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Washington. President Donald Trump assured yesterday that he is holding “very cordial” talks with Iran, and affirmed that the US naval blockade prevents the entry of ships into the Islamic republic. Hours earlier, Tehran rejected that there are ongoing talks with Washington and stressed that it controls the Strait of Hormuz.
Veracruz, Ver., Residents of the La Guadalupe-El Jabón community, municipality of Las Choapas, blocked an access road to the Krem-1 well, to demand the presence of personnel from Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and other authorities in order to start a dialogue table and find a solution to put out the fire that has been going on for more than four months.
Zacatecas, Zac., The state government headed by Morenista David Monreal Ávila maintains the General Militarized Baccalaureate (BGM) in operation, created in 2019 by the then governor Alejandro Tello Cristerna, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which offers military-style academic instruction not permitted by law in our country.
Beijing. China yesterday urged the United States to stop smearing Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies and threatening them with sanctions, pointing out that such actions lack factual and legal basis and constitute a typical form of hegemony in the field of AI.
The second district court in commercial bankruptcy matters rejected the bases for the auction of Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) and its subsidiary Minera del Norte (Minosa), detecting that they included unauthorized processes, such as the possible "forced sale" of assets belonging to secured creditors and assets separately, which contravenes the original criterion that the companies be sold as a single productive unit.
New York. Singer Carly Simon has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and recently received treatment for skin cancer, she shared in a statement provided to The Associated Press.
Looking ahead to the 2027 elections, electoral advisor Uuc-kib Espadas proposed yesterday that the vote to elect federal deputies be carried out through the use of two ballots: one for the candidates with a relative majority and another for those with proportional representation, since doing so on a single ballot, as is currently the case, violates the right to free suffrage.
Why does a left-wing party defend free trade? Ideologies of any political sign change over time. What is considered appropriate at one time is left aside at another time. This is precisely the case of free trade, which in socialist countries was considered unacceptable until the 70s of the last century.
Referee Slavko Vincic announced his retirement from football, after directing the 2026 World Cup final between Spain and Argentina, where he received harsh criticism for tolerating the rough play of the Albiceleste. In total, the Slovenian refereed four games in the tournament, including Mexico's victory (2-0) over Ecuador in the round of 16, in which he showed the red card to Ecuadorian Piero Hincapié for covering his mouth while speaking with Santiago Giménez.
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is mired in an institutional crisis due to the failure of its first attempt to apply the bachelor's admission exam virtually. The highest educational institution paid more than 100 million pesos in a direct award contract to the company Territorium Life, in order for it to apply and monitor 158,413 exams with at least 20 security mechanisms that were to prevent cheating and prevent the leakage of the reagents. The locks included facial and voice recognition, continuous identity validation, real-time monitoring with AI, blocking external applications, disabling copy and paste functions and preventing screen projection on external devices.
Former United States ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar responded to President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, after the president accused him of “lying” about the participation of US agents in the operation to arrest Ismael El Mayo Zambada.
When inaugurating the Casa de las 3 Rs Muyuguarda, which is located in DIF facilities in Xochimilco, the head of the local Executive, Clara Brugada Molina, announced that the possibility that a hospital can be built on that property - which is owned by the capital's government - will be analyzed, in addition to the authorization of a new Cablebús line.
After 10 days of indefinite work stoppage, yesterday the Single Workers Union of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (Suntuas) lifted the movement, so the university facilities were reopened. However, the union maintained that the demand persists for the institution's financial crisis to be fundamentally resolved.
Noting that a “black campaign, with a lot of money” persists to try to discredit her government and that of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo showed that the former United States ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, admitted in an interview on July 3 that he has no evidence of links between the former Mexican president and the Sinaloa cartel.
Ciudad Victoria, Tamps., A woman infected with cattle screwworm died in a hospital in this capital, although local health authorities considered that the death was not the result of a myiasis - a parasitic infection caused by fly larvae - since the patient suffered from hypertension, cancer and diabetes, and died due to a myocardial infarction.
Guadalajara, Jal., The Association for the Future of Pensioners of the Pension Institute of the State of Jalisco (Ipejal) presented a proposal to reform the Ipejal Law to avoid the decapitalization of the retirement fund of the nearly 50 thousand current retirees, which could occur between 2030 and 2031.
