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As an invitation to discover an intimate, deep and revealing Mexico through the lens of Mariana Yampolsky, Memérico. Mexico, remember and the Universidad Iberoamericana present online an exhibition about the photographer, who, committed to social causes, portrayed the country's communities.
The candidate for the presidency of Colombia for the Historical Pact and the Alliance for Life, Iván Cepeda Castro, announced that he will challenge 33 thousand tables (boxes) and, although he recognized as “an unofficial or binding data” the pre-count that places him almost one point below his far-right rival Alberto de la Espriella, he said that he will not set his position on the second round held yesterday until the final result of the scrutiny is produced and the elections have been made. corresponding verifications. According to this provisional result released by the National Registry of Civil Status, and with 99.99 percent of the tables informed, Cepeda would have obtained 48.7 percent of the vote compared to 49.66 percent of his opponent. The progressive standard-bearer highlighted his commitment to democracy and reaffirmed that he will recognize the official result emanating from the scrutiny work contemplated in the law, for which a “group of witnesses, tens of thousands of lawyers,” have been summoned.
The federal government has invested more than 55 billion pesos to implement 21 regional justice and development plans for indigenous people, benefiting more than 3,000 communities in 34 towns, in addition to 318 Afro-Mexican populations in various states.
New Jersey., Attacker Raphinha, one of Brazil's main offensive cards in the World Cup, will undergo "intensive treatment" after suffering a muscle injury to his right thigh, reported the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF).
Tijuana, BC., In front of an audience made up mostly of mothers and primary school students, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo called for reflection and participation in a broad national discussion about the time that boys and girls can spend in front of a cell phone screen and whether or not the use of these should be allowed in schools; In addition, he invited them to return to traditional games.
Two sinkholes, one 30 and the other 40 meters long, were formed in the municipalities of San Juan de los Lagos and San Martín Hidalgo, Jalisco, respectively, due to the intense rains of the last few hours in the entity.
For a team accustomed to glory, 12 years was a sentence. Yesterday, in the Toronto stadium, Germany finally shook off that curse. The Mannschaft beat Ivory Coast 2-1 and thus entered the second round of the World Cup, finally breaking a streak of consecutive humiliations that had been going on since the 2018 Russia edition and that continued in Qatar 2022.
The thousandth match in the history of the World Cups was a true delight for the fans who attended the Monterrey stadium yesterday. The Japanese team did not disappoint and beat Tunisia 4-0 to put one foot in the round of 32.
The participants in the sixth Lencha March in Mexico City demanded to put a stop to lesbofeminicides and transfeminicides, they spoke out against discrimination and demanded justice for these cases.
Power outages have become increasingly frequent in different sectors of Hermosillo, Sonora, in recent weeks of extreme heat, which sparked alerts among users and civil organizations, which demand that the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) urgently reinforce the infrastructure to avoid major damage in the summer.
The Attorney General's Office (FGR) brought criminal action against Raúl Campos Espinosa, former head of the Gendarmerie Division of the defunct Federal Police, as allegedly responsible for the crime of forced disappearance of a person in September 2017.
The United States government, under the administration of Donald Trump, recorded a drastic and sudden increase in the filing of civil lawsuits in federal courts to revoke the citizenship – that is, “denaturalize” – people who had already become US citizens, according to a report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data research center at Syracuse University. Among the most recent cases are at least two Mexicans.
In the way in which key moments in history are remembered, conceptions about the present and, on many occasions, aspirations for the future are also outlined. In a good part of the Mexican intelligentsia, the year 1976 is evoked as the year in which an electoral process had only one candidate: José López Portillo. This reference, almost a commonplace shared by progressive historians as well as by maquiladoras of documentaries with neoliberal content, expresses the blindness towards those who, from the ground of society, and almost always repressed and persecuted, put their will and effort to democratize the Mexican nation.
The Volcano, the Tigers' stadium, will be a temporary training venue for the South African and South Korean soccer teams as part of preparation for the 2026 World Cup, the Monterrey team reported.
Recognized for his congruence and honesty in his pedagogical and union work, and who next September will celebrate 41 years of service, Professor Francisco Nicolás Bravo Herrera received a tribute yesterday afternoon at the Benemérita Escuela Nacional de Maestros (BENM), his alma mater, for his outstanding teaching career and for his work as a union and social leader.
Five people were murdered and one more injured, in different events, inside bars, one of the cases occurred in Plaza Garibaldi, in Cuauhtémoc; The second happened in the Álvaro Obregón mayor's office. The Secretariat of Citizen Security detained six people.
