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Beginner I
Collectives gathered in the municipality of Nicolás Ruiz, Chiapas, paid tribute to Jan de Vos, 15 years after the death of the Belgian historian based in San Cristóbal de las Casas. De Vos transcribed the primary titles of his people, thereby supporting the recovery of historical memory, the defense of their territory and the recognition of their ancestral roots.
The partner countries of the Trade Agreement of Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC) will reach a consensus to renew the agreement, since eliminating it completely would be a mistake and too costly politically, considered Robert Lighthizer, who was a United States trade representative in Donald Trump's first term.
Havana. The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, received his counterpart Gustavo Petro at the Palace of the Revolution, on the Colombian president's last international trip before handing over office, and who showed his opposition to "a war in the Caribbean", amid threats from the United States to launch a military attack against that territory.
I don't know if any of the famous think-tanks that drafted the Santa Fe Documents will still be alive and capable, although in reality the tanks have never thought, to now relaunch the ideas that they poured out to the world in the 80s. The objective: to achieve the victory of Ronald Reagan to the presidency of the United States and, with it, give a radical change to Carter's policy. What was defined as the end of containment of socialist advance began, replaced by roll-back, that is, moving the field back and eliminating the USSR. Rubio's document has the same ideas, fit and objective: eliminate the Cuban government, based on fragmentation and internal confrontation, caused by economic, political and media measures.
Mexican avocado exports to the United States maintained a positive trend during the first four months of 2026, registering a growth of 35 percent compared to the same period in 2025, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader).
The Secretary of National Defense, Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, reiterated that since 2008 this agency has nothing to do with “militarized schools.”
Madrid. At least 57 bodies were recovered on the coast of Ceuta by the Spanish authorities, while they try to return to normality after a day of chaos in which the government of the autonomous city estimates that up to 50 thousand people entered in a coordinated manner. The president of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, traveled to the area to face the crisis, together with the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and reported that the majority of the migrants who entered the day before have already voluntarily returned to their country, a total of 48,300.
After a week of competitions, Mexico remains the leader by surpassing 200 medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo 2026, with a great performance in the swimming events, where Marcus Reyes and Celia Pulido stood out with regional records.
Yesterday, FIFA announced the cancellation of its controversial proposal to sell participations in the World Cup and other tournaments to private investors after the resounding rejection by the confederations of Europe (UEFA), Asia (AFC) and North America, Central America and the Caribbean (Concacaf), as well as the resignation of Carlos Cordeiro, main advisor to the entity's president, Gianni Infantino.
With a view to ensuring the long-term conservation of tuna – yellowfin, bluefin, skipjack and bigeye – the temporary ban on fishing will consist of two annual periods of 64 days.
Residents of Lomas de Chapultepec, from the Miguel Hidalgo mayor's office, and the Radar collective (Red en Alerta para la Democracia, el Ambiente y la Representación) carried out a “citizen closure” of the Monte Everest property number 705, where they intend to install a restaurant-bar covered by a land use certificate for acquired rights that, they claim, was issued illegally.
Oil prices rose more than a dollar on Friday and posted a 24 percent gain in July, their biggest monthly increase since March, as reports that some tankers were forced to turn around in the Strait of Hormuz led traders to reevaluate shipping flows through that route.
Naco, Son., The operator Ferromex, a subsidiary of Grupo México, must assume the environmental remediation derived from the spill that occurred after the derailment of a train in the border municipality of Naco, reported the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), pointing out that there were more than 70 thousand liters of sodium hydrosulfide – that is, 11 thousand liters more than previously reported – that ended up in the bed of a stream in Sonora.
As part of the report he offered on the arrest of Rafael Ángel Álvarez, El R1, the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, said that at the request of his son, Francisco N, this alleged drug trafficker had ordered the murder of the well-known influencer Valeria Márquez.
Camp David. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, yesterday described as an “extraordinary achievement” the growing influence that the United States has achieved over Latin America and the Caribbean during the second term of President Donald Trump.
