Mexico Project

Featured Posting

Keeping the Secrets: U.S. Silence about Ayotzinapa

Washington, D.C., September 26, 2023 - Nine years ago today, 43 Mexican college students were violently abducted and disappeared by police and drug traffickers in the town of…

Sep 26, 2023

Previous Postings

Ayotzinapa Case Fugitive Interviewed by Israeli Magazine

Apr 14, 2023

After Ayotzinapa Podcast Wins Prestigious Journalism Award

Apr 3, 2023

Page one of the report Escuela Normal Rural “Raúl Isidros Burgos,” produced by the 35th Military Zone’s “Internal Order Analysis Group” in August 2006

Guacamaya Leaks and the Ayotzinapa Case

Mar 10, 2023

SPECIAL EVENT - After Ayotzinapa: Mexico's Disappeared 43

Jan 19, 2023

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

Sep 30, 2022

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

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

Pegasus spyware reaches into Mexican president’s inner circle

The Washington Post

May 24, 2023

Mexico army ignored cartel warnings before mass student kidnapping, emails show

The Guardian

Apr 26, 2023

Entrevista a Zerón, maniobra para sepultar su extradición

La Jornada

Apr 15, 2023

Mexican military accused of hindering probe of 43 missing students

The Washington Post

Mar 31, 2023

Mexico’s Missing: 100,000+ Cases Unsolved as Leaked Military Docs Shed New Light on Ayotzinapa 43

Democracy Now!

Mar 15, 2023

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.