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The stock markets of the world were uniform with falls, from Asia, Europe and even America, but it was in the latter continent where the losses slowed; while oil became more expensive and the dollar strengthened yesterday, after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said that the provisional ceasefire with Iran ended, increasing the possibility that peace negotiations will fail and clashes between both countries will resume.
Given that the Mexican government documented that the capture of Ismael El Mayo Zambada was a kidnapping, that is, it occurred through the commission of a crime, the judge in charge of conducting his case in the United States should dismiss his case, since his judicial procedures should not admit that prosecutors present arrests or evidence obtained illegally and even less so if these were obtained by committing a kidnapping, in addition to violating the sovereignty and laws of a foreign country, extradition treaties between countries, procedures laws for the prosecution of transnational crimes and international treaties in this regard, arrogating to themselves an extraterritorial right that no one has given them. Let us remember the Álvarez Machaín case.
Chilpancingo, Gro., Members of the criminal organization The Michoacan family attacked the Guajes de Ayala ejido, municipality of Coyuca de Catalán, in the Tierra Caliente region of Guerrero, with bullets and explosives launched from drones, which forced the inhabitants of the place to take refuge in a clinic in the El Pescado community, in the same district.
The citizen's bill to allow people with serious incurable illnesses and intolerable physical suffering to receive medical assistance in dying in Mexico City has collected more than 4,000 signatures a month after the collection began to present it to the capital's Congress.
A prolonged period in the annual reviews of the Agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC) would aggravate the uncertainty that exists among investors in the business sector, the rating agency Fitch warned this morning.
Moscow. The exhausting remote war that Russia and Ukraine wage with missiles and drones, apart from the bloody assaults that are still carried out to gain meters of enemy territory, had its umpteenth episode early yesterday morning.
What can change in 105 years? For China, 105 years have transformed the destiny of an ancient nation and the lives of hundreds of millions of people. From rising in the face of the danger of the country's survival to leading the vigorous advance of Chinese modernization today, the path traveled by the Communist Party of China (CPC) has also been the path by which the Chinese people managed to rise in the face of adversity and gain control of their own destiny.
Coordinated intelligence actions implemented by the National Customs Association of Mexico (ANAM) and personnel from the Secretariat of National Defense made it possible to identify and secure contraband of 2 kilos and 600 grams of ketamine that were transported in the double bottom of a suitcase from Bogotá, Colombia.
Federal authorities dismantled a criminal cell of the Los Chapitos faction in Culiacán, Sinaloa, and when repelling an armed attack, Cristhian Guadalupe N, El Texas, alleged plaza boss of that criminal group in the capital of Sinaloa, was killed.
Quito. The mayor of Guayaquil, Aquiles Álvarez, was urgently transferred yesterday from the Encuentro prison to a private clinic to undergo medical examinations, after several days of suffering from problems with his gallbladder, but he had no immediate response from the authorities of Daniel Noboa's government.
After the president of the United States, Donald Trump, declared that the ceasefire with Iran has ended, President Claudia Sheinbaum expressed that it is “a shame, not only because of what a war means, (in which) we will never agree, but also because of the impact it has on fuel prices in the world.”
The Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC), in a period of five years, allocated 6 million 403 thousand 889 pesos of its budget for the payment of economic compensation to victims of human rights violations, to address the recommendations made by the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City (CDHCM).
Isaac del Toro maintained eighth overall position in the Tour de France after finishing in 32nd place on stage five of the tour.
The National Network All Rights for All, All and All (Red TDT), which brings together 88 civil organizations, issued an urgent action in response to the irregularities it has documented in the criminal process following the murder of Marcos Aguilar Rojas and the attempted murder against Gabriel Aguilar Rojas – defenders of the territory of the Tepehuana and Wixárika community of San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, Jalisco – on November 26, 2025. It reported that the Last July 6, in the Control, Prosecution and Execution Court of the tenth judicial district of said entity, an incidental hearing was scheduled “to resolve the incompetence due to prohibition and the intended modification of the precautionary measure of informal preventive detention” of the accused Manuel N. However, the accused's lawyers did not appear. He indicated that in the face of this “flagrant” delaying tactic, which seeks to physically, economically and emotionally wear down the indigenous victims; The judge, far from safeguarding the right to prompt and expeditious justice, acted with total condescension towards the defense - which he did not sanction - and limited himself to notifying the victims and setting a new hearing for today.
Consumption does not stop during the 2026 FIFA World Cup: Openbank reports a greater number of transactions in restaurants and drinks, while Cinépolis announced this Wednesday that the attendance of fans to watch the games on the big screen so far in the tournament is the equivalent of filling the Mexico City stadium (formerly Azteca) seven times.
Mexican pitcher Luis Enrique Gastélum made his debut in the Major Leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals, who beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1, in the game that was played yesterday at Busch Stadium.
