Modest businesses owned by Hispanic families are one of the methods that Mexican traffickers use to move the fortunes they obtain from drug sales in the US
The remains of Indigenous Maya people killed in 1982 have been recovered from a storage facility in Chimaltenango to receive the dignified burial long denied them by the Guatemalan state
Argentine experts will join identification efforts by using stable isotopes found in bodies and remains to understand which country or region they came from
In 2022, traffickers from the Lacandona area in southern Mexico negotiated an extraordinary deal with the Army: the return of 100 kilos of cocaine in exchange for 33 soldiers they had kidnapped. EL PAÍS reconstructs the episode — a window, in reality, onto a 50-year conflict in one of North America’s natural jewels
A series of recent seizures is further evidence of the pressure the US is exerting on the Mexican government and in Central America
More than 65,000 people have been punished financially for not leaving the U.S., a measure that experts and immigration lawyers call unconstitutional and cruel
The company paid bribes to judges, police, and even former president Alejandro Giammattei to continue operating. Q’eqchi’ Indigenous people warn of protests over the reactivation of the El Estor mine
Laura arrived in the United States without papers in 1986 and now lives with the constant fear of ICE in Los Angeles
Amnesty International considers Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán, who prevented the derailment of the election result in 2023, to be prisoners of conscience
A growing number of deportees are arriving in Guatemala after signing voluntary departure agreements in the United States, lured by the promise of a cash payment in exchange for giving up their right to defend their immigration cases in court
A German foundation is taking the pulse of the region, which has become the main stage for the power struggle between the two superpowers
Internal intelligence documents reveal that 36% of those captured during the state of emergency were not profiled as criminals before the measure was implemented
The arrest of a Guatemalan evangelical church leader in the Bensonhurst neighborhood highlights the constant but discreet harassment of this migrant community in recent months
A project guards the story of cruel losses and eventual victories of the LGBTQ+ community in the Central American nation
The Trump administration’s persecution is generating a massive return flow to Latin America driven by the fear of mass raids
Over 50 migrants were transferred from Louisiana to the prison in December, believing they were being returned to Cuba. After several weeks stranded there, they were returned to the US and then deported to Havana
The Guatemalan journalist, under house arrest after more than 800 days in prison, denounces persecution by the Attorney General’s Office and maintains that the structures that control the justice system remain intact despite Bernardo Arévalo’s rise to power
Every day, people who have died in the US arrive at La Aurora Airport in a final migratory journey surrounded by scams, injustices, bureaucracy, and the unwavering will of their families
The Brazilian jurist begins his term as president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights focusing on three key areas: climate action, bringing the court closer to citizens, and expediting measures
In an interview with EL PAÍS, the president of the Central American country reflects on the challenges he faces ahead of a vote he hopes will reshape the judicial ecosystem
The Central American country is under a state of emergency after a massacre of police officers that calls into question the state’s ability to deal with the violence of an army of 30,000 gang members
Los Choneros, the reigning criminal organization in Manabí, Ecuador, is linked to shark hunting and finning, complimentary activities to its primary trade of drug and fuel trafficking
The specialist in Mesoamerican history warns against revisionism: ‘The course of the conquest could have been different without Indigenous support’
The authorities have deployed the army to patrol the streets, but the response has had little impact on the gangs or a judicial system riddled with corruption
A book that compiles the recovery of ancestral recipes from the Americas, from Canada to the Amazon, maps strategies in the face of climate change and agribusiness
For the past 20 years, she has been legal guardian to 2,373 children, whose parents have been deported or are at risk of detention. She currently has 700 minors under her care
Indebted and traumatized by the abuse of human smugglers and mistreatment by US authorities, migrants who returned without hope have managed to start a new life in their country of origin
