Mexico

For the first time, an interactive map shows the cross-border trade of plastic waste to Mexico, which skyrocketed when China banned it

The chef-owner of the Rosetta restaurant – located in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City – walked EL PAÍS through her day-to-day, from buying vegetables to leading her kitchen staff

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross for Mexico and Central America warns about the disproportionate use of force against migrants. In a conversation with EL PAÍS, he lays out the measures that the authorities must take to avoid further tragedies

The fires were set Wednesday and Thursday at the sprawling camp of about 2,000 people, most of them from Venezuela, Haiti and Mexico

Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard is testing whether his work on the world stage will translate into votes as he competes for the leftist ruling party nomination for next year’s presidential elections

While the cost of feeding a family has risen everywhere, the UNDP says prices in Latin America and the Caribbean have surged the most

One of the two survivors of a deadly abduction last month in Mexico says she watched the video of the drug cartel shootout that killed two of her close friends from one of her kidnappers’ phones

Federal prosecutors say Francisco Garduño was remiss in not preventing the disaster despite earlier indications of problems at his agency’s migrant centers

Three Mexican immigration officials, a guard and a Venezuelan migrant are being held for investigation in connection with the fire

‘Las chelemeras’ — a group of 18 women of Mayan origin from the same fishing village — have spent more than a decade journeying into the swamps, protecting and regenerating various ecosystems

The Plumia project advocates creating a virtual country for expatriate teleworkers. During the pandemic, a small fishing town in Ponta do Sol hosted a small community of them, but they have had a fraught relationship with locals

The conservative political establishment in the United States has capitalized on a massive public health crisis, betting on the demonization of Mexico as a strategy to win the 2024 presidential and legislative elections

A transcript of a recent hearing held in a court in Texas shows Guillermo Turrent and Javier Gutiérrez failed to convince a judge to dismiss CFE International’s case against them

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