One year after the mine collapse in Coahuila, Mexico: The interminable wait to locate the bodies of the 10 miners buried 197 feet underground
Authorities assure the victims’ families that the corpses will be recovered within the next few months
Ciudad Juárez fire survivor: ‘I took off my thermal blanket, raised my hand, and they said ‘there is a living one among the dead’
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
Legal director of Nuevo León Congress shot dead
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
Mayor of Mexico City borough flirts with the hard right in Washington, DC trip
Sandra Cuevas, the local leader of Cuauhtémoc, attended a human trafficking summit hosted by the Conservative Political Action Conference
In jail with Pablo López Alavez, 13 years behind bars in Mexico for a crime he did not commit
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’
Mexico offers a new plant to the world
Discovered in a botanical garden, the ‘Viridantha minuscula’ is an example of the country’s enormous variety of species
The armor of the European arms industry
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Weapons made on the Old Continent are finding their way into the hands of the cartels, but victims of the violence have little leeway to demand accountability
Congressman Dan Crenshaw: ‘We have to fight the cartels as if they’re terrorists. They have more money than ISIS or Al-Qaeda’
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
The Pachucos: Mexico’s last zoot-suit dandies
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
Survivors of Mexico’s worst migrant detention center fire stuck in limbo, unable to support families
The Mexican immigration agency is covering the cost of the medical care and hotel stay for survivors of the fire that killed 40 migrants
Araceli Vázquez, the Mexican serial killer who never was
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She is still in prison after 19 years despite evidence of her innocence and the conviction of the real murderer, who has become a celebrity
Court battle over Trump-era border wall funding is over, as last state ends lawsuit
Wisconsin became the last of 20 states to drop out of the two lawsuits, which were rendered all but moot when President Joe Biden issued an executive order in 2021 that halted wall construction
Life sentence for Gerardo González Valencia, the narco who hid cocaine inside dead sharks
The drug lord was the leader of Los Cuinis, an ally of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Mexico
Tim Shaddock, the Australian castaway: ‘I was a man in a suit and tie and realized I needed to change my life’
The sailor, rescued by a Mexican tuna boat, talks to EL PAÍS about his life, the time he spent adrift in the Pacific and his dog Bella
Texas is using disaster declarations to install buoys and razor wire on the US-Mexico border
The Justice Department has warned Gov. Greg Abbott that the barrier is unlawful and the Biden administration will sue if the state doesn’t remove it
Barbie mania sweeps Latin America, but sometimes takes on a macabre tone
In Peru, anti-government demonstrators dressed up two women in pink and put them in giant Barbie boxes to protest police clashes with demonstrators
A superb goal by Messi in the 94th minute of his Major League Soccer debut gives Inter Miami the win
The Argentine star came off the bench at the start of the second half against Mexico City’s Cruz Azul, leading his team to a 2-1 victory in the Leagues Cup match
Justice Department tells Texas that floating barrier on Rio Grande raises humanitarian concerns
President Joe Biden’s administration told Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that the barrier installed this month near the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, was “unlawful”
Crime is merciless against searching mothers in Guanajuato, Mexico
Activist Catalina Vargas disappeared one month after the execution of Teresa Magueyal. The UN has warned of the spiral of violence directed towards the searchers in the state
The US is actively working to dismantle Mexican cartel financial empires
One week after targeting the network run by Los Chapitos, the Treasury Department has added an ally of La Nueva Familia Michoacana to its blacklist
Sweeping sexual violence under the rug
Jineth Bedoya Lima|
What’s happened — and continues to happen — in Haiti, Colombia and Mexico should awaken our collective conscience about the use of women’s and girls’ bodies as a weapon of war
The vaquita, a new open front between Mexico and the US
Biden said that he will not impose trade sanctions on Mexico despite the slow progress in conservation efforts, although he has left the door open to action within the framework of the USMCA free trade agreement
Rescued Australian man who was adrift 3 months in Pacific with dog ‘grateful’ to be alive
54-year-old Timothy Lyndsay Shaddock and his dog, Bella, disembarked Tuesday in the Mexican port city of Manzanillo from the fishing boat that rescued them
Salma Luévano, the first transgender member of Congress in Mexico: ‘I receive death threats on a daily basis’
As the ‘mother of the rainbow quotas,’ the politician talks about the challenges she has faced since she took up her seat in the Chamber of Deputies
Cargo theft in Mexico: a crime that’s costing lives and hundreds of millions of dollars
Crimes against truckers are on the rise, costing the country up to $300 million each year. A member of Congress has proposed an initiative that would create a specialized prosecutor’s office for this offense
In Mexico, organized crime flexes social muscle among the poorest ahead of elections
The drug lords have the power to bring thousands of people to the streets and force the State to negotiate their demands. Experts are already talking about the risk of a full-blown “narco-state”
This was the first carnivorous dinosaur with superior intelligence discovered in Mexico
The fossil corresponds to an agile hunter with highly developed senses; its finding adds another piece to the puzzle that seeks to reconstruct the world before the extinction of the dinosaurs
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