Claudia Sheinbaum

The designation of six Mexican criminal groups as terrorist organizations, which takes effect on February 20, raises questions about their size, activities, and territorial reach

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

The battle between cartel factions has been going on for five months, with hundreds dead and missing. Los Chapitos have suffered more from the onslaught of the authorities, who have focused their actions on the capital, Culiacán

The White House is outlining, pending a formal announcement, the first designations: La Familia Michoacana, Cárteles Unidos, Cartel del Noroeste and the Gulf Cartel are on the list, according to ‘The New York Times’

With over two decades in the anti-drug agency, he undertook missions in Colombia and Afghanistan and was regional chief for Mexico, Canada, and Central America. His appointment threatens to further strain relations with the Mexican government

Mexico’s Defense Department has acknowledged authorizing two Pentagon reconnaissance missions since Trump took office but has left open the question of whether the aircraft were involved in espionage activities

Under pressure from Trump, the Sheinbaum administration is demanding that the United States combat the firepower of the cartels. Using judicial documents and official reports, EL PAÍS reconstructs the long chain of arms trafficking, which begins in the weapons industry and ends in the streets of Mexico

The imposition of a 25% tax endangers the USMCA and harms Brazil, the main economic power in Latin America

The Colombian tells of the mistreatment to which US authorities subject migrants expelled after the Republican assumed the presidency

The Mexican president pushed back against a Justice Department document that suggests possible intervention by US agencies and security forces

The discovery of dozens of illegal burials in Chihuahua, San Luis Potosí and elsewhere this year by activists and local authorities is not being reflected in official figures, underscoring the administration’s lack of transparency since mid-2023

Business leaders, citizens and even the opposition close ranks with Claudia Sheinbaum’s efforts to ward off the threats of tariffs from the US president

The US president has already obtained concessions from Mexico, Canada, Colombia and Panama with his threats. The European Union appears to be next

Mexican government agrees to deploy 10,000 National Guard to the border to fight drug trafficking and irregular immigration

The threat of tariffs by Donald Trump is the latest in a long list of confrontations, from the dramatic debt crisis of the 1980s to clashes over the Iraq war and previous trade battles

The US dollar is approaching parity with the euro and reaching a record high against the Canadian dollar and a three-year high against the Mexican peso. Exporting companies are feeling the pressure already

Sheinbaum’s first three months have seen more murders and missing persons than the same period of her predecessor, López Obrador, but they have also been marked by an increase in operations, arrests, and seizures of drugs and weapons

Washington increases pressure on its neighbors with a decree that tightens the noose on organized crime but poses risks to Mexican sovereignty and compromises other areas of the bilateral relationship

The president signed the executive order imposing tariffs of 25% on its neighbors and 10% on the Asian giant, marking the beginning of a trade war

The market predicts that a 25% tariff on imports, as the White House is considering, would place Mexico on the brink of a recession.

The US will also impose a 10% levy on goods from China over fentanyl trafficking

Mexico estimates the impact on American consumers of a 25% tariff on Mexican imports at more than $10 billion

EL PAÍS is following the routes, planes and companies behind the repatriation of hundreds of immigrants to the Felipe Ángeles International Airport

The president claims that the two countries have not stopped drugs and migrants crossing their borders into the US, and is irked by the significant trade deficit with both

Lawmakers urge exploration of new avenues for bilateral cooperation to address the migration crisis, prevent arms trafficking, and strengthen workers’ rights on both sides of the border

Claudia Sheinbaum has stayed out of the conflict between the U.S. president and Gustavo Petro and appeals to López Obrador’s learning to avoid a direct clash; Lula resorts to a diplomatic path, but makes his anger at the conditions of deportation flights clear