Spanish reading journal
Beginner II
Madrid. José Luis Ábalos, who was the right hand of the president of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, both since his appointment as Minister of Transport – the portfolio with the largest budget in the government – and as the Organization Secretariat of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), was sentenced yesterday to 24 years in prison by the Supreme Court for the crimes of belonging to a criminal organization, bribery, embezzlement of public funds and influence peddling.
A bus from the Ttur–Transportes Turísticos company, coming from Chiapas, overturned yesterday after leaving federal highway 45, near the town of Hacienda Nueva, near the city of Zacatecas. Two women died and 15 people were injured, five of them seriously.
Durango, Dgo., Bean producers in the state blocked roads in this capital and took over the regional offices of the federal Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), as well as those of Food for Wellbeing, to demand compliance with agreements established for the collection of their crops.
When dismissing journalistic versions about the imminently published book by former United States ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar, in which he narrates that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was concerned about the possible statements of drug trafficker Ismael El Mayo Zambada in the northern country, President Claudia Sheinbaum maintained that her predecessor's concerns were about possible violations of Mexican sovereignty in his capture and transfer to US territory.
President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected the versions that the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) delivered 800 million pesos directly to section 22 of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE).
“The history of human society up to the present day is a history of class struggle,” Marx and Engels point out in the Manifesto of the Communist Party. This fight will continue as long as human beings survive, because inequality is a constant that does not change. We find ourselves in a stage of greater contrasts, not only between social classes, but at the level of knowledge. Regardless of skin color, gender or economic position, young people integrate through virtual communication and we old people remain with codes from the past that limit interaction in the modern world.
The engraver, painter, architect and historian Fernando Alba, whose work ranges from engraving to relief, from relief to sculpture, will present on July 3 a retrospective of his work at the Zero618 Gallery, in Buenos Aires, made up of 50 pieces, in which pre-Hispanic myth, African cattle and expanded graphics stand out.
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said yesterday in her morning conference that the intervention of organized crime in the country's mining sector is under investigation. Questioned about allegations that there are pacts between criminal groups with Canadian extractive companies, the president said that no formal lawsuits have been filed - before state or federal prosecutors' offices - but referred to the non-compliance of such consortia with environmental regulations.
The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) obtained an order of connection to proceedings against three people, who are related to the Northeast cartel for their possible participation in organized crime crimes for the purposes of committing kidnapping and aggravated kidnapping against five citizens of India, committed in June 2025 in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
During Father's Day, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo congratulated dads in the country and recognized those who give the best for their families. “We recognize those who, with love, work and effort, give the best of themselves to their families and contribute every day to building a better Mexico,” he declared on social networks, while wishing them a day full of joy, hugs and lots of affection. As part of her work tour that concluded this Sunday in Mexicali, and accompanied by girls and boys from this border municipality, she visited one of the 4,000 soccer fields built for the Social World Cup.
The infinite capacity that the crazed Donald Trump has to do and say any number of nonsense and atrocities on a daily basis is reflected in the savage threat he launched yesterday, in the midst of negotiations with the representation of the Iranian government: "if they close the Strait of Hormuz they will be left without a country; they will not even be able to return to their fucking country."
Mexicali, BC., President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo inaugurated the new González Ortega Combined Cycle Power Plant of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), located in the Mexicali valley, which will contribute 653 megawatts (MW) to the national system and will supply one of the regions with the highest temperatures in the country.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chis, With the aim of “renewing our commitment to life in relation to our walk for truth, justice and non-repetition”, members of 10 organizations, including the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba), participated in the second Minerva historical memory forum, beating heart of the Mountain, held in the community of Acteal, municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas.
With the purpose of ensuring the protection of the environment, the conservation of the ecosystems of Ohuira Bay and the well-being of local communities, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) reported that it maintains permanent surveillance over the construction and future operation of the ammonia plant in Topolobampo, Sinaloa.
–Commander, many people told me: you will not be able to interview Ramiro, he does not speak. Why don't you talk to the press?
