Spanish reading journal
Beginner II
Excuse me for not introducing myself. With this head of mine, good for nothing, I always get distracted. I have to force her to be of use, anything, but useful. As long as it doesn't get in the way. Since he stumbled upon the first mathematical equation he knew that he would never be able to pose or solve one. He avoided them like scabies. I'm not going to list all our failures here either. Let's say that I tried various ways or jobs for her that had a certain amount of usefulness, helpfulness, I don't know, that worked for something or someone. That they provided any practical, empirical virtue, let alone on a theoretical level. He moves forward through the days with many more things to do than he does.
Athens. Two firefighting helicopters collided yesterday west of Athens, while France kept the fire contained near Bordeaux and Hungary shut down the Paks nuclear power plant, for the first time in 44 years, due to the record drop in the flow of the Danube, amid the high temperatures and drought caused by the constant heat waves recorded in Europe so far this year, related to global warming caused by human activity.
In the context of the National Circuit of Orchestras for Peace and Territories of Peace, the Children's Symphony Orchestra of Mexico (OSIM) will tour from today until August 9 through public squares and venues in Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, San Luis Potosí and Mexico City.
Panamanian José Caballero hit a two-run home run, Gerrit Cole pitched into the sixth inning and the Yankees held on yesterday to beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1. The New York ninth lasted three scoreless innings from relievers Brent Headrick, Paul Blackburn and David Bednar to take two of the three games in the series.
Morena in Mexico City called on mayors to monitor the actions of their public officials, especially those who work in urban development areas, in order to combat the dispossession mafia.
Paternal absence is a deep wound that many Mexican families remain silent about. This theme is addressed in the monologue My Father's Socks, where it is not only narrated from the perspective of the person who abandons him, but also of those who have had to rebuild themselves from that lack.
The national leadership of Morena postponed at the end of the month the registration of those seeking to be candidates for federal deputies and mayors in the 2027 election and anticipated that there will be specific requirements, different from those defined for those seeking one of the 17 governorships in dispute for that year.
Mexican exports of computer equipment to the United States grew 72.64 percent at an annual rate during the first five months of 2026, reaching approximately 52 billion dollars, according to figures from the Bank of Mexico (BdeM).
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chis., When inaugurating the meetings of arts and resistance and rebellion, Subcommander Moisés, of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), stated that “not content with annihilating human beings, the capitalist system destroys nature, mother earth,” so “we have to choose: surrender, faint, resign ourselves and let each person see it individually or organize with others.”
We have always pointed out, in this same space of reflection, that migration is a universal and timeless phenomenon: it has been present on all five continents and has its roots in the genesis of history and even prehistory. It is not an ideological, cultural, religious, much less a racial issue. Only the extreme right stigmatizes it and refuses to understand its nature, everywhere.
History repeats itself, like so many other times: from the “largest environmental disaster in the history of mining in Mexico” (40 thousand cubic meters of sulfuric acid in the Sonora and Bacanuchi rivers, on August 6, 2014), without leaving aside the toxic spill in the Sea of Cortez (3 thousand liters of sulfuric acid, in July 2019), to the most recent, but not the last (70 thousand liters of sodium hydrosulfide spilled into a stream in Naco, Sonora, on July 26, affecting an area of 1.7 square kilometers; originally there was talk of 59 thousand liters), after the derailment of a Ferromex wagon (owned by Grupo México) in the municipality of Naco, Sonora, and whatever accumulates.
Beyond sports, the case of Gianni Infantino, the contested leader of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), exhibits the widespread corrupt decomposition that Trumpism generates, with its business family aspects, in almost everything it touches.
“The capitalist system is an inhuman, cruel and criminal system,” stated insurgent subcommander Moisés, spokesperson for the EZLN, during the War Against Humanity Hotbed. (Populations and nature under siege), held between July 20 and 24. And he concluded: we do not believe that this system can be humanized.
Tehran. President Donald Trump assured yesterday that negotiations with Iran will resume today, probably through intermediaries. He said conversations with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and the Islamic Republic prompted him to call off what would have been the attack, “by far the largest since World War II.”
The conventional approach to economic theory focuses on the existence of limited resources to satisfy unlimited human needs. The issue is posed as an environment of options that are taken rationally. The essential problem points to scarcity. This implies facing the so-called opportunity cost: the economic, personal or collective benefit that is forgone by choosing one option instead of another.
Of the 2.9 million investors who participate in the CetesDirecto platform, three out of five are from the millennials and Z generations.