Zacatecas, Zac., Mining in Mexico has been "sold" to public opinion and by the political class during the last four decades as a "strategic sector, generator of wealth, development and well-being", to expand and establish its projects throughout the country with discursive deceptions to strip the nation of its natural resources and deposits, noted researchers, teachers, union leaders and civil organizations of communities affected by extraction.
The speed with which information circulates through digital platforms has changed the way in which banks compete to attract deposits. What previously required million-dollar advertising campaigns or a wide network of branches, today can begin with a simple publication that shows which institution pays the most for savers' money.
Classic among the classics of the B Series and one of the most disturbing examples of film noir, Death at Dawn / Gun Crazy / Deadly Is the Female (United States, 1949-1950) by Joseph H. Lewis, is perhaps the first great film that intriguingly unites nihilism, hopelessness, eroticism and theft as a way of life. The characters of Annie Laurie Starr and Bart Tare played by the beautiful blonde and Irish actress Peggy Cummings and John Dall; Both fascinated by weapons since childhood, they unite their lives through sex and the smell of gunpowder and commit a series of bank robberies that culminate in one of the best sequences of the genre, filmed in a single shot from the back of a car while they carry out their last and tragic robbery.
After 12 years, Cinderella, by British choreographer Ben Stevenson, returns to the Palace of Fine Arts, inspired by the classic story by Charles Perrault, whose choreography stands out for its ensembles, solos and the way in which it articulates the fairy world with the earthly world, enhancing humor – especially with the stepsisters – without sacrificing the elegance of its dances.
Israel asked Facebook and Instagram to censor publications that support Iran and express their opposition to the Tel Aviv government in relation to the military offensive that the Prime Minister and fugitive from the International Criminal Court, Benjamin Netanyahu, maintains against Tehran, with the aim of directing the narrative about the war conflict in its favor through the social networks of the technological giant Meta, which until the first quarter of 2026 had approximately 6.7 billion active users worldwide, an investigation by The Intercept revealed.
United States President Donald Trump announced yesterday that federal authorities made “multiple arrests” of people he accused of vandalizing the reflecting pool on Washington's National Mall, as he tried to explain why the more than $14 million fountain rehabilitation project, which he promoted for the 250th anniversary of the country's independence, apparently went awry after an algae outbreak in the pool. "Who would do something like that? These are very serious crimes related to the destruction of national monuments. Years in jail!", the Republican published on social networks.
–I am José Miguel Rosado Pat, from Mérida, Yucatán, I am 34 years old. I currently collaborate with the federal government and have combined public service with cultural journalism. I am at Conade (the National Commission for Physical Culture and Sports) in the area of Human Resources. I am a lawyer, I studied at the Autonomous University of Yucatán.
The Electoral Institute of Mexico City (IECM) approved three sanctioning procedures, including against the mayors of Iztacalco, Lourdes Paz, and of Tlalpan, Gabriela Osorio, for personalized promotion and use of public resources.
Even though the flow of migrants entering through the country's southern border has decreased, in Tapachula, Chiapas, caravans continue to form to advance to the center and north of the territory, but no longer with the objective of reaching the United States, but rather to Mexico City and other entities where they can rebuild their lives, civil organizations agreed. This, they warned, due to the precarious working and economic conditions in which many of them find themselves and the delay in the procedures to request refuge.
Early Saturday morning, a house that was already damaged collapsed at number 61 Chilpancingo Street, in the Hipódromo Condesa neighborhood, which mobilized emergency teams to rescue an elderly woman; However, a 25-year-old young man died when he was trapped under the rubble.
The four organizations that aspire to join the political party system committed offenses that range from minor to serious, such as allowing active participation of ministers of worship, providing money and groceries in exchange for attending assemblies and even trying to bribe personnel from the National Electoral Institute (INE).
The collision of a pipe against two vehicles – one from the Defense and the other from the National Guard – caused the heavy unit to catch fire near the La Venta phytosanitary booth, on the Cárdenas-Coatzacoalcos highway, on the border of Veracruz and Tabasco. According to the Tabasco Civil Protection Institute, the driver hit the official units, for which he was secured by the corresponding authorities. The road was closed due to the work of extinguishing the flames by the Fire Department of the Civil Protection Unit of the municipality of Las Choapas, Veracruz, and the town of Huimanguillo, Tabasco. No victims were reported.
London. The funeral of the acclaimed British artist David Hockney, who died on June 12 at the age of 88, was held in the strictest privacy, his publicist reported yesterday.
The ruling handed down by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) regarding the imprescriptibility of the crimes committed in the case of the ABC Daycare "reinforces the protection of guaranteeing access to justice by priority attention groups, such as the girls and boys involved," considered the Attorney General's Office (FGR), and with this the process against two involved will continue.