On the instructions of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) relaxed the five-year reserve on requests for provisional detention for extradition purposes against the licensed governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, and nine officials and former officials of that entity, although, “due to its nature,” the measure does not apply to diplomatic notes in judicial files.
The Permanent Commission of the Congress of the Union congratulated the national soccer team for the “courage, dedication, great talent and exceptional sense of team unity” with which it represented the country in the international soccer tournament that is about to end.
There is nothing more melancholic than an empty stadium. After the last fan leaves, it is hard to believe that hours before that same place was capable of making the earth shake. Without activity and without public, it is nothing more than a shell. It looks like that billiard table without balls in Gabriel García Márquez's story, In this town there are no thieves, where Dámaso steals them and condemns an entire town to monotony by depriving it of its only entertainment.
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) will review whether it maintains the presidential veto that, since 1984, prevents the definitive export from Mexico of the works of Frida Kahlo Calderón, even if they belong to individuals.
After being crowned champion in the Clausura 2026 tournament, Cruz Azul officially announced yesterday the continuity of Joel Huiqui as coach of the first team for the following season, where the objective, indicated the helmsman, "will not only be the two-time championship" in the Liga Mx, but also the titles of the other competitions that will be played next semester.
The freedom of Gilda Susana Lozoya Austin and whether she must face trial in prison for the crime of operations with resources of illicit origin, in the hypothesis of bringing money from abroad into the country and hiding its origin, will be defined today. Judge Nora Iliana García Peralta will hold the hearing to change precautionary measures, after the Attorney General's Office (FGR) requested it. This procedure is part of the continuation of the hearing in which his connection to the process was decreed and which lasted more than 14 hours on Tuesday.
The number of creditors of Tv Azteca could preliminarily reach 600, according to the public version of the resolution of July 6 with which the first district court in matters of commercial bankruptcy of Mexico City declared the commercial bankruptcy requested by the Grupo Salinas company to be admissible.
The review of the Free Trade Agreement (T-MEC) has entered a key stage, with the pending issues in the negotiation with the United States being reduced from 54 to 14, stated in a report from the Ministry of Economy sent to the Permanent Commission of the Congress of the Union.
Hermosillo, Sonora, Almost 12 years after the spill of 40 thousand cubic meters of acidulated copper sulfate in the Bacanuchi and Sonora rivers, considered the worst environmental disaster in the history of mining in the country, the government of Sonora announced the start of construction of the IMSS-Bienestar Hospital in the municipality of Ures, one of the main demands of the affected communities since 2014 and an unfulfilled promise for more than a decade.
So that there is no doubt, given that last Tuesday morning the conditional was officially used (the American government “would have participated”), the Attorney General of the Republic, Ernestina Godoy, says it in all its letters: in the kidnapping of Ismael El Mayo Zambada “three serious situations were committed: violations of Mexican and international law, the establishment of an agreement outside the law and the lie of a US diplomat” (former ambassador Ken Salazar)”, which It is the same as transgressing the fundamental principle of good faith in diplomatic relations, provided for in various international treaties.
The price of a barrel of oil rose 5 percent after the exchange of aggression between the Iranians and the Americans that led both parties to denounce violations of the ceasefire memorandum of understanding.
Havana. The Cuban Electrical Union managed to restore the national grid after the collapse last Monday, although it warned that, due to the low level of generation due to lack of fuel, the prolonged blackouts will continue on the island. Meanwhile, the Foreign Minister of the Antillean nation, Bruno Rodríguez, once again thanked the 136 countries that voted in favor of the session of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization "to demand the end of the blockade, the energy fence, the secondary sanctions and the threats of military aggression by the United States" against the Caribbean State.
Chimalhuacán, Méx., Laura Velázquez Florencio, activist fighting against feminicide and promoter of freedom of public space, died after being run over on the Circuito Exterior Mexiquense concession highway, in the territory of Ecatepec.
The family of Mexican Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 years old, 35 of them as a construction worker in Houston, Texas, had to see him die lying on the pavement, unable to approach him, surrounded in an impassable manner by agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), one of whom had murdered him.
After the electoral results in Peru, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras and Bolivia, we can affirm that the national bourgeoisies are a chimera. If we add Argentina, Paraguay, El Salvador and Panama, the picture is bleak. The countries mentioned have in common reactionary governments that are the product of the union of the global right under the umbrella of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where the Atlas Network stands out, a think tank that unifies ideological production in its cultural war against democracy and popular alternatives.
While the banking system in Latin America continues to expand, Mexico strengthens its position as one of its protagonists: last year it generated almost a fifth of the sector's profits on a regional scale, managed around 15 percent of its assets and is part of the small group of countries where the number of participants continues to increase, according to information from the Latin American Federation of Banks (Felaban).
