México

At least 91,000 immediate family members were detained last month, the highest figure since May 2019

In just a month, the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector in July became the busiest along the U.S. border with Mexico for the first time since 2008

Historical capos — such as Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada and Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes — have been relegated, as the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration establishes new priorities

In 2021, the Mexican president promised that he would design a Global Fraternity and Welfare Fund and propose it to the UN. This project would attract donations from the world’s wealthiest individuals, companies and countries to assist 750 million people living in poverty

The two talked about deepening U.S.-Costa Rica trade tries, creating new jobs and advancing democracy in addition to promoting a more orderly immigration process

A total of 38,115 fans came to a game, breaking the record of 32,616 set at the gold-medal game of the 1994 world championship in Toronto when the U.S. rolled past Russia for the title

Karla Quintana did not elaborate on the motives, saying only that she is leaving her post “in light of current circumstances”

The security challenges facing the country do not eclipse the friendly nature of its inhabitants and the ease of forging new relationships

The Spanish singer was at home with his two 12-year-olds when a group of 10 armed thieves entered the property

The U.S. Trade Representatives Office, or USTR, objected to Mexico’s ban on GM corn for human consumption and plans to eventually ban it as animal feed

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

Every week, repatriation flights bring hundreds back to the Central American country, some of whom haven’t lived there in years

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

The 24-year-old had been missing for two weeks. German police say that “no third party blame can be assumed” for the death, but the circumstances have not yet been clarified

After being banned in some places, the Mexican capital’s government seeks to have the phenomenon of pop-up street DJs declared an intangible cultural heritage

The Mexican microbiologist speaks exclusively to EL PAÍS for the first time since his release from prison in the US. Cabrera Fuentes affirms that he isn’t the ‘monster’ that the media has made him out to be. He also says that he’s ready to resume his career and possibly get into politics

Restructuring Pemex debt might send yields on other Mexican bonds soaring, but according to some experts, this is a scenario markets should consider

Authorities assure the victims’ families that the corpses will be recovered within the next few months

The victims of the blaze at the National Institute of Migration, which left 40 dead, speak for the first time about what happened on the night of March 27

Ricardo Flores Suárez – from Mexico’s National Action Party (PAN) – was executed on Monday night by an armed man. The killer opened fire at a sports center and also injured two people

Sandra Cuevas, the local leader of Cuauhtémoc, attended a human trafficking summit hosted by the Conservative Political Action Conference

EL PAÍS visited the Indigenous Zapotec leader inside his prison cell. According to the UN, he was convicted and jailed for a fabricated murder: ‘The real reason for the arrest and prosecution of López Alavez is his activity as a defender of the human rights of his community’

Discovered in a botanical garden, the ‘Viridantha minuscula’ is an example of the country’s enormous variety of species

The conservative Republican lawmaker — who supports ‘declaring war on the cartels’ — assures EL PAÍS that he is willing to meet with the president of Mexico and move past the verbal dispute that the two men have been engaged in for several months

Born of the US-Mexico borderland gangsterism of the 1930s, the counterculture has a style that signifies rebellion. Abandoning violence, in Mexico, the movement’s last guardians are keeping the tradition alive through aesthetic ritual and dance-floor flair