The U.S. needs to shift gears and offer open and unequivocal support to independent electoral and judicial institutions in Mexico that act as a check on executive power
The contenders tout the virtues of President López Obrador, well aware of the influence he wields in the succession process
Death threats, an attack on her bodyguard and an attempted break-in at her home forced Montserrat Caballero to take temporary refuge in the housing quarters of the 28th Infantry Battalion, so that she can sleep in peace. EL PAÍS interviewed the first female mayor of the city and visited her new home
Morena’s victory in the State of Mexico deals a life-threatening blow to the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which had governed the state without interruption for nearly a century
The allegations of lawfare, proscription or overthrow attempts such as the one suffered by Lula in January are clouding regional politics
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
In a statement signed by 1,000 leading figures, including Noam Chomsky and Diego Luna, the EZLN say that they are coming under attack from paramilitary groups, who act with the ‘passive and active complicity’ of the authorities
The race could mark a high-water point for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party, which has imitated — and largely replaced — the old PRI across Mexico
The president of Victims of Illicit Drugs, Jaime Puerta, recalls the loss of his only child after the latter contacted a dealer on Snapchat
The end of Donald Trump’s Covid measure, which allowed the immediate expulsion of people, has not solved the problems in the area or between the governments of Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador
With the end of Title 42, we explain how the program was used to deny entry to asylum seekers and migrants, and what will happen after it expires
The city of Tapachula has become a bottleneck where those seeking to travel north are stuck for months as they wait for a temporary permit that will allow them to continue their journey to the U.S.
The presidents of the United States and Mexico discussed in a telephone call the actions of both governments in light of the end of the measure, which has provoked a tide of migrants seeking to enter U.S. territory
The former secretary of Public Security profited from lucrative, sole source contracts for location tracking and phone tapping equipment
As a part of the memory recovery process, a group of trans women is denouncing the rapes the ‘white brigades’ and police officers committed between 1965 and 1990. ‘We lived through a horrible panic’
The Mexican President announces that he will send another letter to the Government of Xi Jinping and will ask him to prevent the shipment of substances to the country, following the arrival of a container at the port of Lazaro Cardenas
A day after hosting Joe Biden’s homeland security advisor, the Mexican president again ratcheted up tensions by accusing Washington of meddling in his country’s affairs
Organized crime syndicates use vulnerable people in border cities to calculate the dosages of the opioid that they traffic to the United States
The cartel went from its first makeshift fentanyl lab to a network of labs concentrated in the northern state of Sinaloa in less than a decade
Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard is testing whether his work on the world stage will translate into votes as he competes for the leftist ruling party nomination for next year’s presidential elections
Federal prosecutors say Francisco Garduño was remiss in not preventing the disaster despite earlier indications of problems at his agency’s migrant centers
Three Mexican immigration officials, a guard and a Venezuelan migrant are being held for investigation in connection with the fire
The conservative political establishment in the United States has capitalized on a massive public health crisis, betting on the demonization of Mexico as a strategy to win the 2024 presidential and legislative elections
Violence and organized crime are on the rise across the region, upending government plans and putting citizens on alert
In Colombia, restrictions on President Gustavo Petro have come from both Congress and the high courts. In the rest of the region, similar dynamics are happening
Eager to gain favor with the United States, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made life hard for migrants seeking to cross Mexico to reach the U.S. border
The Mexican authorities must get to the bottom of what took place at the border facility and determine who is responsible for the tragedy at whatever cost