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Carlos Fernández-Vega: Mexico SA

So that there is no doubt, given that last Tuesday morning the conditional was officially used (the American government “would have participated”), the Attorney General of the Republic, Ernestina Godoy, says it in all its letters: in the kidnapping of Ismael El Mayo Zambada “three serious situations were committed: violations of Mexican and international law, the establishment of an agreement outside the law and the lie of a US diplomat” (former ambassador Ken Salazar)”, which It is the same as transgressing the fundamental principle of good faith in diplomatic relations, provided for in various international treaties.

Restart of the conflict over Hormuz raises the price of oil by 5%

The price of a barrel of oil rose 5 percent after the exchange of aggression between the Iranians and the Americans that led both parties to denounce violations of the ceasefire memorandum of understanding.

Cuba restores the electrical grid, but warns that blackouts will continue

Havana. The Cuban Electrical Union managed to restore the national grid after the collapse last Monday, although it warned that, due to the low level of generation due to lack of fuel, the prolonged blackouts will continue on the island. Meanwhile, the Foreign Minister of the Antillean nation, Bruno Rodríguez, once again thanked the 136 countries that voted in favor of the session of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization "to demand the end of the blockade, the energy fence, the secondary sanctions and the threats of military aggression by the United States" against the Caribbean State.

Activist who sought justice for femicides was run over in Ecatepec

Chimalhuacán, Méx., Laura Velázquez Florencio, activist fighting against feminicide and promoter of freedom of public space, died after being run over on the Circuito Exterior Mexiquense concession highway, in the territory of Ecatepec.

Julio Hernández López: Shipyard

The family of Mexican Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 years old, 35 of them as a construction worker in Houston, Texas, had to see him die lying on the pavement, unable to approach him, surrounded in an impassable manner by agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), one of whom had murdered him.

Marcos Roitman Rosenmann: Elections in Latin America: do nationalist bourgeoisies exist?

After the electoral results in Peru, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras and Bolivia, we can affirm that the national bourgeoisies are a chimera. If we add Argentina, Paraguay, El Salvador and Panama, the picture is bleak. The countries mentioned have in common reactionary governments that are the product of the union of the global right under the umbrella of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where the Atlas Network stands out, a think tank that unifies ideological production in its cultural war against democracy and popular alternatives.

Mexico concentrates 19% of banking profits in Latin America: Felaban

While the banking system in Latin America continues to expand, Mexico strengthens its position as one of its protagonists: last year it generated almost a fifth of the sector's profits on a regional scale, managed around 15 percent of its assets and is part of the small group of countries where the number of participants continues to increase, according to information from the Latin American Federation of Banks (Felaban).

IMSS: 61 thousand jobs were created in June

In June, 61 thousand new formal jobs were created in the country, which were concentrated in the transportation and communications sectors, the extractive industry, social and community services, as well as in construction, while the agricultural sector maintains a negative annual variation of minus 3.9 percent.

“Commercial bankruptcy, due to not having the ability to pay”

Without expressly referring to the legal and administrative situation of Tv Azteca because it is immersed in a legal process, president Claudia Sheinbaum stated that "when any company declares bankruptcy it is because it does not have the capacity to pay its creditors. A judge comes in and begins a negotiation process with its creditors, more or less, to put it very simply," she said.

Judge releases two former FGJ employees accused of the theft of 11 million pesos

A control judge granted the change of precautionary measure to two former public servants of the Attorney General's Office (FGJ) accused of the theft of 11 million pesos from the institution's Evidence Warehouse in 2025, for which they were immediately released.

The UN denounces genocide by rebel forces in Sudan

Geneva. Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out mass killings, kidnappings of women and girls, as well as gang rape and forced food deprivation in a city they occupied last year as part of an intentional policy amounting to genocide, the United Nations (UN) said yesterday.

The Aterno company transforms migration into a sensory experience

César Brodermann transforms migration into a sensory experience in his multidisciplinary work Permanent Transfer, a piece in which he investigates how to break physical and mental borders “to reach a place perhaps a little freer, closer to our identity and thanks to that perhaps create a more empathetic space in collectivism,” indicated the creator.

Ella Laboriel, “a fundamental figure of music and culture in our country,” died

Ella Laboriel was a go-go mulatto. A Garifuna soul who decided to be a chilanga who dared to be a rock and roll artist in Mexico, at a time when women had no place in that world, dominated by men and also by skin issues.

Sheinbaum denies having communication with the elected president of Peru

With the elected president of Peru, Keiko Fujimori, “I have not had communication, we are going to wait, remember that they broke off relations with us because we stated that the head of the Executive of that country (Pedro) Castillo is illegally imprisoned,” clarified President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

A cartography of uprooting is exhibited in Milan

Milan. While academic research and international organizations warn about a global crisis of forced displacement caused by wars, persecutions, violence, poverty, political collapses and climate change, in the United States and Europe, immigration has become one of the main targets of the extreme right and sovereigntist discourses. Faced with this narrative, the exhibition Out of Place, organized by the Imago Mundi Foundation and presented at the Luigi Rovati Foundation in Milan, invites us to look at the phenomenon from those who experience it: refugee artists who inhabit or have inhabited 18 of the largest exile camps and settlements in the world.

