A cartel tortured Julio: The US denied his family asylum and wants to send them to a third country
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·6 Sept 2026
Julio thought that he had found his dream job. He was a driver for a wealthy family in Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city.
The new Arctic route is redrawing the economic and geopolitical map
El País Englishby Ignacio Fariza ,Belén Carreño·6 Sept 2026
On August 26 and August 29, in the bustling port cities of Qingdao and Busan, located in China and South Korea respectively, two medium-sized cargo ships cast off.
Miami’s Venezuelan community demands answers from lawmakers over ICE detentions
El País Englishby Abel Fernández·6 Sept 2026
Humberto Castro, a 59-year-old Venezuelan, was driving to work as usual from his home in Doral, where he has lived for eight years, when he was detained by agents from U.S.
Do running, swimming, and cycling require the same effort and produce the same effects?
El País Englishby Miguel Angel Goméz Ruano·5 Sept 2026
As summer draws to a close it’s common to start the process of getting in shape, whether with a family member or a group of friends.
The Ozempic personality, or how extreme thinness kills pleasure: ‘It robbed me of my usual optimism’
El País Englishby Carolina Escutia Román·5 Sept 2026
“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels,” was a phrase popularized by Kate Moss. In a 2009 interview, she recounted how she kept the sentence written on a note above the refrigerator in the house...
Young Chileans are turning away from the Church: Tarot, reiki and astrology fuel a new spirituality
El País Englishby Arturo Galarce·5 Sept 2026
When Gabriela Strahalm was 18, in 2008, she turned to tarot cards for the first time. Her mother, she recalls, was struggling with alcohol abuse, and they had already spoken with a psychiatrist...
Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The most important thing for Mexico is to stop being just a low-cost manufacturer for US companies’
El País Englishby Sonia Corona·5 Sept 2026
Mariana Mazzucato, 58, fondly recalls the year she spent in Mexico as an exchange student in 1989.
Argentina’s Milei wants women to have more children while he cuts support for families
El País Englishby Delfina Torres·5 Sept 2026
From the stage of a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentine President Javier Milei recently took aim at one of his recurring targets: women, whom he blames for the decline in birth rates that...
From a taqueria to a café: The California businesses linked to relatives of ‘El Mencho’
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·5 Sept 2026
Luck turned against Marín Oseguera Cervantes in June 2013. Filing for bankruptcy in a California court, he said he had $117,000 in debt and only $38 in his pocket.
Dani Bensky, Epstein survivor: ‘The United States has failed spectacularly in this case’
El País Englishby Hannah Slack·5 Sept 2026
Since she was a child, Dani Bensky, 39, dreamed of stepping onto a stage and performing. Ballet was her passion.
US military campaign in Latin America enters a new phase after a year of strikes on alleged drug-running boats
El País Englishby Macarena Vidal Liy·5 Sept 2026
A fast boat carrying 11 people huddled aboard was crossing the Caribbean Sea from Venezuela on September 2 of last year. A missile blew it apart. Nine occupants died instantly.
Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy case after jury deadlocks
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·4 Sept 2026
The legal drama surrounding Lindsay Clancy, broadcast live for the past six weeks and followed passionately by people around the world, entered a new chapter on Friday after the 12 jurors failed to...
The hummingbirds that hold 80 years of pollution in their feathers
El País Englishby Mariana Mastache-Maldonado·4 Sept 2026
Hummingbirds molt at least three times throughout their lives. And each shedding of feathers enables these birds to perform their characteristic hovering flight — that ability to float without...
Reality was worse than ‘Zoolander’: the parody that predicted the influencer world 25 years ago
El País Englishby Juanjo Villalba·4 Sept 2026
A few days ago, a crowd of young people gathered beside Barcelona’s Arc de Triomf to take part in an event as new as it was unsettling.
GRN gene: When genetic information upends life
El País Englishby Susana Lay·4 Sept 2026
Rosa Rivoira was 25 and her sister Carmen was 29 when they received the diagnosis that their mother, the Argentine architect and visual artist Eugenia Streb, had frontotemporal dementia.
A ‘spaceship’ in the heart of Manhattan: Can New York’s most distinctive building be saved?
El País Englishby Miquel Echarri·4 Sept 2026
The so-called “Bubble House” has found a buyer. Unfortunately, the new owners do not seem especially inclined to preserve the distinctive facade that makes it unique.
Benjamin Moser: ‘Many countries opposed Nazism. Who is opposing Netanyahu? Only Pedro Sánchez’
El País Englishby Anatxu Zabalbeascoa·4 Sept 2026
Benjamin Moser, 49, lives in a house near the caves of Lascaux that is quite literally lost in France’s Périgord region.
The case that shocked Mexico: The investigation into the murders of Jonathan Meléndez and his family
El País Englishby Beatriz Guillén·4 Sept 2026
As Mexico searches for answers to one of the country’s most shocking crimes in recent years, little is known about the man accused of carrying it out.
Milei seizes on Trump remarks to revive Argentina’s Falklands claim
El País Englishby Javier Lorca·4 Sept 2026
Perhaps more than ever before, Javier Milei departed from his trademark closing slogan. He left out the familiar “Long live freedom, damn it” and replaced it with “Long live the homeland.” Nor was...
‘Professors fear they could get in trouble for what they teach’: State laws bring censorship to US universities
El País Englishby Maye Primera·4 Sept 2026
Teaching Plato’s Symposium under Texas education rules cost Dr. Martin Peterson his position as a philosophy professor at Texas A&M University.
Your filters hide everything on this page. Adjust them in preferences.