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Altamira, Tamps., A control judge issued justified preventive detention against Jorge Luis N, director of the Doenitz militarized academy, and the person in charge of the adolescent area, Estrellita N, accused of the crime of femicide against Dafne Zapata, 13 years old, reported the Attorney General's Office of Tamaulipas.
Hermosillo, Son., The derailment of several cars of a Ferromex freight train caused the spill of 59 thousand liters of sodium hydrosulfide – a corrosive chemical compound used in industrial processes – in the border municipality of Naco, which is analyzing taking legal action against Grupo México.
About 20 victims of dispossession met this Monday with Morena deputies in the local Congress to present their cases and request the creation of an instance to follow up on the criminal phenomenon.
Starting in the first week of June, infections due to the Sars-Cov-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, began to rebound, and a positivity of 3.6 percent of laboratory tests has risen steadily. For the week of July 5 to 11, the percentage reached 22.3 and the forecasts of the General Directorate of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health is that it will continue to increase.
Yesterday, Morena expressed his rejection of attempts to put political pressure on Mexican institutions from abroad and from the “old elites.” This, after the so-called Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA Group), made up of former right-wing presidents of Mexico and various countries, affirmed that the arrest of the former governor of Baja California, Ernesto Ruffo Appel, constitutes an act of “political revenge.”
Héctor Josué Arcos Balderas was appointed interim director of the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration (CFCRL), a position he will assume on August 1.
London. British Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced yesterday the exchange with Ukraine of the intellectual property of an electronic jamming system intended to thwart Russian air defenses, during Volodymir Zelensky's visit to the country. He expressed his willingness to send troops to the Slavic country once its war with Russia concludes.
Dozens of bachelor's candidates for the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) who did not obtain a place submitted a request document to the academic authorities of the highest university, whose main demand is that the exam be reestablished in person for this edition and for future admissions.
FIFA and its president, Gianni Infantino, have once again placed themselves at the center of a media debate. While the soccer leadership celebrates the recently concluded World Cup as an unprecedented commercial and audience milestone, various international organizations focus on the geopolitical tensions, visa problems and the shadows of a close relationship with the US government of Donald Trump that accompanied the tournament since its start on June 11.
With the program Between Times: Anthology of Choreographic Poetics, the Contemporary Dance Production Center (Ceprodac) will take fragments of five works performed by Mexican choreographers and dancers to the Palace of Fine Arts today as part of the 80 Movements Dance Season.
Katrina vanden Heuvel: I have always believed that the UN is a flawed, but indispensable organization. However, would you advise someone to apply for or accept the role you have held in recent years, in terms of your overall experience?
Photography does not exist. But in the memories that the Catholic priest Joaquín Antonio Peñalosa shared with José Vicente Anaya about the life and work of the poet Concha Urquiza (1910-1945) while she lived in San Luis Potosí, she continues to shine like this: "In the mornings I went for a walk a little, sometimes I rode a bicycle. On one occasion, at around seven in the morning, I found Concha and Chayo on bicycles, exercising in the San Miguelito Garden. It caused admiration to see two women on bicycles through the streets of this levitical and conservative city at that time; the bicycle was considered a masculine artifact, and this criticism extended to certain upper and bourgeois classes who were always criticized for that, and later to Concha.
After the PAN maintained that the former governor of Baja California, Ernesto Ruffo, is a “political prisoner,” President Claudia Sheinbaum stated that the FGR “gave a lot of evidence in this case” and stressed that it is “false, absolutely false” that there is an alleged political use of the justice institutions, as stated by the national leader of the blue and white, Jorge Romero. Asked about this case during her morning press conference yesterday, the head of the federal Executive recalled that the accusations for the alleged crimes of huachicol and organized crime are not only against the former governor, but also several other detainees, for "a model of fuel smuggling, which is a fraud to the Mexican State, to Mexicans." After the arrest of Ruffo Appel last week, a judge attached to the Federal Criminal Justice Center in Almoloya de Juárez, state of Mexico, issued an order linking him to proceedings against him and against seven other people, after considering that Femdo provided sufficient evidence to support the accusations.
In a key week due to the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decision tomorrow, and given the easing of geopolitical tension, Wall Street had started with significant gains this Monday, but spirits deflated in the final stretch of the day. Investors began to sell dollars, amid a greater appetite for risk due to the fall in oil, but their downward march also slowed, and the US currency ended with a slight advance.