“Social control” by Francisco Javier Garía Ramírez (Edit. Cescijuc, Mexico) narrates the history of the states and their control over the population, until reaching contemporary Mexico. Financial controls and the recommendation of social changes show national states as pawns of international capital. Partisan changes are a fantasy. The state becomes a pawn in non-profit activities; the rest goes to private initiative. An interesting book that reinforces its thesis in university education.
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are the two players with the greatest media impact in the recent two decades. The difference is that La Pulga has won a World Cup, his team has more followers and is a magnet to enter the markets of China and India, still far from football culture. This potential also raises suspicions of an alleged interest to benefit the Albiceleste in the 2026 World Cup.
The capital's Congress approved an appeal to the mayor of Miguel Hidalgo, Mauricio Tabe Echartea, in response to the negligence in responding to a sewage leak at the Caneguin Child Development Center (Cendi), in the Argentina Antigua neighborhood.
Mexico and Switzerland agreed to consolidate trade ties between both countries – which in 2025 reached an exchange of 4,272 million dollars – by modernizing the agreement that governs this relationship.
The alleged participation of the FBI in the transfer of Ismael El Mayo Zambada to US territory divided opinions among the political forces in the Permanent Commission, because while Morena warned that it implies a “loss of trust” from Mexico towards Washington, the opposition considered that the most important thing is that the alleged relationship of the cherries with drug trafficking would be confirmed.
The upper chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) endorsed the management period of the Morena presidency, now headed by Ariadna Montiel, and the Secretary of Finance, Óscar del Cueto, among other elements approved at the party congress held in May.
Caracas. The inhabitants of the areas devastated by the double earthquake of June 24 will work on the reconstruction of their homes, reported the head of the Venezuela Renace Plan, Jacqueline Faria, during an inspection in the state of La Guaira.
Without revealing his identity or explaining why he was handed over to the United States, Ernestina Godoy Ramos, head of the Attorney General's Office (FGR), reported that the pilot who operated the aircraft in which Ismael El Mayo Zambada was transferred to that country was deported to Mexican territory and later returned to that country.
Wimbledon. The German tennis player Alexander Zverev and the British Arthur Fery starred in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, the third Grand Slam of the season, after sealing their place in the men's semifinals, while in the women's team the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk and the Czech Linda Noskova also advanced to the penultimate round.
The death of Mexican Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, shot dead last Tuesday by an agent of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) in Houston, Texas, is not an isolated tragedy; The tactics of this agency “are putting public safety at risk, while deaths in its custody continue to increase,” warned the Americas Alliance, which brings together various organizations that accompany undocumented immigrants in that country.
While in Mexico we are fighting floods due to overflowing rivers and flooded towns with their effects on people, houses and roads, in Europe they are literally dying from the heat. The latest issue of the prestigious scientific journal Nature, published on June 26, is dedicated to analyzing the heat wave in Europe that has killed hundreds of people. The question asked is whether it is an isolated phenomenon or if it is here to stay. That is, it is transitory or a lasting change. For this, a series of evidence is presented that clearly confirms that it is a lasting change. Different institutions in various countries reach the same conclusion. However, there are also researchers who consider that it can be reversible, since it depends on the confluence of various phenomena.
The Cuban painter, sculptor and engraver Luis Miguel Valdés (Pinar del Río, 1949) died last Monday in Cuernavaca, Morelos. This was reported by the Cuban embassy in Mexico through its social networks.
The Mexican Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Camic) pointed out that the 2030 World Cup in Morocco, Spain and Portugal represents an opportunity for Mexican companies to explore that market beyond the sporting event, in sectors such as infrastructure, mobility, hospitality, technology, renewable energy and manufacturing.
Mexico's participation as host of the Soccer World Cup has come to an end. For more than three weeks, our country had institutional efforts to host the football festival in questionable conditions, which caused joy among many people, but which never meant a respite for thousands and thousands of victims of violence.
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) rejected the appeal filed by the former director of the Mexico City Housing Institute (Invi) Raymundo Collins Flores, with which he sought to annul the sentence that disqualified him for 10 years and imposed a fine of 42 million pesos for abuse of functions by granting undue tax benefits.
Yesterday's electrical storm in Mexico City, accompanied by widespread, intense and specific rains, which activated the red alert in the Álvaro Obregón, Azcapotzalco, Benito Juárez and Gustavo A. Madero districts, left severe flooding in avenues and streets of those municipalities, and minutes before 10 p.m. five stations on Metro line 5 were out of service: Misterios, Valle Gómez, Consulado, Eduardo Molina and Aragón.
