Mexico

As Easter Week kicked off, murders in Cancún and Acapulco forced the government to deploy troops to the country’s major tourist centers

The assistant secretary of state for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs emphasizes that, in the face of the opioid crisis, the US will need to address drug trafficking as a matter of public health

The U.S. Department of Justice has built a case against a group of traffickers who transported drugs in small boats along the Pacific, making stops in Mexico and Central America

EL PAÍS reconstructs the events leading up to the fiery deaths of 39 men detained at a Ciudad Juárez immigration center

Eager to gain favor with the United States, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made life hard for migrants seeking to cross Mexico to reach the U.S. border

The strictest sanction the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora can apply has only been imposed on six other countries: Somalia, Djibouti, Liberia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Afghanistan and Libya

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants inside the facility in Ciudad Juárez, near the U.S. border, after learning they would be deported

Comedian Xavier López Rodríguez, who spent nearly 50 years in Mexican front rooms every Sunday morning on his popular show, has passed away aged 88

Interest in hosting the 2036 Olympics had earlier been expressed by officials in countries including Egypt, England, India, Indonesia, Qatar and South Korea

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt contains scattered patches of seaweed on the open sea, rather than one continuous blob of sargassum

The process to nominate a presidential candidate for his Morena party will begin later this year

Technology companies in the region will find it harder to get financial services and raise capital after the demise of the niche bank

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has struggled in recent days with the issue of fentanyl, which has become a major security concern for the US government

More than $5 billion flowed into Mexico as foreign direct investment in 2022 in the film and video industry alone

Federal regulators approved Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern. Their coupling will create the only railroad linking Canada, Mexico and the United States

Mexico is a year away from electing its next president, and polls show Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum nearly 20 points ahead of her closest rival in their party

Video of the scene at the Paso Del Norte bridge on Sunday showed hundreds of migrants arrive at the border. Many of them appeared to be asylum seekers

A letter attributed to the Scorpions faction of the Gulf cartel condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were responsible

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that his country does not produce or consume fentanyl, despite enormous evidence to the contrary

The Scorpions faction of the Gulf cartel condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were responsible

The motive for the attack on a group of four friends in Matamoros remains shrouded in mystery, as does the identity of the perpetrators and how investigators located them

More than 112,000 Mexicans remain missing nationwide, in many cases years or decades after they disappeared

Doctors Without Borders has identified sexual violence as one of the most heinous problems in Mexico and Central America

Covid-era restrictions have allowed US immigration officials to quickly turn around most migrants, but the White House is preparing to put an end to those measures

The other two US citizens missing since Friday have been found alive. Mexico’s Secretary of Security, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, confirmed that one person has been arrested

About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say the level of immigration and asylum-seekers should be lowered