Miami’s fairy godmother for undocumented domestic workers
El País Englishby Antoni Belchi·18d ago
It is around 9:00 p.m. and Karla De Anda’s phone rings. The number is unknown to her. On the other end, connected to the free Wi‑Fi at a Miami airport terminal, a woman is sobbing uncontrollably.
Andrew Scott, the expert in tortured characters: ‘I join projects because of the script’
El País Englishby Gregorio Belinchón Yagüe·19d ago
Consciously, in what he himself calls “a healthily obsessive way,” Dublin-born Andrew Scott has built a career across film, television and theater by gravitating toward complex characters.
The story of the Barcelona DJ who spent five years in a Panamanian prison
El País Englishby Carlos Marcos·19d ago
He walked down the prison corridor, guarded by police. His wrists and ankles were shackled. He had shoulder-length blond hair, pale skin and light-colored eyes.
How to navigate William S. Burroughs in the 21st century
El País Englishby Laura Fernández·19d ago
The year is 1960. The setting is London’s Empress Hotel — a boarding house with a chilling reputation, located right next to Brompton Cemetery, in the heart of Earl’s Court.
Gonçalo M. Tavares, writer: ‘If a country like the U.S. has 40 million poor people, that country isn’t rich’
El País Englishby Tereixa Constenla·19d ago
There are writers… and then, there’s Gonçalo M. Tavares. His strange, surgical and violent literature springs up from who knows where. Then, unflinchingly, he lets it rest.
Douglas Stuart, author: ‘If you’ve ever known poverty, you never forget it’
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·19d ago
This was an interview designed to avoid mentioning Donald Trump. Douglas Stuart’s literature — and his life, which is inextricably linked to it — provides ample material for hours of conversation...
Mexico’s murder rate: a snapshot of a debate
El País Englishby Pablo Ferri·19d ago
In mid-March of 2025, the Mexican Navy arrested José Remedios Araiza — alias “R1” — in the state of Yucatán.
From Argentina to Morocco: How Trump is stoking territorial revisionism
El País Englishby Shlomo Ben Ami·19d ago
U.S. President Donald Trump has once again shared a map on which the American flag covers not only the United States, but also many other countries, including Canada, Cuba, Greenland, and Mexico.
Europe does not want to depend on foreign technology in the new digital order
El País Englishby Ramón Muñoz Moya·19d ago
For years, Europe grew used to a contradiction that it is only now beginning to see as a risk: being one of the world’s foremost regulatory powers in the digital sphere while remaining dependent on...
Held in hotels or detained for a year after being deported to Africa: ‘This is called human trafficking’
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·19d ago
Among so many faces, Roberto Mosquera remembered one in particular the day he arrived in Eswatini, a small country tucked away in southern Africa.
US citizen goes missing in Sinaloa, hotspot of cartel war
El País Englishby Marcos Vizcarra·20d ago
José Antonio Castro Meza, a U.S. citizen, has been missing since Tuesday, when he was last seen in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, which is grappling with a serious outbreak of violence due to a...
The tragedy of ‘Pichi’: He went to LA to buy a car and was killed by a helicopter
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·20d ago
Grief over the death of three people in the NBC and Telemundo helicopter crash in Los Angeles traveled over 2,300 miles south to Cuilapa, Guatemala, the impoverished community where victim Edy...
Daniela in Miami and Daniel in Africa, the deportation of a trans woman: ‘I dressed as a man to survive’
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·20d ago
In a single life that seems like many, she was born Daniel in a municipality on the outskirts of Havana; became Daniela at the height of adolescence; reverted to Daniel to cross Central America...
Israel moves closer to Austria’s Freedom Party, founded by former SS members and Nazi Party affiliates
El País Englishby EL PAÍS·20d ago
Since the October 7, 2023 attacks and the subsequent Israeli offensive in Gaza, Israel has stepped up contacts with various far-right parties in Europe and Latin America, including Spain’s Vox.
Shakira’s master stroke
El País Englishby Carlos Marcos·20d ago
In January 2023, Shakira’s career was floundering. Her last full-length album had come out five years earlier, in 2017. El Dorado was rated 2.3 out of 5 on the Rate Your Music page.
The Azcatitlan Codex returns to Mexico from Europe after nearly two centuries
El País Englishby Sonia Corona·20d ago
The Azcatitlan Codex, a 50‑folio summary of the Aztec empire’s history, has temporarily returned to Mexico on loan from France to mark the 200th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two...
Crypto giants flood the Republican Party with money despite failure of the Clarity Act
El País Englishby Elisa Tasca,Iker Seisdedos García·20d ago
In July 2024, during a crypto conference held in Nashville, Donald Trump vowed that if he returned to the White House he would turn the U.S. into the crypto capital of the world.
Chaotic scenes as Spanish police clear Ceuta migrants from beaches
El País Englishby Bárbara Ayuso·20d ago
Around 150 police officers began the process of moving migrants encamped on two beaches in Ceuta on Friday to facilities set up at the port in the Spanish exclave city, after the National High...
Spanish student Claudia Tacoronte’s alleged killer arrested in Cuautla
El País Englishby Pablo Ferri·20d ago
Police in Cuautla, in the state of Morelos, Mexico, have arrested Francisco Javier N., alias “El Trompas,” the alleged killer of Spanish student Claudia Tacoronte.
Democratic senators ask Trump administration for details on money from Venezuelan oil sales
El País Englishby Patricia Vélez Santiago·20d ago
A group of Democratic senators has asked the Donald Trump administration to provide details on the status of money from Venezuelan oil sales that is reportedly being held in a Treasury-controlled...
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