Mexico

Experts say that the Mexican capital’s high position in The Economist’s ranking is due to gentrification in the city center, the strength of the peso against the dollar and inflation

Negotiators are deciding whether to preserve the president’s authority to allow in certain immigrants at certain times

U.S. President is convening the lawmakers at the start of an election year when border security and the wars abroad are punctuating the race for the White House

The Texas National Guard denied the Border Patrol access to attempt a rescue in the Rio Grande last Friday, where a mother and her two children had drowned earlier the same night

Javier Gutiérrez’s initial hearing has been postponed five times, delaying the process in Mexico, while in the United States the case moves forward

The roughly $78 billion in tax cuts would be paid for by more quickly ending a tax break Congress approved during the Covid-19 pandemic

It’s the big threat. A cheap, white powder — 50 times more powerful than heroin — which kills more than 70,000 people each year in the United States and countless others across the rest of the Western Hemisphere. EL PAÍS, in a long-term investigation that spanned two continents and included interviews with anti-drug czars in the U.S. and China, visited the clandestine laboratories in Sinaloa, where fentanyl is manufactured. In the vicinity of these Mexican labs, addicts serve as guinea pigs for drug traffickers. This newspaper has gathered testimonies about how this lethal substance crosses the border to the north and spreads like a plague through the streets of the most powerful country in the world. The trafficking of fentanyl is part of a global network with one foot in China, which the White House has declared war on

The countryside is losing millions of hectares of crops due to land being abandoned. Violence and extortion add to the ravages of climate change and the lack of subsidies

Prosecutors in Chiapas maintain all is well, but residents have reported 20 murders by rival criminal gangs

The last candidate to join the presidential race has arrived with the advantage of being a little-known face. But he has room to become an uncomfortable rival

The National Human Rights Commission has filed a detailed complaint with penal authorities and the Morelos State Prosecutor’s Office for violating the right to health, physical integrity, life and justice of 13 women found dead in a federal maximum security prison near Mexico City

Going after an official for a policy dispute, in this instance over the claim that Mayorkas is not upholding immigration laws, is unprecedented

Behind every migrant who sends money to their family abroad lies a story of uprooting and hardship, but also of solidarity and hope

The Mexican pop phenomenon has sued producer Sergio Andrade for rape in a civil lawsuit as new victims come forward

Mexico’s immigration agency sent at least 22 flights from its border region with the U.S. to southern cities during the last 10 days of December, according to Witness at the Border

In some coastal towns in Oaxaca, private recycling initiatives have sprung up. But production of the material continues unabated

Democratic President Joe Biden has backed such programs as a way to lower prices, signing an executive order in 2021 that directed the FDA to work with states on imports

President López Obrador acknowledges that the 32 captive migrants were released and not rescued. This is not the first time the criminal group has freed kidnap victims after pressure from authorities

The ‘nearshoring’ narrative, strength of the exchange rate and economic expansion have convinced international markets, which support a historic bond issuance: the $7.5 billion placed this week exceed the total debt issued during the entire 12 months of recent years

A shelter with headquarters in the Mexican capital and on the border with Guatemala offers a temporary home for those fleeing homophobia

The collection of this ‘tax’ unleashes violence that leaves hundreds of people dead each year, and it robs the public coffers of a fortune

The diplomatic delegations agreed on the need to keep the border open for trade

The death toll at the world’s most dangerous land crossing threatens to surpass the 560 victims documented last year

A top-level delegation, led by Antony Blinken, will meet with the Mexican president on Wednesday to discuss ‘enforcement actions’ to stem the flow of arrivals

It was another sign of the outsized role that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has given to Mexico’s armed forces

Climate change has taken a toll on the diversity of the Gulf of California that dazzled French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Several initiatives in the area seek to regenerate its ecosystems