Silvino Vergara Nava: Superb left

In Peru and Colombia the presidential winners are from the right. The same thing happened in Costa, Ecuador, Honduras, Bolivia and Chile. The defeated left-wing parties, among other things, justify it with Trump's influence, without considering whether the arrogance of left-wing politicians had anything to do with the defeat.

They ask to assign a lawyer to AHMSA workers

The second district court in matters of commercial bankruptcy requested the Federal Institute of Public Defender to appoint a legal advisor to collectively represent the workers of Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) and its subsidiary Minera del Norte (Minosa), as part of the companies' bankruptcy process.

The country responds with facts to Washington, and expects the same: Lazzeri

The Mexican ambassador to the United States, Roberto Lazzeri, stated yesterday that the bilateral relationship must be governed by the principle of reciprocity, understood as "a partnership between equals, in which each party keeps its word and offers certainty to the other." He maintained that Mexico “responds with facts and results, and expects the same in return.”

Producers from Durango and Zacatecas will receive certified bean seed

With the National Bean Plan, more than 18 thousand producers in Durango and Zacatecas will receive 5,300 tons of certified seed for the spring-summer 2026 agricultural cycle, reported the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader).

Rafa Márquez officially takes the helm of the Tricolor

Rafael Márquez will officially replace Javier Aguirre as technical director of the Mexican team heading to the 2030 World Cup, which will be held in Spain, Morocco and Portugal, the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) confirmed in a statement. With this decision, the FMF gave continuity to the Vasco process, which began on August 1, 2024, and to whom El Kaiser was technical assistant, in search of reaching the quarterfinal stage in the World Cup, which was last reached in 1986.

Parents from Ayotzinapa ask the Court to stop an appeal that delays justice

The defense of the families of the 43 Ayotzinapa normal students who disappeared in 2014 called on the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) to declare inadmissible the four appeals for extraordinary review, which it decided to attract last Tuesday, through which it will review, in an exceptional manner, the ruling of a collegiate court that ordered the creation of a commission of investigation into the case.

2029 Club World Cup in Mexico is possible: Sheinbaum

If there are favorable conditions for Mexico, the federal government could support the proposal of the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) to promote the 2029 Club World Cup to be held in our country, said President Claudia Sheinbaum, who added: “there is also the Women's World Cup” of soccer. He announced that when there are consolidated figures on the number of foreign visitors who came to Mexico during the World Cup, the Ministry of Tourism will present a report to reinforce the visit of foreigners to our country.

Abraham Nuncio: Sports-show and entertainment are not a priority

For some time now, governments around the world, with different emphases and social significance, seem to feel obliged to promote and finance sports, entertainment and entertainment, to the detriment of priority expenditures.

It was an overall reduction; the economy is solid: SHCP

Trade between Mexico and the United States reaches 839 billion dollars, which reflects the level of bilateral integration that makes our country the main buyer of the northern neighbor, said President Claudia Sheinbaum. "Our economy is so integrated that even with the tariffs we continue to export more to the United States and we are buying more from them. I have told President Donald Trump that we have stopped buying from Asia."

Amid ruins, Egypt thrilled Palestinian fans for 90 minutes

Hundreds of football fans in Gaza watched the World Cup round of 16 match between Argentina and Egypt amid the ruins of buildings in Nuseirat.

Trump ends ceasefire with Iran and launches bombings

Washington. Kuwait and Bahrain were the target of an Iranian offensive this morning in response to a round of bombing launched by the United States against the Islamic republic for the second consecutive day in retaliation for the attack on three oil tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier, President Donald Trump terminated the memorandum of understanding that ended the fighting last month.

The ball game aroused great interest among the conquerors

After the Conquest, the Mexica ball game or teotlachco “was considered by the Spanish authorities a practice associated with beliefs contrary to the Christian religion and, due to its close relationship with indigenous rituals, it was progressively restricted, and in some cases, punished.”

Compound used in plastics causes genetic damage in freshwater turtles

A compound used to give flexibility to plastics can damage the DNA of freshwater turtles and affect their growth, revealed a study carried out by researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Enrique Galván Ochoa: Money

To make a correct evaluation of the situation of the national economy, it is necessary to take into account the factors against it: it is in the middle of the armed conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran, and the tariff war declared by President Trump against the world, plus his refusal to extend the T-MEC for 16 years, subjecting it to 10 and with annual reviews. Still, the ship sails well. President Sheinbaum Pardo presented 12 points, of which the following are outstanding.

EU Parliament endorses the Modernized Global Agreement with Mexico

Yesterday, the European Parliament approved the Modernized Global Agreement between Mexico and the European Union and the interim trade agreement, with which the bloc of that continent concluded the process of both instruments for their entry into force. On the part of Mexico, the Senate of the Republic still needs to complete the process that corresponds to it.

