Mexico, a country without drug lords
The strategy of decapitating the major cartels, culminating in the death of El Mencho, has so far resulted in more violence due to the fragmentation of small, unpredictable, and uncontrolled groups
El Mencho’s hideout was a tourist cabin flagged by the US Treasury
The leader was killed in Tapalpa, an ecotourism hotspot near a golf club
How El Mencho evaded justice over the course of the last decade
Failed operations, thwarted intelligence, and unprecedented firepower hampered the pursuit of the drug lord
A decade of murders by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
Ukraine enters fifth year of war amid frontline attrition and pressure from Trump
Fourth anniversary of invasion marked by battlefield stalemate and US push for peace
The transformation of the front lines in Ukraine
45 years after Spain’s failed coup, reasonable doubts linger
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced that the government will release a trove of classified documents about 23-F ‘to settle a debt with citizens.’ Questions remain about the role played by former king Juan Carlos I, about the support shown by the army, and the extent of civilian involvement
With State of the Union address, Trump returns to a Congress he needs after the tariff ruling
The US president will review his administration’s priorities at the Capitol on Tuesday. He has already warned that it will be a long speech and that he hasn’t rehearsed it much
Controversy in Brazil over acquittal of 35-year-old man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl
The Penal Code, which considers sex with minors under 14 a crime, fails to eradicate the deeply rooted practice of child marriage
FedEx sues US government for tariff refund
The delivery services giant is the first major company to claim reimbursement following the Supreme Court’s decision that the import duties are unlawful
Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna: ‘Putin is playing with Trump and the entire West’
In an interview with EL PAÍS, the politician calls on the EU to do more for Ukraine and to reassess its relationship with Cuba
‘We must be doing something right as a society’: Why the photos of Pedro Pascal walking arm‑in‑arm with a man matter
Although the nature of their relationship is unknown, the display of affection knocks down more than a few walls
‘Therians’, the baseless viral phenomenon used by extremists to fuel their ‘anti-woke’ rhetoric
This supposed subculture unleashes hatred on social media through hoaxes and exaggerations that target trans people and feed the far-right narrative about a decadent society
A superhero in the Holocaust: A great novel finally comes to the big screen... in the form of an opera
An adaptation of Michael Chabon’s ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ will be shown in theaters after its successful run at the Metropolitan Opera in New York
Donald Trump’s broken families
Paola Nagovitch / Photographs by Carol Guzy
American photographer Carol Guzy, a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, asserts that, in light of the brutal anti-immigration crusade being waged by the US government, the work of photojournalists ‘is more important than ever’
The growing number of US scientists moving to Spain: ‘My colleagues are having a very hard time’
One in three recipients of the state-funded Atrae program comes from the United States
‘Wonderful’ new dinosaur species unearthed in the Sahara Desert
The more than 2,000‑year search for impossible geometries
Roberto Rubio
Douglas Hanahan, biologist: ‘We don’t necessarily need a cure, what we really need is cancer without disease’
What Mexico has gained and lost from its economic relationship with Chavista Venezuela
Trade has declined and has yet to recover since the hyperinflationary crisis of 2018, but foreign direct investment and remittances have soared in the last two years
Traffic jams are bleeding the Romanian economy dry
Spotify in the eye of the storm: Trumpism, denialism and a future under question
Cuban government’s debt to Spanish companies rises to at least $320 million
Jennifer Garner, star and producer of ‘The Last Thing He Told Me’: ‘I’m comfortable making decisions’
In the second season of the Apple TV series, the actress returns to her role as Hannah alongside Nikolaj Coster‑Waldau, who plays her missing husband
‘Banal,’ ‘extravagant,’ or ‘softcore kink’: Why everyone is talking about ‘Wuthering Heights’
The Backstreet Boys at the Sphere in Las Vegas: a perfect blend of nostalgia and colossal futurism that doesn’t even require their presence
Al Green: The sex symbol who became a reverend after a tragedy
Jordi Bardají
The forgotten Al Bowlly: The singer, killed by Nazi bombs, now celebrated by King Charles III and Dua Lipa
Jordi Bardají
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