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Approximately 90 women, members of different groups that settle on the sidewalk of Alameda Central on Juárez Avenue, will be relocated to premises that are not occupied in stations of the Metro Collective Transportation System (STC), which “could greatly reduce” the presence of street commerce, which overflows on weekends, said the Secretary of Government, César Cravioto Romero.
Lime. The right-wing Keiko Fujimori, who today assumes the presidency of Peru, held a meeting yesterday with the Deputy Secretary of State of the United States, Christopher Landau, to strengthen the bilateral relationship between both countries in security, investments, among other aspects, reported the office of the elected president.
Everything seems to indicate that the attacks, criticism and comments surrounding the arrest and imprisonment of the PAN member Ruffo Appel, the ruffian, have subsided not because the justice apparatus of the 4T, which has many enemies, is completely and totally right, but because the list of accomplices is extensive, very long.
Grupo Carso, Carlos Slim's conglomerate, reported a net profit of 2,964 million pesos between April and June 2026, an increase of 10.6 percent compared to the same period in 2025, driven by the performance of its oil division and Grupo Sanborns.
The paragraph of my article yesterday about sargassum was vague, in which I mentioned President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo's proposal to create a scientific committee to study everything related to said algae.
Mazatlán, Sin., Corn producers from different regions of Sinaloa demonstrated yesterday at the offices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), located in Culiacán, to reproach the delay in the delivery of federal support of 800 pesos per ton of grain obtained, as well as the uncertainty regarding the closure of the agency's windows scheduled for next July 31, despite the fact that thousands of farmers have not yet registered to receive said resource.
In the first semester, the Government of Mexico City recorded income of more than 183 billion pesos, more than 12 percent of what was expected for the period, driven by the collection of property and payroll taxes, among other items.
Between January and May, the development banking sector doubled its profits compared to the same period last year. According to data from the National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV), these institutions obtained profits of 12,266 million pesos.
Tel Aviv., At least three Palestinians were killed and more than 15 were injured yesterday in Israeli drone operations, in which Wael Ladawi, head of Hamas internal security, was killed in central Gaza.
Los Angeles., Forward Javier Chicharito Hernández, the Mexican national team's all-time top scorer with 52 goals, will be a player for Atlético Dallas, a new club in the second division of the United States.
The Neolithic revolution, with its combination of sedentary lifestyle, agriculture, livestock, property configuration (land, livestock, work instruments), initial knowledge of the natural environment and war environments, made slavery possible and useful: for the benefit of some, against others. These processes occurred independently in at least six regions of the planet known as the cradles of civilization: Western Asia, Eastern China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica, the Andes Mountains, and Eastern North America. Regions of sub-Saharan Africa and the Amazon are usually added. The Neolithic occurred in a vast arc of time: beginning around 8,500 years before our era in eastern Asia; 7,500 in eastern China; 3,500 in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Slaves were produced everywhere. Thus, some men found a way to appropriate the work of other men, in increasingly larger and more complex societies. No region taught another to appropriate the work of others: they all discovered it on their own, because it arose from the same living conditions.
Madrid. Southern Europe, especially France, Spain and Portugal, are facing a wave of fires that experts already define as “the most virulent in history” due to their destructive force, the speed at which they advance and the difficulty of controlling them; amid the drought caused by hotter and drier summers on the continent associated with climate change.
Writing about Elena is, deep down, writing about time, about the life that passes while we talk about it and about this Mexico City that changes its face every morning without ever losing its scars. There is in his figure something of that 20th century that no longer exists except in press archives, in cassette recordings and in the obstinate memory of those who refuse to be forgotten.
San José., Nicaragua postponed until September the approval of a constitutional reform to exclude opposition parties from the elections, a measure that provoked widespread international rejection, announced yesterday the Nicaraguan co-president, Rosario Murillo.
The Government of Mexico City will once again “build” the sculptures of Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara and they will be installed in a different part of the capital, after on July 16 of last year, the mayor of Cuauhtémoc, Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, ordered the removal of the life-size figures that were sitting on a bench, located in the garden of the Plaza de San Carlos, in the Tabacalera neighborhood.
More than four decades ago Carlos Converso premiered a show that he keeps in his repertoire. After more than 1,600 performances, he still feels the tickling in the pit of his stomach before going on stage. “It is a dialogue between the old puppets and the equally old puppeteer.”
The Lord of the Rings trilogy grossed billions at the box office, but actor Sean Astin admitted his salary was so “low” that he had to sell his house.
The Mexican soccer team secured its ticket to the quarterfinals of the Concacaf U-20 Championship, after winning 2-0 yesterday against Costa Rica in the match that was played at the Cuauhtémoc stadium in Puebla.
