Washington, D.C., October 1, 2026 - The CIA continues to keep secret major substantive portions of an internal accounting of its activities in Mexico, including information on covert operations targeting student groups in the days leading up to the massacre at Tlatelolco 58 years ago this week on October 2, 1968.
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 tensions between the two countries over the extent of U.S. government involvement in Mexican security operations. First identified as U.S.
Washington, D.C., 19 de marzo de 2026 - El tribunal federal de Ottawa finalmente decidió revocar la ciudadanía canadiense de un oficial militar guatemalteco que participó en una horrible y tristemente célebre masacre de cientos de civiles inocentes en 1982.
El 5 de febrero, la decisión concluyó que Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes, un ex subteniente y miembro de las fuerzas especiales Kaibiles, cometió crímenes de lesa humanidad al participar en la masacre de hombres, mujeres y niños que vivían en el pequeño pueblo de Dos Erres, en el norte de Guatemala.
Washington, D.C., February 24, 2026 - After a decade-long investigation and a trial lasting more than five weeks, a federal court in Ottawa has ruled to revoke the Canadian citizenship of a Guatemalan military officer who participated in a horrific and notorious massacre of hundreds of innocent civilians in 1982.
Washington, D.C., January 16, 2026 - The Justice Department official who wrote the legal opinion determining that President Donald Trump had the constitutional authority to “unilaterally order” the “extraordinary rendition” of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro relied heavily on secret legal architecture authored 36 years ago by William P. Barr to justify the U.S. invasion of Panama, according to declassified documents uncovered by the National Security Archive.
Washington, D.C., September 26, 2025 - The eleventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa college brings a grim reckoning. To date, no one has been held accountable for the tragic “night of Iguala” that exploded on September 26, 2014. No mass graves have been located, no remains identified since the bone fragments of two boys found in 2021. Tomás Zerón, the Mexican official accused of orchestrating the cover-up that destroyed the early investigation, remains a fugitive protected by Israel.
Washington, D.C., 4 de septiembre de 2025 - Hace veinte años, un grupo de investigadores de derechos humanos en Guatemala se topó con un enorme archivo que contenía millones de registros históricos pertenecientes a la antigua y brutal fuerza policíaca nacional del país.
Washington, D.C., August 20, 2025 - Twenty years ago, a group of human rights investigators in Guatemala stumbled upon an enormous archive containing millions of historical records belonging to the country’s brutal former national police force.
Washington, D.C., September 3, 2025 - Covert CIA surveillance of a Soviet agent under diplomatic cover in Mexico City in 1968 led to the acquisition of intelligence on the “entire clandestine leadership” of the Colombian Communist Party and the nascent FARC insurgent group, according to declassified records from the John F. Kennedy assassination papers released earlier this year.
Washington, D.C., May 19, 2025 – Mexico welcomed CIA espionage activities in Mexico during the Cold War and even initiated some of them, according to recently declassified documents published today by the National Security Archive.