Mexico Project

Featured Posting

Echeverría’s Legacy of “Co-opt and Control”

Washington, D.C., September 30, 2022 - To mark this year’s anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, the National Security Archive today posted an essential collection of ten…

Sep 30, 2022

Previous Postings

Ayotzinapa Investigations

Apr 26, 2022

Angela Buitrago, Claudia Paz y Paz, and Francisco Cox

Mexican Military Archives Produce New Revelations in the Ayotzinapa Case

Apr 1, 2022

Fire Expert Refuted Government Claim That
43 Disappeared Students Were Incinerated at Infamous Dump

Jan 28, 2022

Journalist and Author John Gibler, Source: The Wild Detectives

Kate Doyle Interviews Journalist John Gibler Ahead of Episode 2 Release of "After Ayotzinapa"

Jan 21, 2022

“After Ayotzinapa” Podcast Investigates Horrific Mexican Atrocity

Jan 10, 2022

Mexico's 1971 Corpus Christi Massacre, Fifty Years Later

Jun 10, 2021

Forensic specialists from the Mexican Federal Police examine one of the primary crime scenes from the Allende massacre on January 28, 2014.

The Allende Massacre in Mexico: A Decade of Impunity

Mar 18, 2021

U.S. Prosecutions Bring Mexico Corruption into Focus

Dec 9, 2020

Fifty Years After Tlatelolco, Censoring the Mexican Archives: Mexico’s “Dirty War” Files Withdrawn from Public Access

Oct 2, 2018

Blog Posts

Mexican Community Seeks Help in Mining Conflict

Nov 27, 2019

Five Years Later, the Search Continues

Sep 26, 2019

Transcripts of intercepted cell phones open new lines of investigation in Ayotzinapa case

Apr 16, 2018

Journalists Are Dying in Mexico

Jun 15, 2017

Tlatlaya Revealed: Archive Petition Cracks Open Investigative File on Mexican Army Massacre

Mar 4, 2016

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In the Media

A Haunting Case in Mexico Finally Solved, Until the Evidence Fell Apart

The New York Times

Oct 26, 2022

Prosecutor quits case of 43 missing Mexican students amid new turmoil

The Washington Post

Sep 27, 2022

After Ayotzinapa: Arrests and Intrigue

Reveal News

Sep 24, 2022

Can a country restore trust after students disappear? Mexico takes responsibility.

The Christian Science Monitor

Aug 30, 2022

Diario Militar: estos son los nueve militares que deben enfrentar juicio

Plaza Publica

May 7, 2022

Project co-directors

Kate Doyle

KATE DOYLE is a Senior Analyst of U.S. policy in Latin America at the National Security Archive. She directs several major research projects (Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador) that seek to connect the right to truth and access to information with human rights and justice struggles in Latin America.

Michael L. Evans

MICHAEL L. EVANS is a senior analyst and director of the Archive's Colombia and Mexico documentation projects. Evans is editor of Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010, a primary source collection of more than 2,000 declassified documents on political violence and U.S. policy in Colombia.