Mexico

A team of scientists subjected volunteers to a brain scan and perceptual analysis while they listened to the sound of the rare instrument

The battle between Los Chapitos and the faction loyal to ‘El Mayo’ Zambada is staining the cartel’s old sanctuary with blood. Corpses pile up in the streets and social life has been reduced to a minimum. EL PAÍS traveled through Culiacán and its surroundings, where burned-out houses and businesses, as well as shootings and roadblocks, are part of the daily landscape

The academic has recently published ‘The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration’, a book which gives clues about a system to detain immigrants which is already in place at a time when Trump’s mass expulsions loom large

At the height of the pandemic, Karina García and her husband Lalo Rodríguez hosted dinners in a tiny fifth-floor walk-up. Four years later, they opened a restaurant that rose to best-of-city lists in just four months

The music promoter, linked to artists such as Gerardo Ortiz and Julión Álvarez, was gunned down in one of the most luxurious areas of Mexico City. The US had pursued him for years for alleged links to drug trafficking

Authorities signal that the war in the drug cartel’s stronghold is at the top of their list of priorities, in a double attempt to appease Trump and silence internal criticism of their strategy against organized crime

The Supreme Court has sided with the Jesuit Refugee Service and the Alaíde Foppa Legal Clinic in a landmark decision, mandating reforms to Mexico’s immigration law to curb arbitrary arrests and prevent torture

The announced levies of up to 25% on imported goods accelerates early imports and increases the volume of shipments from the Asian country

Since the Republican magnate’s victory in the United States, between 800 and 1,200 migrants have been crossing the river from Guatemala every day, while stalked by organized crime. This is more than double the figure recorded on previous dates

The president-elect has not specified how he will convince other countries to take back their citizens, but there is a law he can use to deny visas to uncooperative nations

The calculations, which do not include the effect of potential retaliation, reinforce the theory that inflation could go up with the Republican’s plan to slap Washington’s North American partners with a 25% levy

The imposition of a universal tariff on all products coming into the US would turn the world’s leading power into a real-time economic policy laboratory

The art amassed by Jacques and Natasha Gelman, including some of the most important paintings of the 20th century, fell off the radar until an auction at Sotheby’s yielded clues almost 20 years later

The Sheinbaum administration’s relations with the Asian giant, particularly in the auto industry, is straining Mexico’s ties with its North American partners ahead of the 2026 USMCA review

While rights groups join forces against the promise of mass deportations, migrants at the border are waiting for a CBP One appointment with growing anxiety as Trump’s inauguration gets closer

The Bonques Brothers, key operators of the cartel in the state of Nayarit, will lose access to bank accounts in the international financial system. The move is part of Washington’s fight against fentanyl trafficking from Mexico

Arrivals are slowly increasing with an uptick in immigrant caravans, but current immigration policy means that their hopes of being able to legally enter the country are slim

The president proposes investing $24 billion a year to support six million farmers. ‘The proposal is to stop sowing wars, and instead sow peace and sow life,’ she told the gathering of world leaders

The G20 summit that opens on Monday in Rio de Janeiro is the first test of the new climate generated by the radical change of course expected to take place under the Republican president-elect

The Mexican National College presents new findings on the 15th-century climate crisis that led to the sacrifice of 42 children in the hope of bringing rain

The fake psychiatrist diagnosed two young women suffering from anxiety as schizophrenic and with ‘narcissistic personality disorder.’ She pressured them to take antipsychotics that she prescribed with false ID cards

The official was responsible for the “zero tolerance” policy, which separated children from their families during the republican president’s first term in office

In his new book, the Mexican journalist recounts the 2021 meeting he had with the old boss of the Sinaloa Cartel. This is only the drug lord’s second interview with a journalist that has been made public. EL PAÍS published an exclusive preview

The lawyer, who used fake IDs and fabricated degrees to prescribe psychiatric drugs, posed as the ‘best specialist in mental disorders in the United States and the Netherlands’

Immigration is not part of Joe Frank Martinez’s job. But in Del Rio, Texas, like in other majority Latino communities across the country, the issue is high on voters’ minds and is disrupting long-standing political allegiances

Thousands of families in Latin America are forced to leave their homes due to poverty, violence and the effects of climate change, heading towards the United States. Of the more than 828,000 migrants who have crossed the country irregularly so far this year, 97,000 are kids and adolescents