Walking through the streets, parking lots and corridors of the Presidente Kennedy housing unit, in the Jardín Balbuena neighborhood, Venustiano Carranza mayor's office, is to encounter again and again abandoned cars, which have become warehouses for junk and garbage or a refuge for cats and rodents. Some have not moved for up to a decade and for the inhabitants, they not only occupy public space, but have also become a source of insecurity, with no useful programs for their destruction.
Pumas had a bitter debut in the Apertura 2026 tournament of the Mexican Women's League after being beaten 5-2 by León in a matchday one match, played yesterday at the Olympic University Stadium.
Laura Galván has a talent for breaking records. His legs, strengthened between dirt streets in a rural community in Guanajuato, seem tireless when it comes to setting records.
Naco, Son., The deployment of medical brigades in the municipality of Naco was intensified yesterday due to concern about the possible consequences of the spill of more than 70 thousand liters of sodium hydrosulfide caused by the derailment of a Ferromex train, belonging to Grupo México; Meanwhile, residents of the Cuauhtémoc ejido demand that clinical studies be carried out on the entire population and that the company be held accountable for the damages caused by the accident.
Only between 32 and 34 percent of Americans approve of President Donald Trump, a new historic low for a United States president in his second government, affected by the stalemate of the war with Iran and the rise in gasoline prices, and which could have repercussions on the November legislative elections, The New York Times reported yesterday.
A few months ago, President Claudia Sheinbaum called to establish a national discussion on the excessive use of screens in our childhood. From that moment on, we began, from the Ministry of Public Education, to promote forums to listen to all voices and work together towards the regulation and conscious use of digital technologies.
On July 28, Dr. Lilia América Albert died. The absence of the most important toxicologist in Mexico and a reference in Latin America hurts the numerous specialists she trained through her fruitful career as a professor and thesis advisor; for the articles and books he published. The Environmental Toxicology Course stands out; Toxic Mexico: Chemical Emergencies, written with Marisa Jacott. The Pollution Dictionary, the only one that exists in our language, and Pollution and its effects on health and the environment. They had to be reissued for public libraries, now that the government gives away books everywhere.
The revenue obtained from the special tax on production and services (IEPS) charged on soft drinks, beer, flavored drinks, tobacco and foods with high caloric density, or junk products, left more than 132 billion pesos in the government's coffers at the end of the first half of the year.
Tel Aviv., The government of the Prime Minister of Israel and fugitive from the International Criminal Court (ICC), Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday rejected any withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, despite the plan imposed by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, until Hamas has completely disarmed.
Trumpeter Luis Gasca, a rock and jazz figure, who played with a host of stars, from Dámaso Pérez Prado to Janis Joplin and Carlos Santana, died yesterday morning at the age of 86, in San Antonio, Texas, where he was on tour. The night before he had participated in a concert with Little Joe, La Mafia and other artists and on a previous date he had played with Richard Bean Suavecito.
Mexican Romina Hinojosa finished the second stage of the Women's Tour de France just shy of the time limit. The Lotto-Intermarché Ladies cyclist entered the finish line in penultimate place (138) in an emotional image holding hands with her partner Diana Boels (139), after the tough 147.9 kilometer route between Aigle and Geneva. The Dutch Lorena Wiebes (SDW) took the victory and retained the yellow jersey of general leader.
In recent days, the rector of UNAM, Leonardo Lomelí, has offered a circus, rope and theater demonstration with the purpose of: 1) washing his hands of the disaster of this year's bachelor's exam; 2) convince that it is fair to repeat the test and 3) hide the company Territorium Life, which the institution hired to perform the test remotely. It is curious that the supplier was not mentioned in the report of the technical commission commissioned to investigate the irregularities. Neither did the rector. It is intriguing that Patricia Dolores Dávila Aranda has resigned from the general secretary without informing whether she was to blame for the fiasco (or scapegoat?) What is clear is that a service contract, whose amount ranges from 40 to 100 million pesos, assigned directly, cannot be signed without the authorization, or at least, the knowledge of the rector. And the contract, right?
Fuel production at the Olmeca refinery of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in June was 141 thousand barrels per day, data that showed a contraction of 2.08 percent compared to May, the company reported.
Sao Paulo., At 80 years old, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared himself “very healthy” yesterday when making his candidacy for a fourth and final term in the October elections official, over which the shadow of Donald Trump looms.