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Kenia López Rabadán, recognized the decision of the rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas, to integrate a technical commission of specialists and order an exhaustive review of the admission process to the degree due to the alleged anomalies recorded.
Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco Álvarez agreed yesterday with his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, to insist on the Franco-Mexican initiative so that the five permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) refrain from exercising their right of veto in cases of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other mass atrocities.
When she was 22 years old or younger, Braulia Velázquez, a healer from the Zapotec Sierra Sur of Oaxaca, received through a dream the gift to heal with sacred plants and mushrooms that in Zapotec are known as mbey do or mbey sant, a variety from the region. The story of her life is the subject of Braulia, a short film by her great-niece, Diana Martínez García (Santa María Huatulco, 1995).
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) and the Attorney General's Office of the Republic (FGR) yesterday began a training session for public servants from both institutions, which seeks to strengthen their knowledge in the procurement and administration of justice, with emphasis on criminal sciences and criminal policy.
In view of the reopening of Mexican livestock exports to the United States starting in the second half of August, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo stated that there are still some actions to be taken that will be jointly adopted by the Mexican and American authorities in the sector. However, what has been achieved so far "speaks of good coordination and collaboration between both governments. The work that was done was very technical to prevent the spread of the screwworm that damages livestock so much."
The National Electoral Institute (INE) reported that the production and distribution process of the new model of the voting credential continues to advance favorably and steadily, which has made it possible to reduce the delivery period of the card to applicants from 20 to 15 days.
The government of Oaxaca, headed by the Morenista Salomón Jara Cruz, was in charge, during its morning conferences, of seeking to discredit the work of journalist Alejandro Leyva Aguilar, said Carlos Alberto, son of the Oaxacan communicator, murdered last Wednesday in San Pablo Etla.
From failure to failure and from ridicule to ridicule, who claims to be the "president" of Argentina (the grotesque Javier Milei) without any proof blames third parties for financing and carrying out "an anti-Argentina campaign", when in fact he himself is the main anti-Argentine and confirms it every day by handing over sovereignty (political, economic, financial and territorial) and national security to the United States and Israel and declaring himself, openly, at the service of Donald Trump and the genocidal Benjamin Netanyahu.
The federal government officially declared a Circular Economy Development Pole for Wellbeing (Podecobi) in the municipality of Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, with the purpose of attracting investments from companies to transform sargassum, plastics and construction waste into raw materials through tax incentives and support from the Federation.
By installing a technical commission to review what happened with the admission exams now suspended due to allegations of cheating irregularities, the rectorship of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), headed by Leonardo Lomelí, gains time that is running out (there are only a few days left until the start of classes) and takes cover behind that committee to make decisions that, as they appear, would aim to be extremely controversial in any sense.
“Recognizing a journalist, journalists has a double merit that we must honor with our clean, punctual and truthful writings every day,” said Francisco Alejandro Leyva Aguilar in November 2024, upon receiving the Ricardo Flores Magón Mexico Journalism Award, in the Digital Column category.
Washington and New York. The 11.1 million Mexican immigrants in the United States are the largest immigrant group in this country: they represent 22 percent of the total foreign-born population and 40 percent of all undocumented immigrants, according to a new demographic profile prepared by the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute (MPI).
Beijing. China's Ministry of Commerce urged the United States to correct its wrong practices and eliminate unilateral tariff measures it imposed under the pretext of so-called "forced labor."
The appeals and amparo trials brought by property invaders have caused the recovery processes to last up to five years. In this context, according to estimates by the Salma Sosa y Abogados firm, restitution requests have increased 60 percent so far in 2026, with Benito Juárez and Gustavo A. Madero as the mayors with the most cases.
The Mexican women's rugby 7 team won the silver medal at the 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games, after losing in the final 27-0 to Colombia, which won the golden metal. The bronze went to Jamaica after beating the Dominican Republic 24-7.
Bogota. President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella intends to change Colombian foreign policy with the closure of more than a dozen embassies, including those of Cuba and Nicaragua, with whom he will break relations because he considers them “tyrannies.”
The rulings of the Judicial Branch of the Federation that have allowed increasing the validity of patents for innovative medicines that had already expired did not take into account the national pharmaceutical laboratories, third parties interested in the cases because they have health records of generics of the same products, said Ricardo del Olmo, executive director of the National Association of Medicine Manufacturers (Anafam).
The United States Department of Justice left open the possibility of reviewing the extradition requests presented by the Mexican government that remain unanswered, among them that of the former governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, required by the Attorney General's Office (FGR) for alleged crimes of organized crime and operations with resources of illicit origin.
