(CNN) –– Cuando Javier Zaragoza se despierta por la mañana, se prepara un porro para desayunar. Repite esto cuatro veces al día. Desde hace cinco años, cultiva seis plantas de marihuana para uso personal en su casa de Chimalhuacán, Estado de México. «Me parece que está bien porque es para uso personal. No tengo que comprársela al crimen organizado», dijo a CNN. «Y, de alguna manera, la gente ya no te ve como un criminal», añadió. Pronto, esto podría dejar de ser un delito. Se espera que en abr

Mexico City (CNN) When Javier Zaragoza wakes up in the morning, he rolls a blunt for breakfast. He repeats it four times a day. For the past five years, he's been growing six marijuana plants for personal use at his home in Chimalhuacán, State of Mexico. "It feels right because it's for personal use. I don't have to buy it from organized crime," he told CNN. "And somehow people no longer see you as a criminal." Soon, it may no longer be a crime. In April, Mexico's Senate is expected to approv

Mexico's government has released a new report that shows nearly 120,000 victims of Covid-19 may have gone uncounted until now -- a finding which would raise the country's death toll from the virus by nearly 60%. The new Health Ministry report suggests that a total of more than 321,000 people have likely died from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.

(CNN) — El gobierno de México publicó un informe que revela que su número de muertos por covid-19 supera los 321.000, en lugar del total de 201.429 muertes reportadas hasta el sábado, un 60% más que el número oficialmente informado. Desde entonces, del 15 de febrero hasta el sábado, ha habido 27.223 muertes adicionales por covid-19 según un análisis de CNN de los datos del

(CNN) — El canciller de México, Marcelo Ebrard, anunció este miércoles que el país había recibido 12 millones de dosis de la vacuna AstraZeneca que están en el proceso de empaque final para iniciar la distribución para México y los países de América Latina. «Hoy vamos a recibir ocho millones de dosis adicionales por lo que tendremos en total 18 millones de dosis en el laboratorio de Liomont; están en el proceso final para iniciar la distribución en México y América Latina, para los países que...

The Civil Aviation Authority announced the closure on Twitter, saying that they took the decision as a result of "the change of wind direction from south to north and the increase of the Pacaya's volcanic activity, and the rise in ashfall." According to the Civil Aviation Authority, the measure was taken following the recommendation of the National Institute of Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology, and Hydrology (INSIVUMEH) which announced the increase of volcanic ash in many areas of the capit

(CNN) — La Cancillería de México anunció medidas de restricción de viajes en sus fronteras norte y sur a partir de este viernes. «Para prevenir la propagación del covid-19, México impondrá a partir del 19 de marzo de 2021 restricciones al tránsito terrestre para actividades no esenciales en su frontera norte y sur», dijo el jueves la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores en Twitter. «Adicionalmente, el Gobierno de México desplegará medidas de control sanitario en el norte y sur del país».

He fled Guatemala looking for a better life. But he and 18 others were killed en route to the US. COMITANCILLO, Guatemala – In early January, Marvin Alberto Tomás woke up here in his hometown, eager to start the long journey to America he hoped would provide a better life for his mother and four little sisters. Instead, the nearly 2,000-mile trip through two countries would end with his death. Tomás, 22, nicknamed "El Zurdo" or "Lefty," was one of 19 migrants whose charred bodies were found J

He fled Guatemala for a better life in the US. Instead, he found despair and death in Mexico COMITANCILLO, Guatemala — In early January, Marvin Alberto Tomás woke up here in his hometown, eager to start the long journey to America he hoped would provide a better life for his mother and four little sisters. Instead, the nearly 2,000-mile trip through two countries would end with his death.

¿Cómo cárteles del narcotráfico buscan ganar adeptos a través de TikTok? Vea aquí el programa Cuestión de Poder del miércoles 10 de febrero de 2021

Un trabajo de la periodista Karol Suárez para The Courier Journal retomó la extensión del narco en TikTok y apuntó cómo se adaptó la estrategia criminal para llegar a nuevas generaciones.

How Mexican drug cartels are using TikTok to entice young people into organized crime In a one-minute TikTok video last fall, drug traffickers on a rigid inflatable boat yelled to the pilot to speed up as a Customs Surveillance Service vessel of Spain took chase. The viral video, which got more than 1 million views, looked like a scene from the Netflix “Narcos” series. But it was a real, high-speed chase in the cartel drug wars.

How Mexican drug cartels are using TikTok to entice young people into organized crime In a one-minute TikTok video last fall, drug traffickers on a rigid inflatable boat yelled to the pilot to speed up as a Customs Surveillance Service vessel of Spain took chase. The viral video, which got more than one million views, looked like a scene from the Netflix “Narco” series. But it was a real, high-speed chase in the cartel drug wars. Cartels have long used social media to shock and intimidate thei

(CNN) — The organizers of a "international arts, music and cultural festival" have apologized after images and video posted on social media revealed packed crowds of partiers without masks in Mexico's hipster resort town of Tulum. With art installations and trancey electronic music sets that echoed Burning Man, yoga workshops and "food and wine happenings," the five-day Art With Me festival drew hundreds of attendees in mid-November. Tickets, priced in the hundreds of dollars, had sold out weeks earlier.

Mexico’s Health Ministry has signed a deal to buy 35 million doses of China’s CanSino Biologics vaccine, according to Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard in a tweet posted late Wednesday. Ebrard had said previously that Mexico hoped to make the deal official this week. Mexico has confirmed nearly 1.2 million coronavirus cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. The country has reported the word's fourth-highest death toll from the virus, with more than 111,000 fatalities.

Mexican officials announced Tuesday that health care workers will receive top priority when the country’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign begins this month, with other vulnerable populations following in the coming months. Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters the country will receive 250,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in December, the majority of which will be given to health care workers in Mexico City, the center of the country’s outbreak. In January, February, and March an additional 1 million doses of that same vaccine will arrive each month. Ebrard added an additional 12 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine will arrive in April. That will be enough to vaccinate roughly 7.6 million Mexicans, given the Pfizer vaccine’s two-dose requirement.

"El Mencho," a top U.S. target in charge of a ruthless cartel empire, remains on the run but not unscathed. It has been a year since The Courier Journal published a special report introducing the billionaire drug lord "El Mencho" and his Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, to readers, including its startling reach into small-town America.

In yet an other assault on Mexico's rampant illegal drug trade, Mexican officials and U.S. drug agents teamed to target nearly 2,000 men, women and companies to freeze more than $1.1 billion in assets of a deadly drug cartel.

Silvia Morán thinks Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación took her son. This cartel has plagued hundreds of Mexican mothers as their kids have disappeared.

Carlos Almada Castrillo, head of Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación operations in Mexico's second-largest city, could have been a key witness for U.S. prosecutors as they work to topple the global drug empire. But he was found hanging in a Mexican jail cell in March. Investigators and experts tracking drug cartel developments say the 27-year-old's death is likely a murder disguised as a suicide to prevent him from testifying in the U.S., both a senior official with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Admin