The Senate will open a microsite on its Internet portal to receive observations and proposals on the project to issue the General Law to Prevent, Investigate and Punish the Crime of Femicide, which will operate from August 1 to 9, reported the president of this Chamber. Laura Itzel Castillo.
San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oax., On the outskirts of the Oaxacan capital, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo yesterday laid the first stone of a new IMSS general hospital, which will be part of the so-called Ciudad Salud, which she defined as a project that will be an example for the world, because it will have the most modern services and will provide justice to the state and the people of Oaxaca.
If, as you are reading today's column, Monday, August 3, the idea comes to your mind that what was written, you already knew it a long time ago, do not waste time trying to find the original source of the text that you are carrying today. You are right: in these pages, more than 10 years ago, the “great-grandmother” of today's young Jornada, revealed, for the first time, the story of one of the days in which I have felt most proud and excited. To the astonishment of the Tyrians and Trojans, the tiny rebel army, made up mostly of young people who had never held any weapon in their hands, defeated the army of the dictatorship in Cuba. One of the explanations that I always bring up is very simple, but also a reality: Cubans could no longer tolerate a life, whose daily life was that of a disguised slavery and in which young people had no other inheritance other than being able to repeat the destiny of their elders. These objective and subjective conditions were the fuel that in the past attempts had not been enough to achieve victory, and that on January 1, 1959, the escape of the satrap Fulgencio Batista was celebrated accompanied by an amount of dollars that his entire life would not be enough to waste. So Cuba has two historical celebrations: January 1, which I already described, and July 26, 1953, the date that began the armed uprising. This is the date that everyone recognizes as the Cuban national holiday and this is the one that I want to share with you today.
Moscow. The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobianin, described this Sunday as a “cruel terrorist attack” the explosion of a bomb last night (Saturday) in a central restaurant in the Russian capital, which claimed the lives of five people and left 21 injured, most of them hospitalized and six of them in very serious condition.
Hermosillo, Son., Three days after the 12th anniversary of the largest environmental disaster caused by mining in the country, inhabitants of the Sonora River basin denounced that the pollution caused by Grupo México, a mining consortium owned by businessman Germán Larrea Mota Velasco, remains without comprehensive repair; That is, there has been no environmental remediation, there is an absence of justice, opacity in the negotiations and complicity of authorities with those responsible.
Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) reported that, after almost five months of contingency, the closure of the Krem-1 Well was completed, in the municipality of Las Choapas, Veracruz, as a result of specialized technical work and the deployment of control equipment.
The Attorney General's Office (FGR) will continue to strengthen investigations against fuel theft and other crimes that affect the communities and economy of the country, stated its head, Ernestina Godoy Ramos.
Amid the controversy that has been generated regarding Ariana Grande's health and physical appearance, her representative announced yesterday that the artist will soon "step away from public life a little" after the end of her Eternal Sunshine tour in London on September 1.
Buenos Aires., The Spanish singer Rosalía, on tour in Buenos Aires, apologized face to face to her Argentine fans after the avalanche of criticism she received for a publication on social networks about the Albiceleste's defeat in the World Cup final.
Massive Attack have been banned from entering Singapore after displaying a Palestinian flag at one of their concerts in the Southeast Asian country.
It has been demonstrated in various ways that the tragic avalanche of young Moroccans who last week entered the autonomous Spanish city of Ceuta, located in North Africa, by the tens of thousands, did not constitute an authentic migratory phenomenon. They were persuaded by false news spread on social networks and chat groups that entry into Spanish territory had been free; Thousands of them were taken in trucks – and assisted by police from their country – to the demarcation of that city, where some overcame the border fences and others jumped into the sea to reach it, with a provisional death toll of about 90.
The 68-year-old woman says that the operation that saved her life also changed her way of seeing the world: “I am more sensitive, I value things more.”
The renowned psychoanalyst investigated the construction of plenitude and the situations in which the person constructs within themselves a space capable of housing some type of happiness.
The sum will be paid one time with the August salaries and will reach the active personnel of the Armed Forces, security and different intelligence agencies.
Profitability once again takes center stage in the city of Buenos Aires; the difference between different neighborhoods
The National Meteorological Service warned of possible hail and abundant rain; In the City, the maximum will be 16°C
Tom Holland compares his philosophy of fame to that of surfers: why he prefers not to resist public exposure
Made of neoprene, this accessory fits comfortably around the head and is designed to be used with earplugs.
24 hours of hydration, instant luminosity and a more uniform texture that results in a glass skin effect