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The United States ambassador to Mexico, Ronald Johnson, stated yesterday that criminal organizations “operate across borders” and that this condition constitutes “one of their greatest vulnerabilities,” in response to a previous message from the Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch.
Fernando Cerimedo, co-founder and partner of the disinformation platform La Derecha Diario, was arrested yesterday in Bolivia after an attack against his ex-partner, Nadia Beller. She accuses him of attempted feminicide by hanging during their relationship and claims that Cerimedo sent the hitmen who shot him three times at the exit of a hotel. Although the administration of President Rodrigo Paz expressed solidarity with the victim and demanded “a serious and thorough investigation,” she considers the government to be “the main interested party in silencing her” due to its knowledge of acts of corruption related to the president's wife.
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo indicated that in the massive Fists of Transformation boxing class, which took place last weekend, boxers who receive support as part of the Youth Building the Future program, and those who are in charge of teaching the classes of this sport, participated.
Ediciones Era announced yesterday its definitive closure due to the economic unviability of continuing its operations. In a statement addressed to clients and friends, the publishing house announced that "66 years after the publication of the first Ediciones Era book, we find ourselves in the need to recognize that the book market has changed so much that it does not allow us to live off the sales of our books. The network of bookstores that existed before the pandemic and that guaranteed our subsistence disappeared, to the point that sales plummeted to be barely 25 percent of what they were before."
During his life, Gabriel García Márquez, considered by many the greatest writer in the Spanish language of all time, believed that One Hundred Years of Solitude was impossible to adapt to the seventh art. “The novel, unlike cinema, leaves room for the reader's creativity, allowing him to imagine the characters, settings and situations as he perceives them,” he told an interviewer in the 1980s. However, after his death in 2014, his heirs acted quickly to acquire the rights to the book for an ambitious Netflix series, the second part of which premieres today, before the final feature film arriving at the end of the month.
The cancellation of the US visa of Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, former Secretary of Organization of Morena and now a candidate for a deputy for that party, joins other cases in which this immigration document is used by the US government as an instrument of political beating, sowing suspicion and political interference, as President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo pointed out in her morning conference yesterday.
Two planes of the Mexican Air Force left yesterday with the first 854 supplies (19.5 tons) that the Mexican government sent to help the Colombian victims of Monday's earthquake, reported President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who pointed out that this support was agreed upon by the foreign ministries of both countries.
For the mothers and fathers of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa normal students, “there is a drop of hope in a sea of mysteries” with the arrest and connection to criminal proceedings of the former governor of Guerrero Ángel Aguirre Rivero for allegedly destroying evidence, said the Tlachinollan Mountain Human Rights Center.
Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Lakers will be sold to Bob Iger, former CEO of Disney, and investor Joshua Kushner in an operation that values the iconic NBA team at $12.5 billion. The sale, announced yesterday by ESPN and which has not yet been officially confirmed, would represent a record price for the powerful basketball league.
A control judge assigned to the justice center of the maximum security federal prison of El Altilplano determined to link the former governor of Guerrero Ángel Heladio Aguirre Rivero to criminal proceedings for the crime of forced disappearance in the case of the 43 normalistas of Ayotzinapa. The judge considered that the evidence presented by the defense of the former state president does not discredit the allegations that Aguirre Rivero ordered the hiding and destruction of evidence of what happened on the night of September 26, 2014 in Iguala, when municipal police and members of organized crime disappeared 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Normal Rural School.
The International Horror Film Festival, Macabro FICH, announced, in a statement shared on its social networks, that it withdrew the film Ice Cream Man, by American director Eli Roth, from its official programming for its 25th edition.
Since July of last year, the Pew Research Center released a study that reveals an increase in young people using platforms like ChatGPT for emotional support. Users of this type of chatbot doubled when compared to the summer of 2023, with differentiated use according to each age sector.
Donald Trump is overwhelmed by all the atrocities he does and says, but in the case of his illegal war against Iran (defeated along with the genocidal Benjamin Netanyahu) his situation is already astonishing, in addition to the fact that all his triumphant announcements about the “conflict” – equally false and reckless – are denied by Tehran. Among the most recent, but not the last, was the suggestion of “demanding” that the Persian nation pay “compensation for all the people they have killed over time.”
Colombia suffered yesterday the largest earthquake in a decade, leaving at least 132 dead, 570 injured, 86 buildings collapsed, thousands of homes damaged and dozens of health and educational centers affected. The earthquake occurred at 7:34 a.m., had its epicenter in the department of Chocó, on the Pacific coast, and caused serious damage in the eastern and southeastern region of the country.
Nice. The Dutch Demi Vollering won the Women's Tour de France yesterday for the second time in her career by winning alone in the last stage in Nice, while the Mexican Romina Hinojosa came in 91st place to finish her first participation in the Grande Boucle.
