Three journalists from Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala provide a first-person account of what it’s like to continue reporting on reality despite the authoritarian onslaught in the region and the criminalization of their work
For two years, a war between criminal groups has terrorized Frontera Comalapa and its farming communities. Residents and NGOs have denounced an upsurge in violence
One of the 12 police officers accused of murdering 17 migrants and two smugglers in 2021 in northern Mexico changed his story a few months after the incident. In his testimony, to which EL PAÍS has had access, he acknowledges the massacre and says that more agents were involved
The little girl from Panama had heart problems and was being held with her family in Harlingen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, one of the busiest corridors for migrant crossings
The National Institute of Migration has closed its emergency office in Tapachula and stopped issuing transit permits as the U.S. warns illegal entry will be met with deportation
EL PAÍS accompanies three Venezuelan migrants as they cross mountains, banana plantations and private properties to get to Tapachula, the epicenter of migration in Mexico’s far south
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.
Authorities in the state of Mexico arrested eight people in an operation that also uncovered infrastructure for the illegal extraction of gasoline, hydrocarbons and water
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants inside the facility in Ciudad Juárez, near the U.S. border, after learning they would be deported