Charlotte. Antonio Turco Mohamed will never lead the Mexican team. He acknowledged it a few weeks ago with a mixture of nostalgia and resignation for a wait without reward. The 2026 World Cup represented the last opportunity to achieve that goal, but the Argentine coach will experience a small rehearsal of what could be: he will lead the Liga Mx representative team that will face the MLS team tomorrow in the All-Star Game in Charlotte.
Much, perhaps too much, has been written about artificial intelligence (AI) and very little, almost nothing, about Natural Intelligence (NI). This essay is dedicated to defining IN and analyzing its profiles and significance.
One dead and two wounded was the result of a direct attack, yesterday afternoon, in the Plaza de Santo Domingo, in the Historic Center.
Washington. On a global scale, some 7,500 languages are currently used, with English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and French being the most common, counting both native and non-native speakers; However, we are very far from the maximum number recorded throughout history.
Amid a boom in technology and artificial intelligence demand, Mexico broke export records in the first half of 2026, with particularly strong performance in non-automotive manufacturing.
Acapulco, Gro., The federal government plans to advance part of its energy transition plans by at least 10 years. According to the Undersecretary of Planning and Energy Transition of the Ministry of Energy (Sener), Jorge Islas Samperio, it is intended that in 2040, and not in 2050 as originally formulated in official documents, 50 percent of the energy produced in the country will be from a clean source, particularly renewable.
Rio de Janeiro., The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, held a telephone conversation on Sunday night in which they expressed their intention to accelerate negotiations for a Mercosur-China trade agreement.
International funding for the fight against HIV will fall by nearly 20 percent in 2025, the UN warned yesterday during the International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro, and warned about the risk of a rebound in the number of cases. The United States drastically reduced its international aid budget after Donald Trump's return to the White House, but so did several European countries, such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Global financial aid to low- and middle-income countries fell 18 percent last year, according to a UNAIDS report. Since 2011, Europe's contribution has decreased 58 percent, according to the report. In the image, the protest at the opening of the conference.
In the early hours of the day, Natasha Landsmanas begins her wakeboard training. He equips himself with a life jacket in a boat and enters the water. Then perform several aerial maneuvers on the board until it is towed.
The Ministry of Public Education (SEP) asked state governments to supervise basic education schools “to verify that there are no” militarized schools, said the head of the agency, Mario Delgado Carrillo.
Alexis Robledo González, originally from Coahuila, 12 years old and a sixth grade student, won a bronze medal, representing Mexico in the International Mathematics Competition, which was held in Mongolia. The rest of the national team also obtained five honorable mentions.
"The railways are the skeleton of the nation, they are part of the construction of its past and its future. Today, with the return of trains to the country, we have the possibility of reflecting on the importance that this transportation had in the formation, not only of Mexican society, but of national democracy itself," said Teresa Márquez Martínez, director of the National Museum of Mexican Railways.
Given the harmful effects on the development of children and adolescents that the excessive use of cell phones and social networks has, a public discussion is necessary on the pertinent actions for a problem that, due to the size of the affected student population, can be considered a public health issue, said president Claudia Sheinbaum. The addiction to the use of these technologies has an impact on new generations and, therefore, affects the future development of the country.
In a context marked by the cult of individualism, the Meeting of Young Creators Morelos 2026 vindicates the collective as an engine of creativity, experimentation and the development of new languages, considers José Luis Paredes Pacho, general director of the System of Support for Creation and Cultural Projects of the federal Ministry of Culture.
The Government of Mexico City announced the procedure for delivering emerging financial support of up to 12,775 pesos to children and adolescents of people who have a missing person reported to the local Persons Search Commission.
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo confirmed that “we always agree with democracy in all its terms,” although she added that “each country has its self-determination and decides how it is organized.” This, referring to the recent statements of the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, who stated a week ago that “there will not be elections again” in that nation.
Approximately 90 women, members of different groups that settle on the sidewalk of Alameda Central on Juárez Avenue, will be relocated to premises that are not occupied in stations of the Metro Collective Transportation System (STC), which “could greatly reduce” the presence of street commerce, which overflows on weekends, said the Secretary of Government, César Cravioto Romero.
Lime. The right-wing Keiko Fujimori, who today assumes the presidency of Peru, held a meeting yesterday with the Deputy Secretary of State of the United States, Christopher Landau, to strengthen the bilateral relationship between both countries in security, investments, among other aspects, reported the office of the elected president.
