The Ecuadorian fishermen who disappeared during the US war on drugs: ‘I still hope they’ll return’
El País Englishby Carolina Mella Happe·11h ago
Joel Valencia’s voice was weary after a long day. He had been loading heavy fishing nets and pulling ropes against the constant rocking of the boat.
‘A True Account of the Conquest of New Spain’: Chicanery, adventures and plunder recounted by a soldier-writer
El País Englishby Leonardo Padura·11h ago
Alejo Carpentier, a deep connoisseur of the origins, essences and behaviors of New World identity, and the author of the identity concept he called “American Magical Realism” — which he also...
Montevideo welcomes over 100 progressive leaders to the third Pan-American Congress
El País Englishby Mar Centenera·13h ago
This weekend, Montevideo will become the epicenter of progressive political debate in the Americas.
Colombian left lashes out at the presence of Israeli soldiers in earthquake rescue efforts
El País Englishby Diego Stacey·14h ago
“We flew from Israel to Colombia to help this beloved people. There is nothing we want more, as soldiers, than to be on Colombian soil trying to help,” a video published last Friday announced...
Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez shares her egg‑freezing process as speculation grows about a possible 2028 presidential bid
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·14h ago
Looking at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram — an account followed by nearly 10 million people — is an ambivalent experience.
The ‘revolutionary’ life in Nicaragua of devoted Trump aide Natalie Harp’s brother
El País Englishby Wilfredo Miranda·14h ago
Preston Harp was a man outside the media spotlight until his younger sister, Natalie Harp, found herself in the headlines in the United States as President Donald Trump’s most “devoted” aide.
Energy multinationals return to Venezuela
El País Englishby Alonso Moleiro·15h ago
Over the past two weeks, the Venezuelan government has announced major investment agreements with multinational companies to boost its oil and gas production.
After six months of war, Washington has failed to strangle Iran’s economy
El País Englishby Ignacio Fariza ,Ali Falahi·16h ago
“An economic D-Day.” Donald Trump’s vocabulary is as narrow as it is hyperbolic. But his threat, issued Wednesday, falls into a new category.
Maradona death trial upended by bizarre error: Experts analyzed his father’s clinical records
El País Englishby Delfina Torres·1d ago
The sidewalks outside the San Isidro courts, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, were once again filled with television cameras, journalists, and onlookers on Thursday morning.
Ebola outbreak out of control in Democratic Republic of the Congo, WHO says: ‘It is spreading faster than our ability to contain it’
El País Englishby Prosper Heri·1d ago
Hubert Nendakala no longer describes Ebola as a distant threat. In three weeks, the 40-year-old architect has lost a cousin and her husband, both border police officers in the Democratic Republic...
Andalusia’s rivers are being destroyed by tourism: ‘You don’t see anything, it’s all dead’
El País Englishby Nacho Sánchez·1d ago
Refreshing, clear, clean water. Narrow gorges, waterfalls and pools amid dense vegetation. The Chíllar River, in Nerja (Málaga province, population 22,187), offers almost everything a summer...
The parenthood paradox: Parents are less joyful but feel more fulfilled
El País Englishby Rodrigo Santodomingo·1d ago
When studied together, parenthood and happiness form two clearly distinct layers. In the foreground are sleepless nights and financial juggling. Endless negotiations and untimely crying.
Has the tradwife bubble burst?
El País Englishby María Arranz·1d ago
“Stop calling me a tradwife.” That is the title of a recent episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast in which model and influencer Nara Smith rejects the label that has followed her ever since she...
Buried treasure: Belgium hunts for the owner of a $10 million gold hoard
El País Englishby Silvia Ayuso·1d ago
Who hasn’t dreamed of finding a buried treasure? The fantasy came true a week ago in the Belgian city of Dendermonde, northwest of Brussels, when a teenage student working a summer construction job...
Life in the dark: The daily agony of Venezuela’s power crisis
El País Englishby Florantonia Singer·1d ago
Sonia Soto’s days are six hours shorter. Those are the hours she spends without electricity. During them, all she wants to do is lock herself in her bathroom and cry. “It is very hard.
Angie Nixon’s victory puts the Democrats’ progressive wave to the test in Florida
El País Englishby Abel Fernández·1d ago
A democratic socialist won the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Florida, a state that has become a Republican stronghold over the past decade and where the term “socialism” has long...
La Newyorkina, the Spanish granola brand inspired by a bad breakfast in New York
El País Englishby Ángela Rico·2d ago
Sometimes businesses are born not out of big ideas, but small disappointments. In Pelayo Pérez’s case, that disappointing moment came one morning in New York, in front of a coffee machine, a tray...
Breakthrough in neuromedicine as human mini-brains are kept alive for years
El País Englishby Daniel Mediavilla·2d ago
Popular scientific lore has Archimedes, 22 centuries ago, shouting “Eureka!” as he watched water spill over the edge of his bath.
The ICC stands firm against US pressure: ‘We are taking blows aimed at international law’
El País Englishby Ferrer Ferrer·2d ago
A phone call from Washington on July 23 was enough for Chad, a Central African country that has been a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 2007, to announce four days later that...
Paying for a concert with no view: Bruno Mars opens the debate on ‘audio-only’ tickets
El País Englishby Frankie Pizá·2d ago
On July 18, at the start of the first of six nights of The Romantic Tour at Wembley (London), before about 90,000 people — many waving hand-held fans bearing the slogan “Hot for Bruno” — Bruno Mars...
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