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So far this year, the Tax Administration Service (SAT) has identified 169 companies and 120 individuals as being under billing schemes. According to information from the agency, the number of taxpayers suspected of using false tax receipts grew 7.8 percent compared to last year.
The selection process to enter the UNAM must consider other mechanisms, beyond the admission exam, which is originally gender biased, favors certain socioeconomic and cultural sectors and “opens a fertile field for businesses such as preparation schools and others that are less legal,” said Imanol Ordorika, a researcher at the university.
Mariana Mazzucato and Lara Merling, from the Institute for Innovation with Public Purposes (IIPP), delivered the first advances of the study Transforming the State for Plan Mexico. A missions approach to sharing prosperity. The central thesis of the study, commissioned by the Mexican government more than a year ago, is that Plan Mexico has been successful in defining priorities, but it is necessary to build a State with the necessary capabilities to execute them. This study is not an academic exercise, but rather an answer to the government's question of how to boost economic functioning, ensuring that the fruits of that growth are shared socially.
Santiago. Heavy rains hit part of Chile yesterday while authorities advance emergency support measures for towns affected by floods, road closures and destruction of homes.
The Korean manufacturer Kia will invest 649 million dollars from 2026 to 2028, to produce an electric vehicle for the first time in national territory, as part of Plan Mexico, reported the Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard.
New York. Haiti registered more than 5,500 cases of gender violence in the first half of the year, most of them rapes of women and girls, the United Nations (UN) reported yesterday.
At the entrance to Ensenada, Baja California, the face of Isaac del Toro greets those who cross the low bridge of the Fondeport road junction north of the city. Painted on a 110 square meter mural, the cyclist was immortalized days after winning third place in the Tour de France, a feat that established him as a new idol of Mexican sports.
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo ruled out that there was “bad intention on the part of anyone” in the application of the UNAM bachelor's admission exam. Perhaps “they did not agree” on sufficient controls “so that no cheating could be done” with the use of technology and artificial intelligence, he maintained.
The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (CRT) categorically rejected that the proposal for General Guidelines for the Protection of Audience Rights constitutes a censorship mechanism.
On Sunday, along the Paseo de la Reforma, the flags of Mexico and Cuba advanced accompanied by the same wind. The contingent traveled 2.6 kilometers from the Hemicycle to Juárez to the old United States embassy, in a march against the blockade and in defense of Cuban sovereignty. It could seem like a circumstantial protest. It was, in reality, the reappearance of a political memory that has crossed the gulf for two centuries.
Mazatlán, Sin., Some 150 families lost their assets as a result of the torrential rains in the port yesterday morning, which left 161 liters of water per square meter, with floods that reached more than a meter in height in the Urías ejido. The emergency caused severe material damage, roads collapsed, so the Mexican Army activated Plan DN-III-E.
Banamex and BBVA, two of the main financial groups operating in Mexico, reported yesterday on a series of changes in their boards of directors: the first said goodbye to Ignacio Deschamps and the second announced the retirement of Jaime Serra Puche.
The general law on the rights of indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples regulates multiple and very diverse issues related to indigenous communities and peoples, from lands, territory, cultural heritage, electoral issues, consultation, traditional medicine, employment, income generation, economy, supply, marketing, food self-sufficiency, housing, community work, artisanal roads, infrastructure, climate change, justice plans, media, traditional medicine and midwives, community assemblies, etc. A true miscellany. There are 453 articles and 11 transitory ones.
New York. K-pop BTS announced that they will not present their music for consideration at the next edition of the 2027 Grammy Awards.
At some point taxpayers will have to make a decision: cut the pension of the elderly or continue supporting the electoral bureaucracy, whose spending has gotten out of control. The resources will not be enough. Now it is increased by the subsidy to two new parties: Somos México and PAZ. Last night the National Electoral Institute, chaired by Guadalupe Taddei (#LadyAcordeon), was preparing to approve a budget for next year for 36 billion pesos. It does not include the Federal Electoral Tribunal, whose budget this year is 3,749 million and it is not clear if it includes the state electoral institutes. In that case, it would probably reach 50 billion. It is up to the Chamber of Deputies to approve it. In the last election he gave him a snip of 8 billion pesos.