Paris. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) will facilitate the organization of personalized trips, predicted Glenn Fogel, executive director of the online tourism giant Booking, who is confident in the future of his company given the rise of this technology.
The humble Curacao, a team that had never played in a World Cup until now, celebrated its first point in its history in the FIFA tournament by resisting, with a great performance by goalkeeper Eloy Room, against Ecuador's offensive to save a goalless draw at the Kansas City stadium. Although for the Caribbean the duel will be remembered as a football feat, the South Americans will keep this episode as one of the most embarrassing.
The rating given by the British media The Guardian to Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo as the most popular left-wing leader in the world, democratically elected with an approval rating of more than 70 percent, stands out against the wave of far-right conservative leaders elected in America.
Nuevo Laredo, Tamps., A failure in the central customs operation systems yesterday caused the temporary suspension of exports and imports at the Nuevo Laredo World Trade Bridge III, which generated a severe congestion of tractor-trailers that extended for several kilometers on the Méx II route and the accesses to the international crossing. Operations were restored around 2:30 p.m., after more than six hours.
Madrid. Begoña Gómez, wife of the president of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, will be tried for four alleged crimes: business corruption, influence peddling, misappropriation and embezzlement of public funds, in a process opened by the judge of the Provincial Court of Madrid, Juan Carlos Peinado.
Houston. Andrew Giuliani, executive director of the White House World Cup Task Force, said the United States will continue to evaluate Iran's travel arrangements for the tournament, but for now the original plan remains in place despite the Iranian team's complaint.
This week reports on inflation, employment, trade balance, retail sales, services and construction companies will be published; monetary policy decision will also be announced, among others.
Of the 26 players registered by Mexico in the World Cup, only four (Guillermo Martínez, Mateo Chávez, Carlos Acevedo and Guillermo Ochoa) have not added minutes during the first round. As he did against South Africa and South Korea – matches in which he made at least three changes to his formation, one of them forced by the expulsion of César Montes –, the national coach, Javier Aguirre, is evaluating rotating his starters in different positions, a strategy that, however, divides opinions among the former national teams.
Both logistics markets and insurers remain cautious after the peace agreement in the Middle East, said Astrid Karam, vice president of Marine Cargo Logistics and Aviation at Marsh Mexico.
It is impossible to achieve globalization, democracy and sovereignty at the same time; Only two of those three elements can coexist. This is how Dani Rodrik, Turkish-American economist, professor at Harvard and Doctor Honoris Causa 2025 from UNAM, stated in his book Paradox of globalization, “the trilemma of the world economy.”
Specialists from the Ibero-American University (Ibero) consider that the most important legacy of the World Cup is to show the world “that Mexico is not only limited to stereotypes of violence or sepia film filters,” but is a country full of “hospitality, cultural diversity, citizen participation and the ability to meet.”
Tapachula, Chis., The Hand of God caravan, with about 200 migrants, left this city in search of advancing to CDMX or Monterrey, where they can find work and continue their regularization procedures.
Almost two years after the Legislature began, the Bicameral National Security Commission will finally be installed to monitor the policies and actions of the Mexican State to preserve its sovereignty and territorial integrity against external and internal threats.
Under penalty of being called a pushover, I do not let go of the topic of the fundamental foods of humanity that, as their name indicates, cannot be replaced without degrading the same genus that gave rise to them: the human genus.
On World Refugee Day, which was commemorated yesterday, the National Network All Rights for All (TDT Network) expressed its concern about the situation of internal forced displacement in Mexico. He asserted that in the first six months of 2026, various events of this type have occurred in at least five states. Among them Chihuahua, where some 600 people were forced to leave their homes between last February and March.
Tehran. On a soccer field in Tehran, a group of children and adolescents play with complete carelessness under the watchful eye of their coach, driven by the effect of the World Cup and the end of the war.
The sale of imitations of World Cup merchandise continues to flood the streets of the Historic Center, despite the operations of federal and capital authorities to eradicate this practice during the development of the tournament; There are items that remain attractive due to their prices for people who are mainly looking for national team clothing.
Paris has 15 million inhabitants if the metropolitan area is considered, where there are 150 museums for those interested in culture, but visiting the Louvre is a must. The name comes from the French term associated with fortress; In fact, its origins date back to the 12th century, when it was built. It was a royal residence until 1682, the year in which Louis XIV decided to move to Versailles. After the French Revolution of 1789, it opened as a museum in 1793.
Ahome, Sin., Less than two kilometers from where the ammonia plant is being built by the Swiss-German consortium Gas and Petrochemical of the West (GPO), a group of girls and boys raised their kites to the sky as a way to raise their voices in defense of the environment and join the fight against the ecological damage that, residents say, the industrial project will bring to Ohuira Bay.