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WHO recommendations for healthy growth during the first five years of life.
In addition to the deluge of news about wars (including, for example, that the United States dropped a 2,000-pound megabomb on a family's home in Iran, killing a child and his two parents), interventions, the climate of fear over operations by armed and masked men hunting “illegal” migrants (detaining, among others, an emergency room nurse for the color of her skin) and more news that children continue to be separated from their immigrant parents and several minors, including a six-year-old baby months, are caged in detention centers, censorship of history and literature, efforts to suppress the minority opposition vote, new outbreaks of diseases previously under control as a result of the disastrous management of public health by the government, more corruption at unprecedented levels and with a long history of the presidential family (a bank has just disclosed that it closed some 300 accounts of the Trump Organization a few years ago due to detection of possible money laundering), since the only thing missing was even more worrying news: the closure of more and more cantinas and the collapse of the wine industry. Oh, and pieces of artifacts, some weighing more than a ton, are falling from the skies.
Mexico City will host a local version of Woodstockhousen, a festival that has taken place in locations as unconventional as the music it has sought to spread since 2013.
The Mexican U-23 women's team yesterday not only secured its place in the semifinals of the Central American and Caribbean Games Santo Domingo 2026: it did so with a display of power that made it clear why it arrived as the great favorite at the event.
A control judge issued preventive detention against Ramón Ángel Álvarez Ayala, El R1, identified as the intellectual author of the murder of the municipal president of Uruapan, Michoacán, Carlos Manzo, and leader of one of the most violent cells of the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel (CJNG).
The warning about the harmful use of electronic devices in childhood was raised at least 10 years ago. Later, in 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized video game use disorder in the international classification of diseases (ICD-11), while excessive activity on social networks or excessive Internet browsing is considered “problematic use.” In Mexico, it is a serious and urgent matter, warned Deimos Aguilar Jiménez, a psychiatrist specialized in children and adolescents.
The Mexican women's basketball team stood on a podium at the Central American and Caribbean Games for the first time in 12 years, winning the silver medal in this edition held in Santo Domingo – the 250th of the season for the delegation. The tricolor quintet fell 57-44 against Puerto Rico in the match that was played yesterday at the Banreservas Arena.
Toluca, Méx., Since the creation of the Special Unit for the Investigation of Crimes of Dispossession and Against the Security of Property and Possession of Real Estate, of the Attorney General's Office of the State of Mexico (FGJEM), in April 2025, the number of complaints received for this crime has increased by 9 percent, to the point that in one year 7,018 files have already been opened. investigation.
Tapachula, Chis., Migrants of various nationalities held at the Siglo XXI station of the National Migration Institute (INM), in this city on the border with Guatemala, rioted the night before to demand their release since, they claim, they suffer abuse within the facility.
Although the local Congress approved reforms to the Civic Culture Law to toughen sanctions against those who throw garbage in public spaces, open-air dumps continue to invade streets, medians and green areas.
As a priority for the next period of sessions, the Chamber of Deputies plans to approve a reform proposed by the Executive Branch to the Federal Copyright Law, in order to define the shared responsibility of Internet providers for the trafficking of illegal content carried out by their users.
The eradication of the cattle screwworm in Mexico could be completed within a period of between five and seven years, once the production of sterile flies accelerates at the new Metapa plant in Domínguez, Chiapas, and with the future operation of another one being built by the United States, said Francisco Javier Calderón Elizalde, head of the National Agri-Food Health, Safety and Quality Service (Senasica).
By sponsoring the new generation of midshipmen, the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, recognized the Secretary of the Navy as a key player in the fight against organized crime and highlighted that in this administration, the naval institution has seized more than 80 tons of cocaine at sea and has contributed to reducing homicides in the country by 48 percent.
Being an aviator pilot in Mexico is a career with high technical and professional demands. It requires an investment of up to 2 million pesos, passing strict medical filters and dealing with a competitive market at the beginning.
The crisis over the admission process for the 2026 degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) seems to be far from over. To the complaints of applicants who reported irregularities in the first virtual entrance exam, are added the increasingly frequent complaints of selected students, who refuse to undergo a second evaluation and this Monday will demonstrate in front of the Rectory Tower.
Mateo Chávez has more and more confidence to stand out on European courts. The young tricolor had a great performance and even collaborated in a goal so that his team, AZ Alkmaar, celebrated the first title of this season by winning the Dutch Super Cup after beating PSV Eindhoven 4-0.
San Miguel de Allende, Gto., The tour of The Wild Order does not end when you leave the room where Ray Smith's hybrid creatures coexist. In the adjacent space, pieces by Pedro Coronel, Ricardo Martínez, Javier Marín, Dr. Lakra and other artists representative of different stages of Mexican art are exhibited.
