A gold mine in Mexico’s Sonoran desert was taken over by the sons of drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán. Mexican officials and generals said they would help an American businessman reclaim the mine — but demanded hefty bribes. For one man, reclaiming the mine was more than a business proposition. It was a reckoning with his past and a chance to pay back the orphanage that raised him
Jalisco is the state with the highest number of missing officers, with 84 cases over six years. Forty-two have been found murdered
Accused of trafficking for cartels and laundering millions of dollars, Brother Wang fled Mexico City for Havana
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 testimonies of 38 people forcibly recruited in January by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel depict the deceptions and threats employed by the criminal organization
The Environmental Investigation Agency report that the criminal organization has earned more than $8 billion since 2019 through smuggling in Mexico bound for South America
EL PAÍS reconstructs, on the ground and using exclusive documents, the presence of former military personnel hired by the cartels, a lethal alliance of organized crime
Seventy-four percent of illegal weapons enter through the northern border. Mexican authorities are mapping the main routes while Washington is downsizing the ATF
The arrest of nine former military personnel in Michoacán sheds light on a growing phenomenon in the region, which is experiencing high rates of violence
The Trump administration includes among its criminal targets foreign officials who have received bribes from drug trafficking and organized crime money-laundering networks
Judge hands 80-year prison sentence to Marco Ramírez Chávez, a CJNG leader in Irapuato, based on local songs used by prosecution
Criminals meet their victims on digital platforms, trick them into meeting, and then extort their families for a ransom
The agency’s annual report indicates that El Mencho’s organization has expanded throughout Mexico, and that factions of the Sinaloa Cartel are using veterinary drugs to stretch fentanyl supplies
Congress is moving forward with a proposal to tax money sent abroad. Analysts estimate the decision could cost Mexico at least $3.25 billion annually
The municipality, adjacent to Mexico City and surrounded by concrete, suffers from the heat island effect. The community came to the rescue with this accelerated tree planting method
The band’s leader, Jorge Hernández, addresses his musical genre’s controversial association with crime. He also shares his perspective on Mexican immigrants in the United States
The former agent, a witness in the Menchito trial, was murdered exactly 10 years after surviving the downing of a helicopter in a failed operation to capture ‘El Mencho’
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’
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is reacting to increasing pressure from the Mexican government, which has targeted high-ranking bosses and important logistics operators
In less than a week, at least 17 clandestine cemeteries with dozens of human remains have been uncovered in Sinaloa, Baja California Sur and Colima
For over 10 years, the Olascoagas have controlled the lives and economies of dozens of municipalities in Guerrero and the State of Mexico. The US now accuses them of being large-scale drug traffickers
A police commander was shot dead Tuesday after months of murders of officers, activists, and civilians at the hands of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
A study by the Colegio de México reveals that the CJNG is the most active in using social media to recruit adolescents
Among the denounced candidates are former regional prosecutor Francisco Herrera Franco, linked to the murder of two journalists in Michoacán, and Silvia Delgado, part of the legal defense for the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel
The Teuchitlán case sheds light on a phenomenon that had remained out of the spotlight: the recruitment of young people by cartels through fake job offers or directly through social media
A concert in Guadalajara that paid tribute to the leader of the Jalisco New Generation forces us to confront the social complacency that these criminal organizations enjoy in the country
The internal war that has weakened the Sinaloa Cartel has only strengthened its main rivals, but the pressure from the United States to capture its leader, along with the discovery of the Teuchitlán ranch, has refocused attention on the brutal organization