With the aim of expanding the narrative about the art of our country between 1890 and 1950, as well as showing proposals less perceived since then, including work created in the entities of the Republic, the room Art and visuality in modern Mexico: Munal Siglo XX collection was inaugurated yesterday.
Mexico led the cut to the growth estimates of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), only followed by Canada. The organization adjusted its forecasts for the global economy for this year and next, but in accumulated terms, the global outlook did not see a decline. In fact, the data show that the United States' main trading partners are the most affected in their expansion prospects for this biennium.
The new rules of the Bank of Mexico (BdeM) open the door to 4.4 million small businesses to the digital payments ecosystem, experts consider. The changes aim for grocery stores, bakeries, tortillerias, beauty salons and hardware stores to stop operating outside the digital economy and gradually integrate into the use of electronic transfers and payments.
Mexico should not be subordinated in its commercial relationship with the United States, said Octavio de la Torre de Stéffano, president of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco-Servytur), who called for taking care of this link between both nations.
Lausanne. The London-based sports and human rights NGO FairSquare indicated that it will file a complaint with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for “the repeated violation of the rules of political neutrality” by the head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, requested that a sanction be lifted against the player Folarin Balogun.
Colima, Col., Fishermen, salt farmers, scientists, farmers and activists demonstrated yesterday at the offices of the Ministry of the Interior, in the historic center of the capital, against the project to expand the port of Manzanillo in the Cuyutlán lagoon. With banners and blankets that read: “Save the lagoon!”, the protesters accused the authorities of the Administration of the National Port System (Asipona) of manipulating to obtain the environmental impact statement from the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. Among the arguments against the project, they exposed the destruction of dozens of hectares of mangrove, the entry of seawater into the lake that will cause “ecocide” and the impediment to continue producing salt and carry out fishing activities in the area. The plan presented by Asipona on June 25 contemplates increasing the port area to 1,880 hectares in the lagoon area, with an investment of more than 13,539 million pesos. The protesters demanded a dialogue with Javier Pinto, head of the delegation of the Ministry of the Interior in Colima, who accepted a meeting for this Thursday.
The deaths of 06/30/26 in the football celebrations are the responsibility of the state, due to its role as guarantor in a preventable collapse. The requirement of prevention and reparation of the public administration is in the Federal Constitution (Arts. 109 and 113), Federal Law of State Patrimonial Responsibility (right to compensation for irregular administrative activity), Law of Comprehensive Risk Management and Civil Protection of Mexico City (obliges authorities to plan, prevent and mitigate risks in public spaces) and the American Convention on Human Rights (articles 4 and 5) which indicates the state's omission to adopt measures reasonable measures to mitigate a real and immediate risk, such as a direct violation of their responsibilities to protect the rights to life and personal integrity.
Ernestina Godoy Ramos, head of the Attorney General's Office (FGR), explained yesterday that in the transfer of Ismael El Mayo Zambada to the United States "we are facing three serious situations: a series of violations of Mexican and international law, an agreement outside the law, as well as a lie by a US diplomat (former ambassador Ken Salazar)," which represents a transgression of the cornerstone principle of good faith in diplomatic relations provided for in international treaties.
The Government Secretariat estimated that at least 6 million people have taken to the streets of Mexico City, from June 11 to date, to watch one of the 104 World Cup Soccer matches for free on the screens that were installed in various parts of the capital.
The Attorney General's Office (FGR) and the security cabinet discovered a network of fuel smugglers from the United States to national territory that uses railroads to transport hydrocarbons, and the customs office in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, as the main route to enter Mexico.
The purchase of 56 thousand pesos chandeliers to decorate Metro facilities contrasts with the working conditions faced by cleaning workers, who receive salaries of only 1,800 pesos a fortnight, constant delays in their payments and must purchase with their own resources part of the supplies they use daily.
US Senator Bernie Sanders, who defines himself as a democratic socialist, asserted yesterday that "restarting his reckless war with Iran will not make the United States stronger. It will cost more lives and will be a greater waste of taxpayers' money." In a post on
Cairo. Two children, aged 10 and 6, were killed yesterday in air attacks by Israel on Gaza, which continues its offensive despite the ceasefire, while the Peace Board promoted by the US president, Donald Trump, studies establishing a “humanitarian zone” in the south of the territory that would host tens of thousands of Palestinians, subject to prior control.
In the heart of the Mayan jungle, one of the largest areas of tropical forest in America, the K'u' Áayin project promotes jaguar conservation through camera trap monitoring, scientific research and the participation of local communities.