Although it is shamelessly favorable to Tel Aviv, Donald Trump's most recent plan for Gaza was rejected yesterday by the Israeli Prime Minister, the fugitive from the International Criminal Court Benjamin Netanyahu, who stated that the army of the regime he heads "will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas has disarmed" and has renounced "heavy weapons, light weapons, all types of weapons (...) A genuine disarmament, not a fictitious disarmament." In contrast, the US president's proposal stipulates that the withdrawal of forces from Tel Aviv and the disarmament of the Palestinian organization must be simultaneous processes.
By announcing that by 2027 it will need resources of 36.1 billion pesos, the National Electoral Institute (INE) could be requesting a higher figure to then negotiate it and reach a final agreement, considered the president of the Budget and Public Accounts Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Merilyn Gómez Pozos (Morena).
The federal government's proposal to establish general guidelines for the Protection of Hearing Rights has sparked a virulent reaction among large corporate media, right-wing politicians and parabusiness organizations misidentified as “civil society.” These actors have unleashed an intense disinformation campaign with which they seek to convince citizens that the authorities intend to impose prior censorship mechanisms, regulate content and reserve the power to establish the truth.
WHO recommendations for healthy growth during the first five years of life.
In addition to the deluge of news about wars (including, for example, that the United States dropped a 2,000-pound megabomb on a family's home in Iran, killing a child and his two parents), interventions, the climate of fear over operations by armed and masked men hunting “illegal” migrants (detaining, among others, an emergency room nurse for the color of her skin) and more news that children continue to be separated from their immigrant parents and several minors, including a six-year-old baby months, are caged in detention centers, censorship of history and literature, efforts to suppress the minority opposition vote, new outbreaks of diseases previously under control as a result of the disastrous management of public health by the government, more corruption at unprecedented levels and with a long history of the presidential family (a bank has just disclosed that it closed some 300 accounts of the Trump Organization a few years ago due to detection of possible money laundering), since the only thing missing was even more worrying news: the closure of more and more cantinas and the collapse of the wine industry. Oh, and pieces of artifacts, some weighing more than a ton, are falling from the skies.
Mexico City will host a local version of Woodstockhousen, a festival that has taken place in locations as unconventional as the music it has sought to spread since 2013.
The Mexican U-23 women's team yesterday not only secured its place in the semifinals of the Central American and Caribbean Games Santo Domingo 2026: it did so with a display of power that made it clear why it arrived as the great favorite at the event.
A control judge issued preventive detention against Ramón Ángel Álvarez Ayala, El R1, identified as the intellectual author of the murder of the municipal president of Uruapan, Michoacán, Carlos Manzo, and leader of one of the most violent cells of the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel (CJNG).
The warning about the harmful use of electronic devices in childhood was raised at least 10 years ago. Later, in 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized video game use disorder in the international classification of diseases (ICD-11), while excessive activity on social networks or excessive Internet browsing is considered “problematic use.” In Mexico, it is a serious and urgent matter, warned Deimos Aguilar Jiménez, a psychiatrist specialized in children and adolescents.
The Mexican women's basketball team stood on a podium at the Central American and Caribbean Games for the first time in 12 years, winning the silver medal in this edition held in Santo Domingo – the 250th of the season for the delegation. The tricolor quintet fell 57-44 against Puerto Rico in the match that was played yesterday at the Banreservas Arena.
Toluca, Méx., Since the creation of the Special Unit for the Investigation of Crimes of Dispossession and Against the Security of Property and Possession of Real Estate, of the Attorney General's Office of the State of Mexico (FGJEM), in April 2025, the number of complaints received for this crime has increased by 9 percent, to the point that in one year 7,018 files have already been opened. investigation.
Tapachula, Chis., Migrants of various nationalities held at the Siglo XXI station of the National Migration Institute (INM), in this city on the border with Guatemala, rioted the night before to demand their release since, they claim, they suffer abuse within the facility.
Although the local Congress approved reforms to the Civic Culture Law to toughen sanctions against those who throw garbage in public spaces, open-air dumps continue to invade streets, medians and green areas.
As a priority for the next period of sessions, the Chamber of Deputies plans to approve a reform proposed by the Executive Branch to the Federal Copyright Law, in order to define the shared responsibility of Internet providers for the trafficking of illegal content carried out by their users.
The eradication of the cattle screwworm in Mexico could be completed within a period of between five and seven years, once the production of sterile flies accelerates at the new Metapa plant in Domínguez, Chiapas, and with the future operation of another one being built by the United States, said Francisco Javier Calderón Elizalde, head of the National Agri-Food Health, Safety and Quality Service (Senasica).
By sponsoring the new generation of midshipmen, the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, recognized the Secretary of the Navy as a key player in the fight against organized crime and highlighted that in this administration, the naval institution has seized more than 80 tons of cocaine at sea and has contributed to reducing homicides in the country by 48 percent.