Due to the wear and tear of almost two decades of strike and the economic crisis that has hit their families, workers from Sombrerete, Zacatecas, and Taxco, Guerrero, affiliated with the National Mining Union, will march today in Mexico City to demand a definitive solution to the labor conflicts that keep their sources of employment paralyzed.
Holy Cross. The prosecutor's office of the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz issued an arrest warrant against former President Evo Morales and other people on charges related to terrorism, armed uprising against State security and more crimes in the context of anti-government protests and road blockades, which paralyzed the Andean country for more than 50 days in May and June.
Former workers at Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) warned that they will request the dismissal of the bankruptcy trustee, Víctor Manuel Aguilera, if the steel company's auction is delayed again or a new extension is granted, since – in their opinion – his actions have been marked by irregularities and non-compliance that have lengthened the process.
A well-known brewery, which promised free product to its customers when the president of the United States, Donald Trump, died, faces the revocation of its license to sell alcohol.
After the inauguration of Keiko Fujimori as president of Peru, the Mexican government is in talks with its Peruvian counterpart, since "we do not want the rupture of relations," said President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo yesterday.
With the beginning of consultations on the guidelines issued by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission to guarantee the protection of the rights of audiences, President Claudia Sheinbaum defended that the measure only establishes that the companies themselves will define a defender of said audiences, as a way for viewers and listeners who consider it to file complaints.
Buenos Aires. The former president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, decided to raise her case before the United Nations Human Rights Committee to analyze whether during the judicial process to which she was subjected for the so-called Road Case, for which she was sentenced to six years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office, the guarantees established by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights were respected.
A subject identified with the initials JMGG, known as El Miky or El 086, identified as the head of a criminal cell of the Sinaloa cartel that operates in Oaxaca, mainly in the Costa and Central Valleys regions, was arrested the previous Monday, reported the entity's attorney general, Bernardo Rodríguez Alamilla.
La Paz, BCS., The El Saltito Second Stage project, promoted by the Ve Por Más bank, which aims to clear more than 109 hectares of forest land in the La Fortuna subdelegation of the municipality of La Paz, for the construction of a private residential tourist development, has generated rejection from citizens and environmental activists.
New York. Donald Trump's government banned the importation of humanoid and quadruped robots into the United States for national security reasons.
Even before being shown in movie theaters, the film version inspired by Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey had already reaped its first fruits. Just the preview of the trailers and some interviews with the actresses and actors were enough to unleash a kind of massive criticism from historians dedicated to the study of Hellas. I highlight here two of its central targets. In the film, the Homeric character of Helen, daughter of Zeus and ruler of Sparta, whose kidnapping leads to the Trojan War, is portrayed by Afro-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong'o. Historians such as David Hanson criticize Nolan's work for having questioned Helena's whiteness. In the 2004 version of The Iliad (under the title Troy), Diane Kruger plays the role of the Spartan queen; and in 1956, it was Rossana Podestà's turn to do it, exuberant blondes with whom Hollywood built the modern archetype of Helena. When Hanson defends the election of Lupita Nyong'o, what he defends is not a historical error, but the very structure of the identity that sustains his own discourse. Well, in which text of Homer is the equation “beauty = whiteness” inscribed? The answer is: in no text in the sense of an original writing, but in an ideological construction that has been naturalized as “evidence.” The Homeric text, on the other hand, does not contain such a predicate; It only contains an undecidability about chromaticism, because Hellas was not a racial essence, but a dissemination of islands, of diasporas, of mixtures. The Hellenic/barbarian opposition, which lately became decisive in the 3rd century BC, is already an economy of difference that cannot be retroprojected to the Homeric world without committing hermeneutical violence. That is, the distinction between Hellenes and barbarians (those who did not speak Greek) did become decisive and definitive. There is no doubt that historians wear the clothing of ideology like their own skin, without even realizing the prejudices that inhabit them.
