A joint investigation by EL PAÍS and Armando.info unveils the inner workings of a scheme involving dozens of individuals and companies that illicitly sold crude and transferred the money through tax havens in a shady multi-million-dollar business
An ad at a Miami congress and fast-track legal approval for the cryptocurrency have turned the leader into a geek hero. But experts are concerned about volatility and cybercrime
Samuel García is the new governor of the Mexican state of Nuevo León thanks to the work of his ‘influencer’ wife, and other politicians are now rushing to adopt this new style of campaigning
Home to turtles, sharks and whales, the newly expanded Cordillera de Coiba zone has nine mountain ranges under the ocean’s surface, with some seamounts more than 3,000 meters tall
The medical treatment, which combines therapy and diagnostics, has given terminal prostate cancer patients a 35% increased survival time in trials
The leftist teacher and his opponent Keiko Fujimori are preparing for a legal battle that could stretch over two weeks, and threatens to further ramp up tensions in an already-fractured country
EL PAÍS traveled to the remote mountain region where the man who currently holds a narrow lead in the vote count grew up, a land that has shaped his political ideas and personal beliefs
The State Department moves dozens of nations from level 4 to 3, meaning it is still not safe for unvaccinated visitors
The Mexican government has said that the one million Janssen doses from the Biden administration will be administered to the 18-40 age group in northern states such as Sonora and Baja California
Left-wing teacher announces he has won the run-off vote against Keiko Fujimori and says he will form a government that respects democracy and the constitution
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Right-wing presidential candidate claims there have been irregularities as a razor-thin margin of victory opens for her rival Pedro Castillo. Observers, however, say the vote was clean
Researchers in the UK forced bacteria to produce proteins that do not exist in nature, protecting them from viral infection and opening up several possibilities for use in medicine and new materials
A huge sinkhole has caused a family to lose their home in Santa María Zacatepec. While the authorities and scientists investigate the phenomenon, the small village has become a tourist attraction
The former commander of the Special Forces Corps installed a bar at his barracks, used soldiers as waiters at private parties and charged the bill to the military budget
Mexico has just five glaciers left, spread over two mountains: Iztaccíhuatl and Pico de Orizaba. Covering less than one square kilometer of ice, none of them are likely to exist by 2050, according to experts, who blame global warming for this rapidly disappearing source of freshwater
A study of Ancient Egyptian paintings and genetic analysis point to the Kordofan melon, a wild variety with a white flesh that is still grown in the region of Darfur
The director of the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain talks to EL PAÍS about the impact of human activity on the planet and the risk of a sixth extinction
EL PAÍS speaks to the president of Colombia in the midst of a violent crisis. ‘It’s our turn today, but this will be replicated in many parts of the world,’ he says of the unrest
Increasingly assertive regional powers in the north have combined with scandals and incidents of violence to create a difficult environment for Andrés Manuel López Obrador in upcoming elections
A decade on, a court has ordered her release, but because the public prosecution will appeal the ruling, she still remains behind bars
Forensic techniques applied to Jebel Sahaba, a prehistoric burial site in Sudan, shed new light on the death of men, women and children in inter-group battles during the Late Pleistocene
Almost five months after he took office, President Joe Biden has made no move to lift sanctions or open dialogue, while diplomacy has given way to the acrimonious rhetoric of the Trump era
The US has agreed to free rival narc bosses Vicente Zambada and Eduardo Arellano Felix in exchange for insider information about the Mexican underworld
The son of the author of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ has written an intimate portrait of his father’s struggle with memory loss, and the death of his mother Mercedes Barcha, who passed away last year
For the past four years, Carmen Carcelén has been working tirelessly to offer free food and shelter in her home in El Juncal, Ecuador to citizens fleeing the neighboring country
New research concludes the microscopic beings on a spacecraft that went down in 2019 did not survive the impact, but the findings help shed light on the origins of life in the universe
