Guanajuato

The Treasury Department notes that the boss of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel manages the group’s operations from prison and even forged an alliance with the Gulf Cartel while behind bars

With her three children murdered and her partner disappeared, Eva Vàzquez is just one of many living through a dire situation that has seen almost 15,000 people vanish without trace in the first year of Sheinbaum’s government 

The government boasts of a 60% drop in murders in the state, even though Guanajuato continues to lead Mexico in the number of homicides registered. Behind the figures that indicate success, there are still massacres, the discovery of mass clandestine graves, and executions

El Mencho ordered trailers to be set alight and highways blocked in Michoacán, Jalisco, and Guanajuato. Two police officers were killed, but no arrests were made: ‘We’ve never seen blockades of this scale’

Hundreds of people are searching among the objects found at a ranch used by the CJNG cartel for any clues about their missing loved ones. Collectives of mothers are organizing across Mexico to travel to the site

Guanajuato, the state with the highest homicide rate, saw two explosions in Acámbaro and Jerécuaro — a tactic that’s been used before in the spiral of violent crime affecting the region

A reconstruction of the last hours of the woman who wanted to be the next mayor of Celaya reveals an improvised tour in a community plagued by violence

The politician was attacked at a campaign event in Celaya right after she presented her strategy to tackle violence in a municipality that is in the grips of a security crisis

Since 2022, officers and criminals have been fighting an all-out battle in one of Guanajuato’s most important cities. In the last year, 22 agents have been killed. EL PAÍS accompanies a team on their patrol

The authorities claim that 195 bullets were fired from seven different weapons. They are now targeting ‘a group of people that operates’ on the borders between the Mexican states of Guanajuato and Michoacán

An armed group opened fire on a group of friends and the music band during a holiday celebration on a private estate in Salvatierra, in the state of Guanajuato, the scene of bloody turf battles between drug cartels

AMLO tied the high levels of violence in Guanajuato to the increase in drug use seen in the state in central Mexico and said it required special attention

There’s nothing better than José Alfredo’s ‘rancheras’ to understand Mexico and the Mexicans. On the 50th anniversary of his death, a festival in his hometown celebrates his legacy

Activist Catalina Vargas disappeared one month after the execution of Teresa Magueyal. The UN has warned of the spiral of violence directed towards the searchers in the state

Hugo Delgado Granados, researcher and specialist in volcanology at UNAM, clears up the main concerns about the supposed formation of a volcano south of the capital

The activist’s death exposes the failure of overwhelmed authorities and the danger posed to families searching for the over 110,000 missing persons across the country