Don Diego', but the man who turned him in says he is still waiting for the bounty Tito will never forget the night he learned that the FBI had put a $5m price on the head of Diego León Montoya Sánchez ("Don Diego"), the leader of what was then Colombia's most powerful drug cartel. As the newest name on the FBI's list of 10 most wanted, Montoya was second only to Osama bin Laden as America's most wanted....
Two inmates at the Santa Martha Acatitla penitentiary in Mexico City discuss their participation in a free wrestling programme set up to help other inmates tackle prison life ...
s arrest suggested to be in response to release of Rafael Caro Quintero, jailed for killing of DEA agent After Osama Bin Laden was captured in 2011, speculation flowered in Mexico that Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán – the world's most wanted drug trafficker – could be the next target for a similar special US-led operation. But while US involvement in taking down the head of the Sinaloa Cartel on Saturday...
Benjamin Smith: Murder rates are down and Ciudad Juárez is recovering, but the capture of other drug lords didn’t change much Benjamin Smith ...
Border arrest of the son of cartel boss’s deputy was one of several turning points in long hunt for Joaquin Guzman ...
s most wanted drugs trafficker spent his final days of freedom scrambling through tunnels and drains Washington will seek the extradition of Mexico's most-wanted man, the US attorney's office announced Sunday, as reports emerged that Joaquín Guzmán Loera spent his final days of freedom scrambling through tunnels and drains before ending up pinned to a bed in a beachside condominium unable to reach...
s most infamous drug lord, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, has been captured, 13 years after escaping from a high-security jail. President Enrique Peña Nieto confirmed the arrest via his Twitter account with congratulatory messages for the Mexican security forces in what could prove to be the most significant single development yet in the drug wars that have battered Mexico since the launch of a crackdown...
Before meeting Mexican and Canadian heads of state, president bypasses Congress by signing trade liberalisation orders Dan Roberts ...
American, Mexican and Canadian heads of state will meet to discuss economic partnerships at summit in Toluca Dan Roberts ...
s largest potential wind resources and vast biomass capacity, but renewables in Central America have grown rapidly; Mexico is challenging Brazil in wind, leads the region in solar and has huge geothermal reserves. The potential scale of Brazil's green economy hints at the overall size of this market, with the Carbon Trust pointing to the country's " $200bn low carbon opportunity". In 2013 the UK's...
Valentine's Day is often maligned or grudgingly celebrated but some couples around the world have found unorthodox methods to mark the day ...
I want to be alone with my family' José Salvador Alvarenga has surprised doctors with his good physical condition, though they caution that the famed castaway is psychologically fragile as he recovers from what he has described as more than a year adrift at sea surviving on raw fish, turtles and bird blood. All of the doctors who examined Alvarenga after he returned to his native El Salvador said he...
s a particular kind of American writing that has never properly made it here. It started with Thoreau and Melville, developed in the 1950s with the Beats, and came of age in the seventies when the likes of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S Thompson hit the headlines with their "new journalism". It's about reality, this kind of writing – on-the-ground and up-close documentary, reportage, interview – but with the...
s salamander-like axolotl may have disappeared from its only known natural habitat in Mexico City's few remaining lakes. It is disturbing news for the amphibian which has a slimy tail, plume-like gills and mouth that curls into an apparent smile. Growing up to a foot long (30 cm) and known as the "water monster" or the "Mexican walking fish", its only natural habitat is the Xochimilco network of lakes...
s mansion and subsequently driving under the influence has already gathered nearly 80,000 signatures, it seems necessary to take up his cause. This is not, I assure you, because he turned in what must be the sweetest mugshot ever or even because I'm so terribly concerned about his ultimate fate – I think we all know he's going to be just fine – but simply because many other legal immigrants in the...
Decline of Monarchs wintering in Mexico now marks a statistical long-term trend, experts say ...
s milkweed breeding grounds in US and Canada A historic low in the number of Monarch butterflies overwintering in a wooded sanctuary in central Mexico is prompting experts to warn that the insects's famed annual migration from Canada and the United States could fade away soon. "The news is bad, really bad," said Omar Vidal, the World Wild Life Fund's Mexico director. "The Monarch migration, the symbol...
$12m drone, which crashed due to mechanical problems, was part of fleet that patrols Mexico border Rory Carroll ...
s difficult for conservative candidates to move forward because inequality is such an entrenched issue," said Ana Quintana, a Latin America expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. "And it's hard to implement free-market, institutional reforms when you need to make sure a significant portion of the population can get enough to eat." Latin America's right could once identify itself as pro-business...
s prize for literature, from the Spanish king, Juan Carlos, the Mexican poet and novelist José Emilio Pacheco's trousers fell to his knees. Unabashed, he hitched them up with one hand, declaring that "an incident like this is a cure for vanity". This self-deprecating humour was one of the characteristics of a writer often described as the most important Mexican poet of the second half of the 20th century....