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The Mexican town where migrants disappear

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This week we travel to Chiapas, in southern Mexico, where EL PAÍS has identified three mass disappearances of migrants between September and December 2024 with the same pattern. In a territory marked by battles between organized crime groups, all signs point to human trafficking.

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In another blow for migrants, Florida is launching an operation to arrest and deport parents and guardians of unaccompanied migrant children, under the guise of checking on the safety of their family situation.

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As the Russia-Ukraine war grinds on without any major progress on a peace deal, Kaja Kallas, former PM of Estonia and now the EU’s foreign policy chief, explains why the Kremlin is merely pretending to negotiate.

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In lighter news, we take a look back at 50 years of the all-girl rock band The Runaways, and examine why anonymous philanthropy is a thing of the past.

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We hope you enjoy this selection of stories from El PAÍS USA Edition.

The Mexican town where migrants disappear‌

After passing through San José El Hueyate and Puerto Madero, on the Chiapas coast near the Guatemala border, 83 migrants have gone missing. EL PAÍS has identified three mass disappearances between September and December 2024 with the same modus operandi

Florida launches operation to arrest more parents and guardians of unaccompanied migrant children‌

ICE cites the fight against child trafficking to justify the involvement of local law enforcement in controls on sponsors, but critics denounce it as a ploy to deport more people

Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who flirted with drug trafficking‌

Convicted of associating with criminals who paid him bribes, and of possessing an arsenal of firearms, the former president was released from prison after being pardoned by Trump

Kaja Kallas: ‘We should stop pretending that Russia is negotiating peace and force it to do so’‌

The EU’s foreign policy chief discusses peace plans for Ukraine, her relationship with Donald Trump and the changing world order

Over a million descendants of Spaniards have applied for citizenship, overwhelming consulates‌

Another 1.3 million are waiting for an appointment. The avalanche of applications in the final months before a deadline expired could delay the process for years. Most applicants come from Argentina, followed by Cuba and Mexico

The Anacé Indigenous people are protesting TikTok’s construction of the largest data center in Brazil‌

The native people, who fear the social and environmental impact of the project, accuse the company of not consulting them about installing multi-billion dollar infrastructure on their traditional lands

The cost of living and housing in China is forcing young people to move out of megacities‌

Tired of the hyper-competitiveness of metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai, a new generation is beginning to move to cities like Chengdu and Changsha

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing‌

One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 billion in 2024

50 years of The Runaways: ‘Getting loaded on drugs, drinking, hating people, falling in love with somebody’‌

The band led by Joan Jett was one of rock’s most disruptive — made up of girls in a tremendously masculinized world, it had a short, brilliant, shadowy career