Jalisco

The natural disaster that devastated Acapulco strengthened from a tropical storm to a fearsome category 5 hurricane in just 12 hours

The Museum of Environmental Science — affiliated with the University of Guadalajara — will open its doors in November, after seven years of work that has cost $100 million

Congressman Dan Crenshaw has used the disappearance of the five young men to insist that the drug cartels be named ‘enemies of Mexico and the United States’

The disappearance of the young men from the city of Lagos de Moreno highlights the resurgence of violence in a besieged country

The broadcast of brutal images of the kidnapping of the five young men has kept Mexico on edge and shows the slow progress of investigations into cases of missing persons

Sentenced to 17 years in prison for child sexual abuse, the disgraced pastor participates in the Lord’s Supper by phone

Víctor Ponce has fallen victim to a horrifying crime, a decade after he and 75 of his relatives were ruthlessly uprooted from Chihuahua by a notorious crime gang

The drug lords have the power to bring thousands of people to the streets and force the State to negotiate their demands. Experts are already talking about the risk of a full-blown “narco-state”

Each year, this group of Indigenous people – who are scattered across central-western Mexico – go on a pilgrimage to the desert of San Luis Potosí, to ask the gods for water. EL PAÍS accompanies them on this increasingly urgent ritual, in the face of a drought that threatens their culture and their lives

A recent case involving the murder of seven call center workers in the Mexican state of Jalisco has shed light on one of the new tentacles of the cartel. Shell companies – which are controlled by the mafia – issue fake documents to tourists and demand that they pay taxes on properties that don’t exist

Forensic evidence appears to confirm the remains found in the Barranca de Huentitán belong to the young people who worked at a company allegedly acting as a front for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel

José Melesio, César Salazar and Leo Reyes – all residents of the United States – returned to their native country for a few days. They were subsequently abducted and executed. With no suspects in custody, their families are demanding justice

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes is the leader of the brutal Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Despite being the most wanted criminal in North America, with millions of dollars in rewards hanging over his head, both the Mexican and US governments have failed to track him down

The kidnapping of José Isidro Grimaldo Muñoz occurred while he was on vacation in the Mexican state, which is the home base of the criminal organization