Baja California

A gold mine in Mexico’s Sonoran desert was taken over by the sons of drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán. Mexican officials and generals said they would help an American businessman reclaim the mine — but demanded hefty bribes. For one man, reclaiming the mine was more than a business proposition. It was a reckoning with his past and a chance to pay back the orphanage that raised him

US citizen Julie Moreno supported her Mexican husband, Nefatlí Juárez, in self-deporting for fear of being detained by ICE: ‘We were completely cornered’

Port entry records and customs reports accessed by EL PAÍS shed light on the criminal network’s activities

While the US wants to paint the fence black to deter migrants, Alfredo ‘Libre’ Gutiérrez used it to create a mural promoting unity between the two neighboring nations, based on an Indigenous prophecy

Seventy-four percent of illegal weapons enter through the northern border. Mexican authorities are mapping the main routes while Washington is downsizing the ATF

Several valleys, surrounded by desert and ocean, have become a magnet for gastronomy lovers

In just 10 days, the navy, supported by other institutions, has seized thousands of kilos of drugs and millions of liters of gasoline from criminal organizations

In the border city of Mexicali, hundreds of addicts defy the government’s rhetoric that drug use does not exist in Mexico. They are not included in the official statistics and far from a political priority. Many pass through Verter, the first supervised drug consumption center on the continent

Almost 70% of the 1.2 million migrants in the country are US citizens. After the pandemic, the number of residence visas being issued skyrocketed, while the amount of undocumented Americans being sent back decreased 

Washington has displayed its power on the border with surveillance and reconnaissance missions

In 2022, this small town in Baja California, was proclaimed the world capital of alien sightings and several streets and avenues were inaugurated with names of renowned ufologists. One thing’s for sure, at night here the sky is a glittering gallery of stars

Violence between warring factions has had a direct impact on people’s lives. Many have lost their jobs, children are not going to school, and car theft and kidnappings have increased

One of the best-known culinary leaders in Mexico City tells EL PAÍS about his beginnings and the highs and lows of the 11-restaurant group he now runs

The families of the victims have identified the bodies, which had gunshot wounds. The Baja California Prosecutor’s Office believes that the assailants wanted to steal their vehicle, but ended up killing them

The state prosecutor’s office arrested three people linked to the disappearance of two Australians and an American in Punta San José, near Ensenada, on April 27

The drug, which was already used as an opioid adulterant in the US and Canada and which significantly increases the risk of overdose, has now appeared in Mexico

Centuries ago copper mines attracted foreign investors and today, almost in the middle of the Baja California peninsula, stands a town that seems frozen in time

Businesses in Cabo San Lucas nailed up sheets of plywood over their windows, and government personnel hung up banners warning people not to try to cross gullies and stream beds after Norma regained strength

It’s never easy to attribute a single event to climate change, especially so quickly and with El Nino being a prominent factor

Meteorologists say Hurricane Hilary held a maximum sustained wind speed of 85 mph at 2 a.m. Sunday as the storm was located 30 miles from Punta Eugenia, Mexico, and 385 miles from San Diego

Hilary is expected to plow into the Mexican peninsula on Saturday night and then surge northward and enter the history books as the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years

Forecasters warned the storm could cause extreme flooding, mudslides and even tornadoes across the region

No tropical storm has made landfall in Southern California since Sept. 25, 1939, according to the National Weather Service

24 states have had areas designated as such for the first time, bringing the country’s total number of unique destinations of cultural interest to 177

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

A group of scientists is studying whether the loss of fur detected in this species, which live in Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, is due to the increase in sea temperature