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6 days ago | 
elpais.com | Alejandro Cid |Fernando Garcia |Fernando García
Teocaltiche es un municipio del Jalisco rural, algo menos de 40.000 habitantes cerca de la frontera con Aguascalientes y Guanajuato, un pueblo que come de labrar el campo y, en la última década, cada vez más de las remesas que los vecinos que emigraron a Estados Unidos envían de vuelta a casa cada mes.
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1 week ago | 
elpais.com | Andres Rodriguez |Alejandro Cid
Barack Obama también se dejó contagiar por la fiebre de los corridos tumbados. En 2023, el expresidente de Estados Unidos incluyó en su lista de éxitos veraniegos una de las canciones de Peso Pluma, su principal exponente. No fue el único en sucumbir a un género que reventaba las listas de éxitos por todo el mundo.
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1 week ago | 
english.elpais.com | Alejandro Cid |Erika Rosete |Pablo Ferri
Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, free after serving a 40-year sentence, went from marijuana smuggler to cocaine trafficker with the help of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero, until their downfall after the murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena Atizapán de Zaragoza (State of Mexico) - Don Neto called his room in Guadalupe Victoria prison, a penitentiary surrounded by a plain of farmland halfway between Durango and Torreón, “the forgotten cell.” In 2011, after two decades in the...
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2 weeks ago | 
english.elpais.com | Alejandro Cid |Pablo Ferri |David Marcial Perez |David Pérez
Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, or, as he is remembered by the corridos, “Don Neto,” is a free man again at 95, although at his age freedom probably doesn’t differ much from the house arrest he had been under since 2016. Don Neto spent four decades as a resident of the Mexican prison system, convicted of the brutal murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena and Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala in February 1985.
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3 weeks ago | 
english.elpais.com | Alejandro Cid |Carmen Morán Breña |Pablo Ferri
A battle broke out on the border between the Mexican states of Jalisco and Michoacán on March 16. In Guadalupe de Lerma, near where it all began, the first casualties fell. Desperate audio recordings began arriving at the barracks: “Help, help, help! We need help here at the entrance to Tanhuato. They have us in a damned truck. They attacked us on Highway 45.”Amid the words, dry fire could be heard.
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3 weeks ago | 
english.elpais.com | Alejandro Cid |Carmen Morán Breña
Óscar Antonio López Enamorado wanted to study. But in Honduras, back in 2009, this was an impossible dream. At the age of 19, he left behind a country mired in violence and overtaken by a military coup. He managed to reach the United States. He met some young men who promised him work and a good salary in Mexico. He trusted them. He retraced his steps and crossed the border south. They took him to a ranch in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
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1 month ago | 
english.elpais.com | Alejandro Cid |Alejandro López
The bullet took mercy on him. They forced him to his knees, the gun against his head. The shots —“bang, bang, bang” — pierced the quiet of the early morning at Laguna Salada, deep in the vast, desolate desert that surrounds Mexicali. “I didn’t feel anything, just heat. When the bullet hit me, everything went blurry, and I fainted.”The shot grazed his forehead, leaving a scar that’s still visible more than 20 years later — a wrinkled mark at the base of his scalp — but it didn’t lodge in his skull.
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1 month ago | 
english.elpais.com | Alejandro Cid |Pablo Ferri
One day in September 1992, two Mexican brothers entered the Imperial bar in San Francisco, California, to sell five ounces of heroin (about 140 grams.) Since 1986, the youngest of the two, Nemesio, had been crossing the Rio Grande with marijuana and other illegal substances on a regular basis. That year, he was arrested in possession of stolen goods and a gun.
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2 months ago | 
english.elpais.com | Alejandro Cid |Alícia Fàbregas |Jaime Lorite
The most famous defender of the existence of UFOs in Mexico welcomes EL PAÍS into his house. In an underground dwelling, surrounded by nature, he discusses his encounters with aliens, the time that he heard the Virgin of Guadalupe, or his speech in Congress Jaime Maussan has seen things that you wouldn’t believe. Strange events that to the untrained eye may seem irrelevant and disconnected, even delusional.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
elpais.com | Jaime Porras Ferreyra |Alejandro Santos |Alejandro Cid
El Servicio de Policía de Toronto anunció este martes el mayor decomiso de cocaína en la historia de la ciudad, la más poblada de Canadá. El peso del cargamento es de 835 kilogramos, con un valor estimado en las calles de 85 millones de dólares canadienses (unos 59,4 millones de dólares estadounidenses).
