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The upper chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) endorsed the management period of the Morena presidency, now headed by Ariadna Montiel, and the Secretary of Finance, Óscar del Cueto, among other elements approved at the party congress held in May.
Caracas. The inhabitants of the areas devastated by the double earthquake of June 24 will work on the reconstruction of their homes, reported the head of the Venezuela Renace Plan, Jacqueline Faria, during an inspection in the state of La Guaira.
Without revealing his identity or explaining why he was handed over to the United States, Ernestina Godoy Ramos, head of the Attorney General's Office (FGR), reported that the pilot who operated the aircraft in which Ismael El Mayo Zambada was transferred to that country was deported to Mexican territory and later returned to that country.
Wimbledon. The German tennis player Alexander Zverev and the British Arthur Fery starred in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, the third Grand Slam of the season, after sealing their place in the men's semifinals, while in the women's team the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk and the Czech Linda Noskova also advanced to the penultimate round.
The death of Mexican Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, shot dead last Tuesday by an agent of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) in Houston, Texas, is not an isolated tragedy; The tactics of this agency “are putting public safety at risk, while deaths in its custody continue to increase,” warned the Americas Alliance, which brings together various organizations that accompany undocumented immigrants in that country.
While in Mexico we are fighting floods due to overflowing rivers and flooded towns with their effects on people, houses and roads, in Europe they are literally dying from the heat. The latest issue of the prestigious scientific journal Nature, published on June 26, is dedicated to analyzing the heat wave in Europe that has killed hundreds of people. The question asked is whether it is an isolated phenomenon or if it is here to stay. That is, it is transitory or a lasting change. For this, a series of evidence is presented that clearly confirms that it is a lasting change. Different institutions in various countries reach the same conclusion. However, there are also researchers who consider that it can be reversible, since it depends on the confluence of various phenomena.
The Cuban painter, sculptor and engraver Luis Miguel Valdés (Pinar del Río, 1949) died last Monday in Cuernavaca, Morelos. This was reported by the Cuban embassy in Mexico through its social networks.
The Mexican Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Camic) pointed out that the 2030 World Cup in Morocco, Spain and Portugal represents an opportunity for Mexican companies to explore that market beyond the sporting event, in sectors such as infrastructure, mobility, hospitality, technology, renewable energy and manufacturing.
Mexico's participation as host of the Soccer World Cup has come to an end. For more than three weeks, our country had institutional efforts to host the football festival in questionable conditions, which caused joy among many people, but which never meant a respite for thousands and thousands of victims of violence.
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) rejected the appeal filed by the former director of the Mexico City Housing Institute (Invi) Raymundo Collins Flores, with which he sought to annul the sentence that disqualified him for 10 years and imposed a fine of 42 million pesos for abuse of functions by granting undue tax benefits.
Yesterday's electrical storm in Mexico City, accompanied by widespread, intense and specific rains, which activated the red alert in the Álvaro Obregón, Azcapotzalco, Benito Juárez and Gustavo A. Madero districts, left severe flooding in avenues and streets of those municipalities, and minutes before 10 p.m. five stations on Metro line 5 were out of service: Misterios, Valle Gómez, Consulado, Eduardo Molina and Aragón.
With the aim of expanding the narrative about the art of our country between 1890 and 1950, as well as showing proposals less perceived since then, including work created in the entities of the Republic, the room Art and visuality in modern Mexico: Munal Siglo XX collection was inaugurated yesterday.
Mexico led the cut to the growth estimates of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), only followed by Canada. The organization adjusted its forecasts for the global economy for this year and next, but in accumulated terms, the global outlook did not see a decline. In fact, the data show that the United States' main trading partners are the most affected in their expansion prospects for this biennium.
The new rules of the Bank of Mexico (BdeM) open the door to 4.4 million small businesses to the digital payments ecosystem, experts consider. The changes aim for grocery stores, bakeries, tortillerias, beauty salons and hardware stores to stop operating outside the digital economy and gradually integrate into the use of electronic transfers and payments.
Mexico should not be subordinated in its commercial relationship with the United States, said Octavio de la Torre de Stéffano, president of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco-Servytur), who called for taking care of this link between both nations.
Lausanne. The London-based sports and human rights NGO FairSquare indicated that it will file a complaint with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for “the repeated violation of the rules of political neutrality” by the head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, requested that a sanction be lifted against the player Folarin Balogun.
Colima, Col., Fishermen, salt farmers, scientists, farmers and activists demonstrated yesterday at the offices of the Ministry of the Interior, in the historic center of the capital, against the project to expand the port of Manzanillo in the Cuyutlán lagoon. With banners and blankets that read: “Save the lagoon!”, the protesters accused the authorities of the Administration of the National Port System (Asipona) of manipulating to obtain the environmental impact statement from the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. Among the arguments against the project, they exposed the destruction of dozens of hectares of mangrove, the entry of seawater into the lake that will cause “ecocide” and the impediment to continue producing salt and carry out fishing activities in the area. The plan presented by Asipona on June 25 contemplates increasing the port area to 1,880 hectares in the lagoon area, with an investment of more than 13,539 million pesos. The protesters demanded a dialogue with Javier Pinto, head of the delegation of the Ministry of the Interior in Colima, who accepted a meeting for this Thursday.
The deaths of 06/30/26 in the football celebrations are the responsibility of the state, due to its role as guarantor in a preventable collapse. The requirement of prevention and reparation of the public administration is in the Federal Constitution (Arts. 109 and 113), Federal Law of State Patrimonial Responsibility (right to compensation for irregular administrative activity), Law of Comprehensive Risk Management and Civil Protection of Mexico City (obliges authorities to plan, prevent and mitigate risks in public spaces) and the American Convention on Human Rights (articles 4 and 5) which indicates the state's omission to adopt measures reasonable measures to mitigate a real and immediate risk, such as a direct violation of their responsibilities to protect the rights to life and personal integrity.
Ernestina Godoy Ramos, head of the Attorney General's Office (FGR), explained yesterday that in the transfer of Ismael El Mayo Zambada to the United States "we are facing three serious situations: a series of violations of Mexican and international law, an agreement outside the law, as well as a lie by a US diplomat (former ambassador Ken Salazar)," which represents a transgression of the cornerstone principle of good faith in diplomatic relations provided for in international treaties.
The Government Secretariat estimated that at least 6 million people have taken to the streets of Mexico City, from June 11 to date, to watch one of the 104 World Cup Soccer matches for free on the screens that were installed in various parts of the capital.
The Attorney General's Office (FGR) and the security cabinet discovered a network of fuel smugglers from the United States to national territory that uses railroads to transport hydrocarbons, and the customs office in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, as the main route to enter Mexico.
The purchase of 56 thousand pesos chandeliers to decorate Metro facilities contrasts with the working conditions faced by cleaning workers, who receive salaries of only 1,800 pesos a fortnight, constant delays in their payments and must purchase with their own resources part of the supplies they use daily.
US Senator Bernie Sanders, who defines himself as a democratic socialist, asserted yesterday that "restarting his reckless war with Iran will not make the United States stronger. It will cost more lives and will be a greater waste of taxpayers' money." In a post on
Cairo. Two children, aged 10 and 6, were killed yesterday in air attacks by Israel on Gaza, which continues its offensive despite the ceasefire, while the Peace Board promoted by the US president, Donald Trump, studies establishing a “humanitarian zone” in the south of the territory that would host tens of thousands of Palestinians, subject to prior control.
In the heart of the Mayan jungle, one of the largest areas of tropical forest in America, the K'u' Áayin project promotes jaguar conservation through camera trap monitoring, scientific research and the participation of local communities.
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.