Mexico Project

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Contact sheet with photographs of President Bush addressing the Drug Enforcement Administration on June 29, 1992

New Challenges, Old Playbook: The U.S.-Mexico Drug War Partnership

Washington, D.C., April 29, 2026 - The reported deaths last week of two CIA officials in northern Mexico after an operation to dismantle a clandestine drug lab have heightened…

Apr 29, 2026

Previous Postings

The DEA and Ayotzinapa

Sep 26, 2025

JFK Files Detail Close Intelligence Collaboration Between CIA and Mexico

May 19, 2025

Fifty Years of Silence: Mexico Faces the Legacy of its Dirty War

Dec 20, 2024

The Impunity Cascade: Ayotzinapa at Ten Years

Sep 26, 2024

Truth Commission Documents 25 Years of State Violence During Mexican Dirty War

Aug 19, 2024

Keeping the Secrets: U.S. Silence about Ayotzinapa

Sep 26, 2023

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

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About this Project

Since 1994, and intensively since 2000, the National Security Archive's Mexico Project has sought to identify and obtain the release of documents from secret government archives on United States and Mexico since 1960, and to disseminate those records through publications, conferences and the Archive's Web site. In order to obtain the declassified documents, we use the Freedom of Information Act to compel U.S. agencies such as the State Department, CIA, Pentagon, Treasury Department and Justice Department to review and release records relevant to the project.

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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

Revelan los mensajes que ocultó la DEA sobre la desaparición de los 43

La Jornada

Sep 27, 2025

Mass kidnapping of Mexican students still unsolved 11 years later

Courthouse News Service

Sep 26, 2025

Gobiernos de México colaboraron con la CIA de los años 60 a 1994

La Jornada

May 20, 2025

The Modern Surveillance State: Mexico and the CIA during the Cold War

NACLA

May 19, 2025

Did the US Cause Its Own Border Crisis?

Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting

Sep 28, 2024

Project team

Director

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.

Assistant Director

Claire Dorfman is the Assistant Director of the Mexico Project, which obtains and analyzes declassified US and other government records concerning US policy in Mexico and US-Mexico relations, with an emphasis on issues related to security, migration, the drug war, democracy and human rights.