Having a single health system requires tax reform: expert

The single health system in Mexico will be possible only when there is a common financing fund, which necessarily involves a fiscal reform, which is already urgent; above all, that the higher income sectors contribute more. Resources must also come from taxes on food, beverages, alcohol and tobacco, said Arantxa Colchero, researcher at the National Institute of Public Health (INSP).

They protect the tycoon's waste

US President Donald Trump traveled with a delegation of 1,400 people to Turkey, including those responsible for collecting its health waste, a standard protocol to prevent other countries from analyzing the material for health intelligence purposes, The Guardian reported. That the United States brought a large number of companions was considered a relief among member states, given that the president has at times flirted with the idea of ​​leaving the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Behind the scenes, a notable effort was made to protect the magnate from any eventuality that occurred in Ankara, the British newspaper highlighted.

The US designates Carlos Valencia as the current leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel

The United States National Anti-Terrorist Center (CNCT) identified Juan Carlos Valencia González, El 03, as the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) after the death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho, during an operation by Mexican Army troops on February 22 in the municipality of Tapalpa, Jalisco.

The spillover for the tournament will continue for the rest of the year, says Concanaco-Servytur

Although Mexico stopped participating in the World Cup, consumption will continue until the tournament concludes and also for the remainder of the year, said the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco-Servytur).

Mexico prepares “legal measures” against the US for murder of countrymen

“We cannot allow the mistreatment of our brothers in the United States,” so we are preparing “more important legal measures” to go “beyond the diplomatic notes” and the complaint before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, said President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, after another Mexican was shot dead by an agent of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) in Houston, Texas.

Trump orders to cancel US trade with Spain; Madrid sees positive links

Madrid and Ankara. Yesterday, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, ordered the immediate suspension of all trade with Spain, an allied country in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which aggravated tensions over defense spending and the war against Iran.

The bodies of 6 men and two women are located in El Bosque, Chiapas

Tapachula, Chis., The bodies of six men and two women were located yesterday in the municipality of El Bosque, located in the north of Chiapas, reported the State Attorney General's Office (FGE).

Rains cause a sinkhole in the Bienestar housing area in Veracruz

The intense rains yesterday morning caused a sinkhole at least 50 meters long and three meters wide in an area of ​​the municipality of Veracruz where a private company builds houses from the Housing for Wellbeing program.

Five are signed up to replace Laura Itzel as president of the Senate

Less than two months before the board of directors of the Senate of the Republic must be renewed, four legislators from Morena have already raised their hands to succeed Laura Itzel Castillo as president of that Chamber of Congress, and even Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín, from the PVEM, aspires to that position.

Johnson applauds actions against fuel smuggling

The United States Embassy in Mexico yesterday congratulated the Mexican government for the actions taken to combat hydrocarbon smuggling and highlighted that bilateral cooperation in the fight against crime strengthens the security and prosperity of both countries.

They call on artists to be part of the auction to support Cuba

The Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity, Mexico Chapter, and the Benny Moré Mexico-Cuba Cultural Center called on artists, collectors and the general public to join an art auction whose funds will be allocated to pediatric oncology care in Cuba.

Editorial: ICE: accountability

After Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) murdered another Mexican, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo declared that “we cannot allow the mistreatment of our brothers who are in the United States, which is why we are preparing more important legal measures, to go beyond diplomatic notes” and the complaint before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The president did not specify what the new provisions will be or if they will include going to international bodies, but announced that the details will be presented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

World Cup 2026: who invented the red and yellow cards in football (and how the idea came about)

Following the decision to annul the red card shown to American striker Folarin Balogun that caused controversy, we remind you who invented these cards in football.

Goodbye to refilling bottles daily: the water dispenser with tap that optimizes your space for 15 euros

The container has a large capacity, is made of durable plastic and its ergonomic design includes a handle that makes it easy to transport.

Ana Boga ('I always do sometimes'): “It was worth being uncomfortable if I made other mothers feel comfortable afterwards”

The Madrid actress has become a great revelation, but just two years ago she was a new mother who had no idea how to reconcile raising her son with her work in hospitality. Now it is part of ICON's annual young talent proposal

How to resolve a domestic emergency at any time

Zurich Seguros has a home assistance service operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to attend to those cases that require an immediate solution.

Justin Baldoni and his wife speak for the first time about the 'Break the Circle case': "We have had to understand why these things happen and why they are disguised as a fight for women"

The actor, who last May reached an agreement with Blake Lively to close the legal battle that had confronted them since she sued him for sexual harassment, claims to be healing and focused on his family: "When God hits the restart button is when love appears," they say in a home video published on their networks.

Two potentially serious drivers after colliding on a road in Collado Villalba (Madrid)

The accident occurred at kilometer 2 of the M-601. The injured have been transferred to the hospitals of Puerta de Hierro and La Paz.

Aliança Catalana would be the third force and together with Vox they would make up almost 30% of the Parliament, according to the CEO

The socialists maintain first place, with between 36 and 38 deputies; They are followed by ERC and Junts would lose almost half of its representation

5 black swimsuits on Amazon that are anything but boring

Designs that show that the most infallible summer basic can also have a lot of style