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In the hours after Mexican drug lord "El Mencho’s" killing by the military, his Jalisco New Generation Cartel responded by deploying hundreds of roadblocks, torching banks and supermarkets — and…

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In the hours after Mexican drug lord "El Mencho’s" killing by the military, his Jalisco New Generation Cartel responded by deploying hundreds of roadblocks, torching banks and supermarkets — and rapid...

OCCRP reviewed the sales of 30 planes by Lance Zane Ricotta’s companies since 2014, and found evidence that 11 of them were seized, investigated, or found abroad in suspected or confirmed drug cases. ...

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Men accused of murder, drug trafficking, and cartel activity have used “amparos,” which are supposed to protect individual rights against miscarriages of justice, to indefinitely delay trials and extr...

A 22-year-old’s death has highlighted the tensions between police and student teachers with a tradition of protest.

Illegal cattle ranches clearing the Amazon rainforest are behind the leather in high-end handbags made by top European and American fashion houses, a new report has found.

Sophisticated criminal networks are illegally importing huge volumes of fuel — and piling pressure on Mexico’s president

Residents of San Cristóbal de las Casas are demanding change from corporations and government to secure reliable access to potable water.

Independent British journalist Will Neal was arbitrarily denied entry into Georgia, where he has lived since 2022, upon returning from a trip to the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU). Report...

Siniša Mali, the former mayor of Belgrade and Serbia’s current finance minister, sent his children to an elite school where a year’s tuition cost far more than his official income. He claimed that…

Escribí una historia que fue citada en una denuncia que condujo al primer juicio político contra Donald Trump. Ahora está siendo usada, como parte de una teoría de la conspiración, para atacar los fo...

'Estamos buscando túneles en toda la franja fronteriza derivado del hallazgo que hubo del túnel pasado', aseguró Sugey Aguilar, subsecretaria de Seguridad Pública de Chihuahua.

Ahead of elections this weekend, Mexico’s president has ramped up attacks on civil society groups.

The policy posture from Brussels remains on autopilot, effectively siding with Serbia's authoritarian president Aleksandar Vučić against the student-led protesters, while continuing 'happy talk' about...

Internal record shows Canada’s second largest oil and gas producer donated to organizations that deny climate change is an emergency and question emissions goals.

In the wilds of South Africa’s Northern Cape, poaching ‘green diamonds’ has become an almost irresistible temptation

Prosecutors, the National Guard, and the police are using state violence and drug trafficking accusations to dispossess residents.

Washington, D.C., December 20, 2024—Half a century ago, Mexico was convulsed by state violence and social upheaval. The year 1974 witnessed some of the most emblematic human rights abuses to occur dur...

Serbian authorities are using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists in a surveillance campaign.

The abduction of a Mexican community activist who campaigned against an iron ore mine owned by New York-listed Ternium has shone a light on how local cartels benefit from the presence of mining compan...