of the Democrat’s two administrations was the harshest in the last 15 years, while the Republican’s administration, in its first term, returned the fewest number of Mexican citizens
Claudia Sheinbaum’s government faces the challenge of toughening its fight against drugs and showing results to prevent a potential US military incursion into Mexico
The possibility that the United States could assume powers that violate the sovereignty of its southern neighbor forebodes a period of extraordinary tension in the bilateral relationship
Washington is pushing for the delivery of brothers Miguel Ángel and Omar Treviño Morales and accuses the Mexican judiciary of delaying the process
The former head of the Mexico City government has become Mexico’s first female president, it remains to be seen how far away she veers from her predecessor and political mentor
Morena’s presidential candidate schedules an intense campaign tour of Nuevo León, Coahuila and Durango, states traditionally resistant to the political left