Being an aviator pilot in Mexico is a career with high technical and professional demands. It requires an investment of up to 2 million pesos, passing strict medical filters and dealing with a competitive market at the beginning.
The crisis over the admission process for the 2026 degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) seems to be far from over. To the complaints of applicants who reported irregularities in the first virtual entrance exam, are added the increasingly frequent complaints of selected students, who refuse to undergo a second evaluation and this Monday will demonstrate in front of the Rectory Tower.
Mateo Chávez has more and more confidence to stand out on European courts. The young tricolor had a great performance and even collaborated in a goal so that his team, AZ Alkmaar, celebrated the first title of this season by winning the Dutch Super Cup after beating PSV Eindhoven 4-0.
San Miguel de Allende, Gto., The tour of The Wild Order does not end when you leave the room where Ray Smith's hybrid creatures coexist. In the adjacent space, pieces by Pedro Coronel, Ricardo Martínez, Javier Marín, Dr. Lakra and other artists representative of different stages of Mexican art are exhibited.
Political commentator E.J. Dion wrote an article last week about the problems that the Democratic Party has regarding its ideological definition in the context of the campaign for the elections in November. The reason for his comment lies in the statements of several successful candidates in the primary elections, in the sense of their social democratic vocation. The expectation has to do with the need for a moderate path to prevail “more in line” with the characteristics of the majority in American society. For them, the electoral campaign should focus on this order of priorities: famine in general, mainly that experienced by those with lower incomes; the draconian immigration policy; and in the clumsy foreign policy decisions of the current administration.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, yesterday shared an article by conservative presenter and commentator Bill O'Reilly, published on March 11, in which he maintains that "Mexico is not a friend of the United States" and criticizes President Claudia Sheinbaum for her strategy against drug trafficking cartels.
U.S. borrowing rates hit their highest level since June 2007. Fears of inflation catapulted the yield on the 30-year U.S. bond above a 19-year high of 5.27 percent on Friday.
Authorities from the Government Secretariat informed street merchant leaders who set up shop in Alameda Central that as of this Monday each group will only be allowed to place seven of its members, that is, with the measure it is expected that there will be around 77 stalls and no more than 600, according to estimates from some vendors interviewed.
London. Criticism against Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, continues two days after withdrawing the controversial proposal to partially privatize the World Cup. Now, political leaders, clubs, leagues and specialists question his leadership at the head of football's governing body.
Since the beginning of the war of aggression by the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28, launched treacherously and with perfidy while Washington and Tehran were holding nuclear negotiations, the conflict has gone through different phases and has fragmented and expanded throughout the Middle East. Instigated by the war criminal and fugitive from international justice, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump initially approached the stealth attack of beheading and terror from a transactional and aesthetic logic: bomb, obtain the image of the Iranian collapse and withdraw in a couple of days (a replica of the New Venezuela operation). However, despite the unlimited violence – the destruction of critical dual-use infrastructure and the selective assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a group of generals and nuclear scientists, and at least 200 civilians dead and 750 wounded – there was no regime change or capitulation. On the contrary, Iran counterattacked and, since then, through a disciplined, methodical and millimeter-precise asymmetric war of attrition, which hit and “blinded” the sophisticated military (and paramilitary) bases and intelligence and communications nodes of the Pentagon's Central Command (CentCom) in the Persian Gulf theater of operations (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Kurdistan), it has set the pace of the war and undermined the myth of American power projection.
Yosthan N, El Diente de Oro, an alleged member of the Tren de Aragua criminal group, according to the Attorney General's Office (FGJ), was linked to proceedings for the crime of human trafficking in the form of sexual exploitation for allegedly demanding money from a sex worker to let her carry out her activity in the Benito Juárez mayor's office.
The Tlallipan garden has become a meeting point for visitors from different regions and even from other states of the Republic, who come to see the space and take advantage of it as a place of recreation.
Physical investment in the first half of this year remains 7.9 percent below that registered in the same period last year, although the gap has been narrowing and only in June was a rebound of 56.2 percent at an annual rate, reported the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.
Washington. US President Donald Trump confirmed that the US has intervened to support the Japanese yen, saying it is a “sign of friendship” that will also be “positive for the global economy”.
Oil prices fell today as Asian markets opened after President Donald Trump said a deal is close.
There is something about this America that forces its fans to speak in a low voice, to look at the Liga Mx calendar with caution, as if they had lost the habit of claiming the lead. The change did not happen overnight, but its effects are visible. The administrative restructuring brought with it cold numbers in finances, a locker room that stopped being filled with international figures to make way for young people from basic forces, capable of resolving long-suffering matches like the one yesterday at the Banorte stadium against Santos (3-0).