In June, 61 thousand new formal jobs were created in the country, which were concentrated in the transportation and communications sectors, the extractive industry, social and community services, as well as in construction, while the agricultural sector maintains a negative annual variation of minus 3.9 percent.
Without expressly referring to the legal and administrative situation of Tv Azteca because it is immersed in a legal process, president Claudia Sheinbaum stated that "when any company declares bankruptcy it is because it does not have the capacity to pay its creditors. A judge comes in and begins a negotiation process with its creditors, more or less, to put it very simply," she said.
A control judge granted the change of precautionary measure to two former public servants of the Attorney General's Office (FGJ) accused of the theft of 11 million pesos from the institution's Evidence Warehouse in 2025, for which they were immediately released.
Geneva. Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out mass killings, kidnappings of women and girls, as well as gang rape and forced food deprivation in a city they occupied last year as part of an intentional policy amounting to genocide, the United Nations (UN) said yesterday.
César Brodermann transforms migration into a sensory experience in his multidisciplinary work Permanent Transfer, a piece in which he investigates how to break physical and mental borders “to reach a place perhaps a little freer, closer to our identity and thanks to that perhaps create a more empathetic space in collectivism,” indicated the creator.
Ella Laboriel was a go-go mulatto. A Garifuna soul who decided to be a chilanga who dared to be a rock and roll artist in Mexico, at a time when women had no place in that world, dominated by men and also by skin issues.
With the elected president of Peru, Keiko Fujimori, “I have not had communication, we are going to wait, remember that they broke off relations with us because we stated that the head of the Executive of that country (Pedro) Castillo is illegally imprisoned,” clarified President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
Milan. While academic research and international organizations warn about a global crisis of forced displacement caused by wars, persecutions, violence, poverty, political collapses and climate change, in the United States and Europe, immigration has become one of the main targets of the extreme right and sovereigntist discourses. Faced with this narrative, the exhibition Out of Place, organized by the Imago Mundi Foundation and presented at the Luigi Rovati Foundation in Milan, invites us to look at the phenomenon from those who experience it: refugee artists who inhabit or have inhabited 18 of the largest exile camps and settlements in the world.
In Peru and Colombia the presidential winners are from the right. The same thing happened in Costa, Ecuador, Honduras, Bolivia and Chile. The defeated left-wing parties, among other things, justify it with Trump's influence, without considering whether the arrogance of left-wing politicians had anything to do with the defeat.
The second district court in matters of commercial bankruptcy requested the Federal Institute of Public Defender to appoint a legal advisor to collectively represent the workers of Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) and its subsidiary Minera del Norte (Minosa), as part of the companies' bankruptcy process.
The Mexican ambassador to the United States, Roberto Lazzeri, stated yesterday that the bilateral relationship must be governed by the principle of reciprocity, understood as "a partnership between equals, in which each party keeps its word and offers certainty to the other." He maintained that Mexico “responds with facts and results, and expects the same in return.”
With the National Bean Plan, more than 18 thousand producers in Durango and Zacatecas will receive 5,300 tons of certified seed for the spring-summer 2026 agricultural cycle, reported the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader).
Rafael Márquez will officially replace Javier Aguirre as technical director of the Mexican team heading to the 2030 World Cup, which will be held in Spain, Morocco and Portugal, the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) confirmed in a statement. With this decision, the FMF gave continuity to the Vasco process, which began on August 1, 2024, and to whom El Kaiser was technical assistant, in search of reaching the quarterfinal stage in the World Cup, which was last reached in 1986.
The defense of the families of the 43 Ayotzinapa normal students who disappeared in 2014 called on the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) to declare inadmissible the four appeals for extraordinary review, which it decided to attract last Tuesday, through which it will review, in an exceptional manner, the ruling of a collegiate court that ordered the creation of a commission of investigation into the case.
If there are favorable conditions for Mexico, the federal government could support the proposal of the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) to promote the 2029 Club World Cup to be held in our country, said President Claudia Sheinbaum, who added: “there is also the Women's World Cup” of soccer. He announced that when there are consolidated figures on the number of foreign visitors who came to Mexico during the World Cup, the Ministry of Tourism will present a report to reinforce the visit of foreigners to our country.
For some time now, governments around the world, with different emphases and social significance, seem to feel obliged to promote and finance sports, entertainment and entertainment, to the detriment of priority expenditures.
Trade between Mexico and the United States reaches 839 billion dollars, which reflects the level of bilateral integration that makes our country the main buyer of the northern neighbor, said President Claudia Sheinbaum. "Our economy is so integrated that even with the tariffs we continue to export more to the United States and we are buying more from them. I have told President Donald Trump that we have stopped buying from Asia."
Hundreds of football fans in Gaza watched the World Cup round of 16 match between Argentina and Egypt amid the ruins of buildings in Nuseirat.