Mexico

Mexico is attempting to weed out corruption and fraud from a department that Donald Trump has targeted ahead of the renegotiation of the USMCA agreement

Hundreds of migrants live crowded together in Ciudad Juárez, awaiting legal changes in the US, while others have already settled with the idea of staying

The decision opens the door to a possible plea deal between the drug lord and authorities

The Environmental Investigation Agency report that the criminal organization has earned more than $8 billion since 2019 through smuggling in Mexico bound for South America

A judge will decide on August 8 on the end of the protections contemplated in the Flores Agreement, which ensures the basic rights and services that children must receive but which Trump wants to eliminate

Around 5,000 foreigners, mostly Latin Americans, are now housed in 16 shelters in the Mexican capital, trapped between the challenges of finding an affordable way to return home or crossing an increasingly fortified U.S. border

They are the children and grandchildren of a generation that knew nothing but violence. Without support networks, criminal groups easily recruit them as spotters, or turn them into guides for migrants

Besieged by organized crime and abandoned by the state, a generation that has only known violence survives. EL PAÍS dissects the forced recruitment, sex trafficking, and lack of opportunities faced by minors on this border

Teenagers in Ciudad Juárez face precariousness, urban decline and violence every day, their options limited to organized crime or exploitative factory conditions

A group of businessmen and government officials shaped Ciudad Juárez at the whim of economic interests, which even now explain the desolate conditions in which minors have grown up over the last four decades

Sexual offenses are woven into the history of Ciudad Juárez, where authorities don’t have the necessary resources to fight the trafficking of minors

The victim was recovering from a shooting and a cartel operative posed as a relative to finish him off. At least three drivers have been murdered in the past week

Uncertainty reigns in the hours leading up to the August 1 deadline given by the US president for the implementation of his tariffs

The project’s goal is to understand the peak’s internal structure, resolve questions as to the existence of magma chambers and optimize monitoring and disaster prevention

He became an activist after retiring in 2015, developing and perfecting a system to independently account for deportation planes. He is now passing the baton to a non-profit that will continue his work

ICE launches a hiring campaign targeting retired agents to carry out the largest deportation effort in history, as desired by Trump

Hernán Bermúdez, the former head of Security and Citizen Protection in the state of Tabasco, has been showing up in Mexican Army documents since 2019. He has been identified as a key player in organized crime in his home state

Every day, migrants expelled by the Trump administration arrive in Guatemala. Others are turning back before even reaching the US-Mexico border, defeated by the growing difficulties. Returnees carry with them a sense of failure

One patient’s story illustrates how artificial intelligence can unclog a system strangled by bureaucracy

The economic effects are undermining executive confidence and potential job growth in both countries. Long-term planning has become nearly impossible, according to business leaders and experts

The arrest of the drug lord marks its first anniversary, while the Mexican State bleeds due to the fight initiated by his henchmen against the sons of his former partner, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán

The criminal group targeted farms and transport companies, intercepted packages, and imposed quotas under a regime of terror

Their father says they haven’t been able to see their lawyer since their arrest two weeks ago. Fourteen Mexicans are detained at the Trump immigration center

EL PAÍS reconstructs, on the ground and using exclusive documents, the presence of former military personnel hired by the cartels, a lethal alliance of organized crime

Over the course of a month, EL PAÍS followed the daily lives of several men held in a prison for foreigners that they call a ‘living hell.’ Speaking from the inside, they described the appalling conditions, the climate of fear, and the lives that have been taken from them by Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade

Foreign Service employees are receiving the same salary as in 1998, getting by on subsidies, and coping with grueling workdays to deal with the surge in requests for help stemming from Trump’s deportation drive