Political commentator E.J. Dion wrote an article last week about the problems that the Democratic Party has regarding its ideological definition in the context of the campaign for the elections in November. The reason for his comment lies in the statements of several successful candidates in the primary elections, in the sense of their social democratic vocation. The expectation has to do with the need for a moderate path to prevail “more in line” with the characteristics of the majority in American society. For them, the electoral campaign should focus on this order of priorities: famine in general, mainly that experienced by those with lower incomes; the draconian immigration policy; and in the clumsy foreign policy decisions of the current administration.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, yesterday shared an article by conservative presenter and commentator Bill O'Reilly, published on March 11, in which he maintains that "Mexico is not a friend of the United States" and criticizes President Claudia Sheinbaum for her strategy against drug trafficking cartels.
U.S. borrowing rates hit their highest level since June 2007. Fears of inflation catapulted the yield on the 30-year U.S. bond above a 19-year high of 5.27 percent on Friday.
Authorities from the Government Secretariat informed street merchant leaders who set up shop in Alameda Central that as of this Monday each group will only be allowed to place seven of its members, that is, with the measure it is expected that there will be around 77 stalls and no more than 600, according to estimates from some vendors interviewed.
London. Criticism against Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, continues two days after withdrawing the controversial proposal to partially privatize the World Cup. Now, political leaders, clubs, leagues and specialists question his leadership at the head of football's governing body.
Since the beginning of the war of aggression by the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28, launched treacherously and with perfidy while Washington and Tehran were holding nuclear negotiations, the conflict has gone through different phases and has fragmented and expanded throughout the Middle East. Instigated by the war criminal and fugitive from international justice, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump initially approached the stealth attack of beheading and terror from a transactional and aesthetic logic: bomb, obtain the image of the Iranian collapse and withdraw in a couple of days (a replica of the New Venezuela operation). However, despite the unlimited violence – the destruction of critical dual-use infrastructure and the selective assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a group of generals and nuclear scientists, and at least 200 civilians dead and 750 wounded – there was no regime change or capitulation. On the contrary, Iran counterattacked and, since then, through a disciplined, methodical and millimeter-precise asymmetric war of attrition, which hit and “blinded” the sophisticated military (and paramilitary) bases and intelligence and communications nodes of the Pentagon's Central Command (CentCom) in the Persian Gulf theater of operations (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Kurdistan), it has set the pace of the war and undermined the myth of American power projection.
Yosthan N, El Diente de Oro, an alleged member of the Tren de Aragua criminal group, according to the Attorney General's Office (FGJ), was linked to proceedings for the crime of human trafficking in the form of sexual exploitation for allegedly demanding money from a sex worker to let her carry out her activity in the Benito Juárez mayor's office.
The Tlallipan garden has become a meeting point for visitors from different regions and even from other states of the Republic, who come to see the space and take advantage of it as a place of recreation.
Physical investment in the first half of this year remains 7.9 percent below that registered in the same period last year, although the gap has been narrowing and only in June was a rebound of 56.2 percent at an annual rate, reported the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.
Washington. US President Donald Trump confirmed that the US has intervened to support the Japanese yen, saying it is a “sign of friendship” that will also be “positive for the global economy”.
Oil prices fell today as Asian markets opened after President Donald Trump said a deal is close.
There is something about this America that forces its fans to speak in a low voice, to look at the Liga Mx calendar with caution, as if they had lost the habit of claiming the lead. The change did not happen overnight, but its effects are visible. The administrative restructuring brought with it cold numbers in finances, a locker room that stopped being filled with international figures to make way for young people from basic forces, capable of resolving long-suffering matches like the one yesterday at the Banorte stadium against Santos (3-0).
Ciudad Victoria, Tamps., Tamaulipas began 2026 with one of the best economic performances in the country. In the first quarter of this year, state economic activity grew 5.2 percent compared to the same period in 2025, ranking it as the second entity with the highest economic growth at the national level.
San Miguel de Allende, Gto., The old walls of the La Aurora Factory left behind the roar of the looms decades ago.
The General Directorate of Canal Once reported that it peacefully recovered its facilities, after being taken over for more than two months by unemployed students from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN).
Guadalajara, Jal., The Time of the Monster, ninth book by Roberto Castelán Rueda (Minatitlán, Veracruz, May 16, 1957), narrates the widespread and largely timeless violence in which we are all immersed, especially women, with an approach that also touches on political violence towards society, which is deceived by the candidates for rulers, who, once installed in power, show their true face, as occurs in Jalisco, he says.
The Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) rejected that elements of the Undersecretariat of Traffic Control have attacked and threatened the refereeing body that participated in the Cruz Azul-Atlante match, after a video circulated on social networks in which the police officers were accused of attacking them when leaving the Azteca stadium.
Heilongjiang., The day astronaut Yang Liwei returned to Earth, in October 2003, after spending 21 hours in orbit, China entered the exclusive club of nations capable of sending human beings to space with its own technological development, of which only the United States and the Soviet Union were members.
The higher regional court in the German city of Zweibrücken ruled that comparing Israel's actions with those of the Nazi regime does not constitute a crime, after acquitting an Instagram user previously convicted of posting images with Nazi symbols to condemn the genocide in Palestine.
Whoever says that the crisis at UNAM began with the results of the entrance exams is flatly lying.
Madrid. Spanish authorities detected agents of the Moroccan intelligence services infiltrated among the 53,060 migrants who entered the autonomous city of Ceuta last Thursday irregularly in just a few hours, and which, according to data from the Ceuta government, caused 88 deaths. Meanwhile, the Moroccan government officially recognized 11 bodies of migrants recovered in its territory.
Sixty-eight years have passed on August 3 of this year of one of the great injustices that have been committed against Mexican leaders. Demetrio Vallejo and Valentín Campa were attacked by the Mexican Army at the request of the then president, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. Date so important that I saw it in the world anniversaries.
Havana., Cuba suffered a new national blackout of its electrical network last night, the state energy company reported on social networks.
More than two thousand years ago, this land saw the birth of Confucianism, which has deeply influenced China and the entire world. A century ago, this land witnessed the glorious struggle waged by the army and people in resistance to foreign invasion. Today, this land brims with the dynamism of the maritime economy that is increasingly integrated with the world. This is Shandong, a province on the eastern coast of China. Located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and bathed by the Bohai and Yellow Seas, Shandong is one of the main cradles of Chinese civilization, one of the most populated and economically strongest provinces in the country, and also an important window of China's opening to the outside world.
They are bad and bad. The Mexican federations were exposed for their convenient stance when faced with the dilemma of choosing between publicly supporting Gianni Infantino or the associations that supported the powerful UEFA, opposed to the mercantilistic plans of the shaky FIFA president... Such was the latest nonsense of the Swiss-Italian leader, that it became the straw that breaks the camel's back... At this time he is going through life like an unburied corpse, the waters are already stirring to find a successor. At the same time, the Mexican plans to organize a Club World Cup and the 2031 Women's Championship were left with a question mark.
Excuse me for not introducing myself. With this head of mine, good for nothing, I always get distracted. I have to force her to be of use, anything, but useful. As long as it doesn't get in the way. Since he stumbled upon the first mathematical equation he knew that he would never be able to pose or solve one. He avoided them like scabies. I'm not going to list all our failures here either. Let's say that I tried various ways or jobs for her that had a certain amount of usefulness, helpfulness, I don't know, that worked for something or someone. That they provided any practical, empirical virtue, let alone on a theoretical level. He moves forward through the days with many more things to do than he does.
Athens. Two firefighting helicopters collided yesterday west of Athens, while France kept the fire contained near Bordeaux and Hungary shut down the Paks nuclear power plant, for the first time in 44 years, due to the record drop in the flow of the Danube, amid the high temperatures and drought caused by the constant heat waves recorded in Europe so far this year, related to global warming caused by human activity.
In the context of the National Circuit of Orchestras for Peace and Territories of Peace, the Children's Symphony Orchestra of Mexico (OSIM) will tour from today until August 9 through public squares and venues in Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, San Luis Potosí and Mexico City.
Panamanian José Caballero hit a two-run home run, Gerrit Cole pitched into the sixth inning and the Yankees held on yesterday to beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1. The New York ninth lasted three scoreless innings from relievers Brent Headrick, Paul Blackburn and David Bednar to take two of the three games in the series.
Morena in Mexico City called on mayors to monitor the actions of their public officials, especially those who work in urban development areas, in order to combat the dispossession mafia.
Paternal absence is a deep wound that many Mexican families remain silent about. This theme is addressed in the monologue My Father's Socks, where it is not only narrated from the perspective of the person who abandons him, but also of those who have had to rebuild themselves from that lack.
The national leadership of Morena postponed at the end of the month the registration of those seeking to be candidates for federal deputies and mayors in the 2027 election and anticipated that there will be specific requirements, different from those defined for those seeking one of the 17 governorships in dispute for that year.
Mexican exports of computer equipment to the United States grew 72.64 percent at an annual rate during the first five months of 2026, reaching approximately 52 billion dollars, according to figures from the Bank of Mexico (BdeM).