Everything seems to indicate that the attacks, criticism and comments surrounding the arrest and imprisonment of the PAN member Ruffo Appel, the ruffian, have subsided not because the justice apparatus of the 4T, which has many enemies, is completely and totally right, but because the list of accomplices is extensive, very long.
Grupo Carso, Carlos Slim's conglomerate, reported a net profit of 2,964 million pesos between April and June 2026, an increase of 10.6 percent compared to the same period in 2025, driven by the performance of its oil division and Grupo Sanborns.
The paragraph of my article yesterday about sargassum was vague, in which I mentioned President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo's proposal to create a scientific committee to study everything related to said algae.
Mazatlán, Sin., Corn producers from different regions of Sinaloa demonstrated yesterday at the offices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), located in Culiacán, to reproach the delay in the delivery of federal support of 800 pesos per ton of grain obtained, as well as the uncertainty regarding the closure of the agency's windows scheduled for next July 31, despite the fact that thousands of farmers have not yet registered to receive said resource.
In the first semester, the Government of Mexico City recorded income of more than 183 billion pesos, more than 12 percent of what was expected for the period, driven by the collection of property and payroll taxes, among other items.
Between January and May, the development banking sector doubled its profits compared to the same period last year. According to data from the National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV), these institutions obtained profits of 12,266 million pesos.
Tel Aviv., At least three Palestinians were killed and more than 15 were injured yesterday in Israeli drone operations, in which Wael Ladawi, head of Hamas internal security, was killed in central Gaza.
Los Angeles., Forward Javier Chicharito Hernández, the Mexican national team's all-time top scorer with 52 goals, will be a player for Atlético Dallas, a new club in the second division of the United States.
The Neolithic revolution, with its combination of sedentary lifestyle, agriculture, livestock, property configuration (land, livestock, work instruments), initial knowledge of the natural environment and war environments, made slavery possible and useful: for the benefit of some, against others. These processes occurred independently in at least six regions of the planet known as the cradles of civilization: Western Asia, Eastern China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica, the Andes Mountains, and Eastern North America. Regions of sub-Saharan Africa and the Amazon are usually added. The Neolithic occurred in a vast arc of time: beginning around 8,500 years before our era in eastern Asia; 7,500 in eastern China; 3,500 in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Slaves were produced everywhere. Thus, some men found a way to appropriate the work of other men, in increasingly larger and more complex societies. No region taught another to appropriate the work of others: they all discovered it on their own, because it arose from the same living conditions.
Madrid. Southern Europe, especially France, Spain and Portugal, are facing a wave of fires that experts already define as “the most virulent in history” due to their destructive force, the speed at which they advance and the difficulty of controlling them; amid the drought caused by hotter and drier summers on the continent associated with climate change.
Writing about Elena is, deep down, writing about time, about the life that passes while we talk about it and about this Mexico City that changes its face every morning without ever losing its scars. There is in his figure something of that 20th century that no longer exists except in press archives, in cassette recordings and in the obstinate memory of those who refuse to be forgotten.
San José., Nicaragua postponed until September the approval of a constitutional reform to exclude opposition parties from the elections, a measure that provoked widespread international rejection, announced yesterday the Nicaraguan co-president, Rosario Murillo.
The Government of Mexico City will once again “build” the sculptures of Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara and they will be installed in a different part of the capital, after on July 16 of last year, the mayor of Cuauhtémoc, Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, ordered the removal of the life-size figures that were sitting on a bench, located in the garden of the Plaza de San Carlos, in the Tabacalera neighborhood.
More than four decades ago Carlos Converso premiered a show that he keeps in his repertoire. After more than 1,600 performances, he still feels the tickling in the pit of his stomach before going on stage. “It is a dialogue between the old puppets and the equally old puppeteer.”
The Lord of the Rings trilogy grossed billions at the box office, but actor Sean Astin admitted his salary was so “low” that he had to sell his house.
The Mexican soccer team secured its ticket to the quarterfinals of the Concacaf U-20 Championship, after winning 2-0 yesterday against Costa Rica in the match that was played at the Cuauhtémoc stadium in Puebla.
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Kenia López Rabadán, recognized the decision of the rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas, to integrate a technical commission of specialists and order an exhaustive review of the admission process to the degree due to the alleged anomalies recorded.
Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco Álvarez agreed yesterday with his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, to insist on the Franco-Mexican initiative so that the five permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) refrain from exercising their right of veto in cases of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other mass atrocities.