Although the number of Mexicans experiencing food insecurity has been reduced – 8.6 million, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) – 21.6 million still suffer from it, said President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
Paris. The DJ Kavinsky, famous for his song Nightcall, was found dead at his home in Paris, authorities said yesterday, paying tribute to “one of the most unique voices” of the French electro scene.
The Complaints and Denunciations Commission of the INE ordered the leader of the PRI, Alejandro Moreno (Alito), to download different messages spread on his social networks and those of the party, which include expressions such as narco-government to refer to Morena.
The federal Ministry of Public Education (SEP) instructed its counterpart in the state of Puebla to initiate the corresponding administrative procedure and suspend the activities of the Ignacio Zaragoza Militarized Academy (AMIZ), located in the capital of the entity, because the “militarized education” model lacks legal support in the country. The head of the Legal Affairs and Regulation Unit of the SEP, Euripides Flores Pacheco, maintained that the Constitution and the General Education Law do not contemplate the provision of educational services under military, military or similar modalities, and emphasized that it is “absolutely prohibited” to operate schools with any of those names.
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) yesterday installed the technical commission to review the exam procedure and the results of the 2026 bachelor's entrance selection contest in the face of irregularities during this edition.
Sergio Enrique Ruiz Tlapanco, El Tlapa or Z-44, identified as the founder of Los Zetas, was sentenced to 29 years and nine months in prison for the crimes of organized crime and carrying a firearm for the exclusive use of the armed forces. The Attorney General's Office of the Republic provided sufficient evidence to convict the alleged person in charge of the operations of the Gulf-Zetas cartel in Tabasco and Campeche, as well as in northern Chiapas and southern Veracruz, and of a cell of this organization in Guatemala. The agent of the Federal Public Ministry, assigned to the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, carried out the ministerial work and after a series of procedures, managed to get the judicial authority to also impose a fine of 692,857 pesos on the convicted person. Ruiz Tlapanco, who is in the Federal Center for Social Rehabilitation Number 4 Noroeste, located in Tepic, Nayarit, was detained by elements of the Army in September 2009, in the La Hacienda neighborhood, first section, in the city of Puebla. In this action, firearms, chargers, cartridges, documentation, communication and computing equipment, various objects and vehicles were seized.
Breaking barriers and stereotypes is the purpose of the Lebanese Film Festival in Mexico (Fecil), whose third edition will take place from August 21 to 23 at the Lebanese Center.
In Isabel La Católica, at its intersection with the Republic of Uruguay, in the Historic Center, a strong fire consumed a warehouse located on the third floor of a building, which stored backpacks, plastics and suitcases. Emergency services put out the incident without any injuries being reported.
After the pause in hostilities in the Middle East, oil prices fell again, losing nearly seven dollars yesterday, in the face of efforts to reach an agreement that would allow reopening the Strait of Hormuz, oil futures.
After the historic result of Mexican cyclist Isaac del Toro in the Tour de France, president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo once again highlighted his performance and expressed her willingness to receive him at the National Palace. At the same time, he congratulated the Mexican athletes who lead the medal table at the 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games.
Inhabitants of at least four communities in San Juan Guichivovi, municipality of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, yesterday blocked federal highway 190 for at least eight hours, near the Malatengo bridge, to demand that the Federal Electricity Commission pay fair compensation for the damage to the land where the state company's towers were installed.
After expressing her confidence that the National Autonomous University of Mexico will move forward in the conflict generated by the irregularities detected in the administration of the bachelor's admission exam, President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her conference that "it is important that it be resolved soon to be able to give certainty to all young people who want to enter the UNAM."
At the end of August, Kenia Lechuga will face the most important commitment of its season: the World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam.
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.