Despite the prohibition issued by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) on July 29, so that in Mexico no school, academy or institute, public or private, provide basic or upper secondary education services under the name or military or militarized modality, summer courses with a clear military orientation remain in force.
Jan Younis. Hamas affirmed yesterday that the first step to implement the phased disarmament agreement in Gaza, announced the day before by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, is the commitment by Israel to stop killing Palestinians and end the attacks, but pointed out that this will face many obstacles and could take "a long time" to materialize.
London. The airline conglomerate IAG – owner of the British British Airways and the Spanish Iberia – yesterday reported a 16 percent drop in its second quarter profits, weighed down by rising fuel costs and weak travel demand related to the Middle East conflict.
Acts of vandalism to a Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) pipeline adjacent to the Añil Storage and Dispatch Terminal (TAD) in Iztacalco, presumably with the purpose of installing a clandestine intake, caused a fuel leak that was already controlled by personnel from the state company.
The new album by Gal Costa (1945-2022) is the recovery of a live concert held on May 22, 2003 at the Castro Alves theater in Salvador de Bahía, the birthplace of who went down in history as one of the most beautiful voices on the face of the Earth, full of warmth, tenderness, intensity and with perfect tuning, qualities difficult to find in any other singer on the planet.
The Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, through the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (Imcine), presented the balance of support for the national film and audiovisual industry during 2026, where support grew 25.6 percent compared to last year.
Cuernavaca, Mor., The security crisis facing Cuautla was the result of the abandonment of the municipal authorities and insufficient attention from the State government, a situation that caused the loss of citizen confidence in the institutions and favored the growth of impunity, stated José Luis Rodríguez Díaz de León, undersecretary of Criminal Policy, Liaison and Civil Protection of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), and in charge of supervising the Cuautla Plan, implemented by the federal government in the area. to reinforce security in the demarcation and address the causes of violence in the municipality.
Nine months before the National Code of Civil and Family Procedures comes into force, which would guarantee people with disabilities full recognition of their legal capacity, only four states have declared this ordinance, legislators and specialists on the subject warned.
For a few months to date, Ukraine has managed to make the Kremlin's "special military operation" perceived in the European part of Russia, where 77 percent of the country's population resides and its infrastructure is concentrated, as something that occurs not only beyond its borders, with the exception of the neighboring regions that were the first to realize it, and which brings many misfortunes in its own territory.
In a joint operation by the Mexican Customs Agency and security corporations, including the National Guard and the Secretariats of National Defense and Citizen Security and Protection, yesterday a shipment of 240 candies in the form of gummies, mixed with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a cannabis compound, was seized at the Toluca airport.
Guadalajara, Jal., Neighbors of the Mirador de San Isidro neighborhood, in Zapopan, maintain a sit-in in the vicinity of a 12,832 square meter property in that Jalisco district to express their disagreement with the construction of 10 towers with capacity for 200 apartments for police officers, in an area that, they claim, functions as a natural water recharge.
The decision of the National Electoral Institute (INE) to prohibit the national president of the PRI, Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, from referring to Morena as a narco party, was celebrated by the cherries, who questioned the moral authority of the tricolor to use that type of adjectives, while PRI legislators warned that in this way the political debate is censored.
New York. The El Niño climate phenomenon, which is intensifying in the Pacific, “fans a planet already on fire” and drags the world into “unknown territory,” warned yesterday the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres.
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo agreed with members of section 22 of Oaxaca, attached to the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE), to receive them on August 13 at 11 a.m. in the National Palace, after a group of teachers, led by the general secretary of the union, Yenny Aracely Pérez Martínez, requested yesterday a work table to address the pending issues with the teaching profession.
The rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas, announced the recommendations of the Technical Commission for the Review of the 2026 Degree Admission Process, given the irregularities detected in the admission test that was carried out virtually for the first time. These suggestions, accepted by the rector, consist of "verifying the results obtained by carrying out a control exam", which will be applied "in person, under the most convenient format to be able to process it as soon as possible, with different versions that are sufficient for the number of shifts and applicants."
