The clock struck noon when the thunder of three gunshots shattered the calm of the Judicial City.In seconds, the noise of traffic turned into screams, chaos, and silence.David Cohen Sacal, one of the most respected and feared lawyers in the Mexican capital, fell in front of the door of the building where he had spent […]

This Friday, it was announced that Mexican influencer Vanessa Gurrola Peraza is being held at the Las Colinas women’s prison in San Diego, California, on charges of first-degree murder. According to a file in the prison’s inmate registry, US authorities arrested the former Mazatlán Carnival queen last September. This is in connection with the murder […]

The New York Times raised this Sunday the possibility that cartels in Mexico could be the next to be bombed by Donald Trump following the attacks on boats in the Caribbean. In an article published this Sunday, journalists Paulina Villegas and Jack Nicas recall that Trump stated in May that he “would be honored” to […]

Did you know that tobacco is of American origin? Centuries before the arrival of the Spanish, it already had countless uses among indigenous peoples. From Argentina to southern Canada, the use of tobacco spread throughout the American continent several centuries before the Conquest. This plant was smoked, inhaled, prepared into medicines, used in ceremonies, and […]

The exhibition, dedicated to more than five decades of archaeological research at Cobá, restores the relevance of this Mayan site, not only for its historical richness, but also for the impact of the work carried out since the second half of the 20th century. The Museo Maya de Cancún currently houses the exhibition, organized by […]

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) suggested a series of military strikes against targets in Mexico that included targeted assassinations of Mexican cartel leaders and attacks on their infrastructure in the country, but the initiative was rejected by the White House and the Pentagon, The Washington Post reported Friday. The attacks were proposed during the […]

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department has reportedly revoked the visas of Sonia Villarreal Pérez, current Undersecretary of Government for the Northern Region of Coahuila, former mayor of Piedras Negras, and Secretary of Public Security in the previous administration, and her husband, Jorge Miguel Barajas, chief of the State Police. According to local media […]

On August 15, six people were arrested in Texas for wire fraud while applying for loans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among those arrested is Bernardo Gómez Guajardo, a council member for the National Action Party (PAN) in Río Bravo, Tamaulipas. In a statement, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, Nicholas J. […]

Ismael El Mayo Zambada will plead guilty before a US court in a hearing initially scheduled for next Monday in New York. One of the long-time leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, Zambada has been imprisoned in the US since July 2024, when he was arrested at an airfield a few kilometers north of the Mexican […]

At her morning press conference this Friday, President Claudia Sheinbaum asserted that there is no investigation in Mexico linking her Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, to the Sinaloa Cartel, as the United States government had claimed. The President urged the US administration, led by Donald Trump, to demonstrate the relationship between Maduro and this criminal group. […]