On May 6th, the freedom of expression organization Article 19 presented its annual report, “Structures of Silence: Censorship, Opacity, and Surveillance,” the first in 20 years to comprehensively analyze freedom of expression, access to information, and violence against the press in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, and Nicaragua. During the presentation in Mexico City,

Photo: Diario Red At the end of April, a series of audio messages from WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram were released between former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and the current president, Nasry Asfura, and Vice President Maria Antonieta Mejia. In these audio recordings, Juan Orlando Hernandez proposes the creation of a US-sponsored Digital Unit to

On May 5th, the Fray Bartolome de las Casas Center for Human Rights (Frayba) reported that the Committee against Enforced Disappearances (CED), a United Nations (UN) body, issued an Urgent Action directed to the Mexican State regarding the enforced disappearance of Angel Jimenez Lopez, an indigenous Tseltal Maya man from the municipality of Nicolas Ruiz.

Image: Cambio 22 On April 29th, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice formally indicted Ruben Rocha Moya and other high-ranking officials and former officials from both the Sinaloa state government and security forces for collaborating with the Sinaloa Cartel and requested their immediate extradition. According to the indictment, they allegedly received political and electoral support