Federal authorities dealt a new blow to the gangs dedicated to fuel theft in Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) pipelines, by dismantling two cells with a presence in the municipalities of Chimalhuacán, Ecatepec, Jaltenco, Nextlalpan, Tecámac and Tonanitla, in the state of Mexico. In addition, they seized more than 47 thousand liters of gas from 11 properties and caused economic damage to criminal groups of more than 165 million pesos. Likewise, they arrested 17 alleged members of these organizations.
The musician, composer and founder of La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata, Javier Martín del Campo Muriel, better known as Javis, died yesterday at the age of 75, his official Instagram account reported, without giving the causes of death.
Given the public complaints of cases of property dispossession in the country's capital, the College of Notaries of Mexico City offered support to both citizens and the competent authorities in strengthening the mechanisms for attention and prevention of this crime, which has particularly affected older adults and sectors in conditions of social vulnerability.
The results obtained by Mexican athletes in different international competitions during recent weeks "have to do with the discipline, the training of the young people who are succeeding in the world today. Also with pride," said President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
Among the countless lies that he spreads daily, Donald Trump assures that the US economy “is advancing like never before, it is booming and we are doing very well.” However, reality denies this no matter how much it presumes non-existent "successes", and one of the indicators that does show a constant rise is that related to citizen rejection and its negative evaluation of the true result of its declining level of well-being derived from the economic "program" of the orange tycoon, which, to begin with, translates into loss of employment and purchasing power, as well as rising inflation.
The Attorney General's Office (FGR) will define whether to investigate the complaints made by Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán – in 1993, before an agent of the then Attorney General's Office – and Felipe Calderón – on social networks – about alleged links between the former governor of Baja California, Ernesto Ruffo Appel, and the Arellano Félix family, said President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
Alejandra Valencia's life moves between two arcs: the sporting arc and the violin arc. Although they seem very different, both worlds require the same things: discipline, sensitivity and a connection with the bow he holds in his hands.
In the context of the accusations to the UNAM for the anomalies detected in the last entrance exam at the undergraduate level, the College of Directors of Faculties and Schools of the highest house of studies expressed its full support for the decisions adopted by the rector Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas, such as the determination to integrate the technical commission to review the process.
With the abstention of the National Action (PAN) and Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) parties, the Foreign Relations Commission of the Chamber of Deputies yesterday approved a statement condemning the acts of violence against Mexican migrants in the United States, which have caused the death of 17 Mexicans since the beginning of the current government of Donald Trump.
Yesterday, the Senate Commission for Gender Equality approved the critical route for the analysis of the initiative that proposes issuing the General Law to Prevent, Investigate and Punish the Crime of Femicide.
The security cabinet reported that it will review the arrest of Felipe Lomelí, a fruit seller who was apprehended in the city of Aguascalientes by personnel from the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), for allegedly committing crimes against health.
A photograph in which two Israeli military women appear posing next to a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner was spread on social networks and sparked great outrage on the Internet.
Gilda Susana Lozoya Austin, sister of former Pemex director Emilio Lozoya, promoted a new amparo trial after denouncing the leak of confidential information, as well as photographs and videos that federal authorities took during her arrest.
Zurich. FIFA opened a disciplinary file against the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and its teams for several alleged infractions committed during the 2026 World Cup, including the display of a flag that claimed sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands.
Migrants cause “so much fear to the American right because they have been the ones who democratized and transformed” that country, said David Brooks, correspondent and columnist for La Jornada. The reporter, distinguished by the 2026 Maria Moors Cabot Prize with a special mention, will receive a tribute at Columbia University on October 8.
Tokyo. Sony is expected to be one of the main beneficiaries of the launch of Grand Theft Auto (GTA) VI, but the highly anticipated video game comes at a time when the PlayStation maker is facing rising memory chip prices.