Federal forces arrested Ricardo El Tío Ozuna Tirado in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, an alleged financial operator and one of the main leaders of a criminal cell linked to the Los Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa cartel. In the operation, reported yesterday by the security cabinet, five possible members of the same group were also captured: Alejandro Coronel Reyes Jr., of American nationality, as well as the Mexicans Marcelo Eduardo Mendoza Ramírez, José Manuel Félix Covarrubias, Jano Alonso López Ruiz and José Manuel Sosa Carrasco. In addition, the authorities seized two firearms, chargers, cartridges, approximately 100 thousand dollars in cash, cell phones, computers, two vehicles and two properties. El Tío, 49 years old, acted in the municipality of La Cruz de Elota, Sinaloa. Intelligence work led to the location of two properties used for the commission of crimes, so they implemented a security fence that resulted in the arrest of six people. This action was led by elements of the Navy, Security and Citizen Protection and the Attorney General's Office of the Republic, in coordination with the National Intelligence Center.
The Attorney General's Office (FGR) provided sufficient evidence for a federal judge to link four people related to the Sinaloa cartel to trial for their possible participation in the aggravated kidnapping of migrants in the entity and for organized crime.
Washington. The airstrikes ordered by US President Donald Trump against vessels that he has accused, without evidence, of transporting drugs, during Operation Southern Spear and in which at least 221 people have been murdered, did not reduce the flow of cocaine to the United States, as traffickers adapted their routes and methods, Pentagon and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials admitted, The Washington Post reported yesterday.
Seattle. Police said yesterday that there were at least three suspects involved in a shooting at a food fair near Seattle's Space Needle last night, including one who was among those killed in the incident.
Big Tech's relentless drive to expand data center construction to every continent has sparked a growing mass resistance movement – from the United States to Ireland, and from Chile to Malaysia – with grassroots communities protesting depleted water resources, skyrocketing utility bills, air and noise pollution, and environmental destruction.
Four big news stories stood out in the country in 1937: The creation of what we know today as the Secretariat of National Defense. The nationalization of the Mexican Railway System, led by President Lázaro Cárdenas. The arrival of León Trotsky and his wife Natalia to Mexican exile, and the opening of the Los Angeles Hall on July 29 by Don Miguel Nieto Alcántara. Inspired by the Moulin de la Galette in Paris, the Los Ángeles Hall became the temple of Mexican dancing over other spaces in the same field due to the excellent musical programming and the plurality of attendees: pachucos, workers, taxi drivers, merchants, office workers, artists and intellectuals.
In trade terms, Mexico faces a “battle” every week with the United States, as President Donald Trump's administration constantly announces tariffs that impede free trade, said the head of the Ministry of Economy (SE), Marcelo Ebrard, such as the 10 percent levies that Washington announced last week on imports from countries that, in his opinion, do not do enough to combat forced labor. The measure applies to 60 countries, including Mexico.
Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday expressed support for his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in his “opposition to external interference,” Chinese state press reported.
The accordion has a long history in schools, from elementary to college. The scandal these days is that it was used in the form of artificial intelligence (AI) in the 2026 UNAM bachelor's admission exam. Years ago, the accordion was a piece of paper or notes written in the palm of the hand with small letters. Rector Leonardo Lomelí installed a technical commission to review the procedure. “We cannot allow access to the University to be affected by those applicants who could have had some type of help, to the detriment of the applicants who studied, prepared and sought the opportunity to access higher education in the entrance exam,” he expressed.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, assured that his trade policy and the imposition of tariffs on automotive imports are already causing the return of production lines from Mexico to US territory, stating that various automakers are relocating their operations to avoid paying taxes.
Stephen Miller, deputy director of the White House Public Policy Cabinet, stated yesterday that the drug cartels that “control the territory” of Mexico are the reason why “the judicial, political and legal system” does not work in this country.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs asserted that Democratic President Barack Obama (2009-2017) ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. “So that started in 2011,” he said, interviewed by conservative Tucker Carlson. To the question of “why would Obama want to overthrow Al Assad?”, Sachs responded: “because Israel has directed US foreign policy in the Middle East for 30 years,” he points out in an excerpt from the interview published by Turkish journalist Asfshin Rattansi in alleged Iranian threats against their security, Israeli media reported. The White House announced that President Donald Trump will discuss with the prime minister “the conflict with Iran, progress in the trilateral framework on Lebanon and the expansion of the Abraham Accords.” Likewise, Netanyahu will attend the memorial service in honor of the late pro-Israel Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, Al Jazeera reported.
The Arbitration Tribunal of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) dismissed almost all of the claims that Vulcan Minerals had against Mexico since 2018 under NAFTA, and only granted it the right to compensation that the company itself described as insignificant.
The former governor of Baja California, Ernesto Ruffo Appel, is not persecuted for his ideals or political ties; He is being investigated, along with seven co-accused, for his probable participation in the crimes of railroad huachicol and organized crime, stated the Attorney General's Office (FGR).