Spain reemerged as a football power. La Roja, which carries the label of an elite team, achieved its first victory in the 2026 World Cup by beating Saudi Arabia 4-0 to get closer to the round of 32 after a match at the Atlanta stadium, where Mikel Oyarzabal was the protagonist with a double and Lamine Yamal celebrated his first World Cup goal to enter a select list of youth scorers.
From January 1 to June 20, the Unified Citizen Assistance System (SUAC) received 50,652 requests related to the lack of drinking water, which is equivalent to an average of 296 daily reports. Of that total, 4,535 correspond to the Government of Mexico City, while 46,117 were channeled to the 16 mayor's offices.
Chickenpox is a disease that has accompanied the history of humanity and occurs in practically all people in childhood or adolescence.
With a backlog that already totals more than 5,500 unresolved initiatives, the committees in the Chamber of Deputies maintain the strategy of decreeing extensions so as not to approve opinions, while legislators continue to present reform proposals.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, recognized the work and strength of searching parents and children.
Professors at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) increasingly attend courses to understand the gender diversity of their students and have better practices in the classroom to eradicate the discrimination and stereotypes that persist, Alejandra González Bazúa, from the Directorate of Education for Equality of the Coordination for Gender Equality (CIGU) of the institution, said in an interview.
Chihuahua, Chih., The PAN governor of Chihuahua, María Eugenia Campos, demanded that the federal government and President Claudia Sheinbaum extradite to the United States the licensed governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, as well as other politicians accused by the US government of alleged links to organized crime.
The news of the week was that President Donald Trump referred to a peace agreement between Iran and the US-Israel axis, which most foreign policy observers called a “memorandum of understanding.” It refers to the establishment of a working table in which proposals and differences from the nations in the dispute are spread. There, the mechanisms are reviewed and established to iron out differences that now allow for reaching agreements to establish a lasting peace, as far as possible. In essence, there is still no treaty.
The exhibition A ras de tierra: The ethical and aesthetic pulse of Mariana Yampolsky is a selection of graphic work, photography and bibliographic materials that proposes an approach to the various facets of one of the most prominent figures of Mexican visual culture of the 20th century.
Moscow. Russia's agricultural exports have risen sharply in recent months amid uncertainty over the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the arrival of the El Niño climate phenomenon, according to Rosselkhozbank (RSHB).
The New Mexican School lives in each teacher, in each group, in each community, the New Mexican School lives there, in the linking of our Study Plan and Programs with the situations that surround the communities and the knowledge that our students are intended to develop in each training field and articulating axes.
The Anti-Corruption and Good Government Secretariat and the Federal Court of Administrative Justice imposed a financial penalty of 777.8 million pesos on four officials from Food for Wellbeing (AliBien), as well as disqualifications and other fines on another 23 public servants from various federal agencies for different serious and non-serious offenses linked to diversion of public resources or theft of property.
In four years, 2,630 people were injured in various incidents that occurred within Metro facilities and convoys, including falls on stairs and untimely braking, of which 500 required hospital transfer, according to records from the Inventory and Risk Management Coordination of the Collective Transportation System (STC).
The works of the engraver José Guadalupe Posada (Aguascalientes, 1852-Mexico City, 1913), his inspirations and creative experiments are the center of the exhibition Posada: Cartography of a chronicler.
China, India and Brazil lead the decline in holdings of US Treasuries. From April of last year to the same month of 2026, between the three countries they had gotten rid of 187,407 million dollars in US government debt, whose total amounts to 39 trillion dollars, while the developing economies convened by the economic and political coalition of emerging powers BRICS seek to strengthen their commercial and financial exchanges with their own currencies, replacing the dollar.
Buenos Aires., Chinese automotive brands are gaining more and more ground in Argentina, driven by rising demand and the arrival of new companies in the country, according to sector data.
Prior to the opening of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, at the Mexico City stadium, the arrival of foreign tourists to Mexico by air registered an interannual decrease of 3.6 percent in the first four months, adding 8 million 33 thousand 635 visitors, that is, almost 300 thousand fewer foreign travelers compared to 2025.
Without yet reaching alliance agreements, with different rules for each political party and with multiple issues still in the air, today begins the registration of candidates for the internal process of the 4T parties with which they will define the state coordination of the Defense of Transformation, a position prior to the appointment of the candidacies for the 17 governorships that will be at stake next year.
The lack of maintenance of the electrical infrastructure has caused failures in the recently launched El Ajolote Light Train, the main means of transportation from Tasqueña to the Azteca stadium, which is why immediate intervention is required, said Gerardo Martínez, general secretary of the Tramway Alliance of Mexico.
César Roberto Fierro spent 40 years on death row in Texas, United States, for a crime that Mexican police, colluding with American agents, forced him to confess under torture.
Moscow. The United Nations (UN) warned yesterday in a report of the existence of 12 global hunger hotspots for the period between June and September of this year, with Palestine, Sudan, South Sudan and Yemen as the main concerns.
The artist and filmmaker Rodrigo Ímaz assures that art has the possibility of influencing and inviting different actors and participants, from an empathetic level, to talk about topics that are not normally touched on because they are complex, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His interest in showing the discrimination that a State exercises towards an ethnic origin is recorded in Latas de Palestine, a bilingual book-catalogue (Spanish and English) of the homonymous exhibition hosted by the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico.
New York. A 51-year-old Connecticut man died after falling from an upper tier during a concert at Madison Square Garden, police said Saturday night.
It will be more than difficult to ignore what has happened on the city streets over the past three weeks. Assuming that someone did well in that period is nonsense. We all lost.
Bogota. This Sunday, Colombia elected the far-right Abelardo de la Espriella president of the Republic for the next four years: 2026-2030, according to the pre-count of votes, which was recognized by the progressive standard-bearer Iván Cepeda, and announced that it will challenge 33 thousand voting stations; However, the verdict of the judges who will carry out the final scrutiny is still pending.
Mexicali, BC., Searching mothers displayed banners in front of the recently inaugurated González Ortega Combined Cycle Plant, in the Mexicali Valley, to request President Claudia Sheinbaum to continue with the excavations in the Miguel Alemán ejido, where they have found 44 bodies.
The resistance has been going on for two decades, but it is with the current government of Chiapas that the authorities finally materialize a project that previous administrations of different parties could not. A first conclusion is that all political organizations agree on the construction of the San Cristóbal de Las Casas (SCLC)-Palenque highway along the route they chose. And to achieve this, they equally dismiss, criminalize or co-opt communities.
Good for Iran, whose soccer team stopped Belgium's shells and took a 0-0 draw in a similar way to the Iranian nation, which continues to defend its right against the United States, which does not cease its efforts to dominate it. I think that both events, the football incident and the unjust war unleashed by the president of the United States, are a good example for the world that the right must prevail over the supposed supremacy, which in the end is not the case if the fighting spirit and courage win. Congratulations, Iran.
Tapachula, Chis., As a father of three children, it is not easy to make the decision to leave them, but at the same time they are the reason for migrating to offer them better living conditions, said Honduran Byron Rodríguez, who joined the migrant caravan De la mano de Dios, which advances along the coast of Chiapas.
Zacatecas, Zac., The federal administration headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo intends to “shelve” the criminal complaint against Grupo México and its owner Germán Larrea, to exempt it from responsibility for the most serious case of environmental contamination in the country's modern era, which occurred 12 years ago, when 40 thousand cubic meters of acidulated copper sulfate solution were spilled into the Tinajas stream in the municipality of Cananea, Sonora, reproached Elda León. Contreras, one of those affected by said tragedy and spokesperson for the Sonora River Basin Committees
The lack of surveillance in the Ecoducto Río de la Piedad linear park, located on the central median of the Miguel Alemán Viaduct, between the limits of three municipalities –Cuauhtémoc, Benito Juárez and Miguel Hidalgo–, has led to scenarios of insecurity, with robberies from passers-by, scratches on street furniture and damage to lighting fixtures due to theft of wiring, despite the fact that since the beginning of this year the capital government has carried out work to renovate the space with the placement of new plants and cleaning work on the site.
Miami. The three-minute hydration breaks, which FIFA has converted into commercial spaces, have generated great controversy both among the teams competing in the 2026 World Cup and among the fans themselves, who have responded with boos during these periods in several matches of the tournament to express their annoyance.