Oil, the crisis crushing Cuba and giving Trump new leverage
Fuel shortages are paralyzing the economy, while the United States is incentivizing the island’s private sector
Cuba’s collapse in the age of influencers: ‘Staying here should be a source of pride, not a sacrifice’
A handful of young content creators on the island have found a degree of freedom online. In the digital world, the narrative about the guerrillas who won the heart of the Latin American left has run its course
Tokatlian: ‘If Peru, Colombia, and Brazil shift to the right, the US will have the bulk of Latin America under its influence’
Young people want to leave Miami, but for Hispanics it is not so simple
Rebecca Hall: ‘We lost counterculture somewhere along the way’
The painter, actress and director works from a very personal, and at the same time communal place, saying, ‘when you paint a face, that creates an exchange’
The hidden history of Afro-Bolivians: From slavery in silver mines to fighting for power
UNESCO recently highlighted a series of 17th-century documents. These reveal that the trafficking of Africans to exploit Bolivia’s Cerro Rico was the origin of the Black community in the country
Philippines, the call‑center capital: Taking a deluge of calls for under $2 an hour
The Asian country is a global leader in customer services, with Western corporations employing young people at salaries well below the cost of living
ICE used arrest quotas and surveillance technology in Oregon immigration raids, rare court testimony shows
Federal data and reports show a sharp increase in arrests in the state in 2025, while lawyers denounce tactics that could violate civil rights
Venezuelans in Chile rally around María Corina Machado
The opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate attracted a crowd of over 15,000 people to a demonstration in Santiago, where she had traveled to attend José Antonio Kast’s inauguration
The Kremlin tests blocking mobile internet in Moscow
Residents in the city are turning to pagers and printed maps due to the outages in the Russian capital
Kristen Bell, the voice of ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘Frozen,’ reaches new heights thanks to comedy
Her career began as a child filming commercials, she tried her hand at Broadway, and her career took off thanks to ‘Veronica Mars’
The fall of Sebastián Marset, the Uruguayan kingpin on the DEA’s most‑wanted list
In 2022, the cartel leader was linked to the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci
Western Sahara conflict underpins Morocco and Algeria’s ‘selective silence’ on attack against Iran
Rabat and Algiers have avoided condemning the US and Israeli strikes, amid ongoing talks over the African territory in a dispute
Brazilian cinema has high hopes of making Oscar history
‘The Secret Agent’ and Wagner Moura are nominated in four categories just one year after Brazil won its first ever Academy Award
The nightmare of organizing a Morrissey concert
The former frontman of The Smiths canceled his concert in Valencia due to ‘sleep deprivation,’ a decision that highlights the challengers promoters have to deal with
AI ends online anonymity: the ease of unmasking pseudonymous accounts
Study shows how combining a handful of data extracted from the trail that ‘unknown’ users leave on the internet can lead to their identification
A new interactive atlas reveals the human body in unprecedented detail
Mexico’s Silicon Valley defies the shadow of organized crime
The Ig Nobel awards are moving to Europe after 35 years: ‘It has become unsafe for our guests to visit the US’
Venezuela opens its gold and gas-rich subsoil to the United States
Parliament debates new rules for mining and incentives for foreign investment in an area that is controlled by criminal groups and which has become a major environmental disaster
The new kings of Hollywood: How the Ellison family built a media empire
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury: ‘Do we want to achieve zero dependence on the U.S.? I’m not sure that’s the best approach’
Mohamed Mezghani, of the International Association of Public Transport: ‘A traffic jam of electric cars is still a traffic jam’
Netflix preparing series on stormy relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Directors Patricia Riggen and Gabriel Ripstein speak exclusively with EL PAÍS about the intricacies of a project that is currently in the writing phase
Élmer Mendoza: ‘The situation in Sinaloa is not a reason to feel sad or hopeless’
The Mexican writer presents ‘The Mermaid and the Retiree,’ a political and suspenseful work set in Culiacán
Insult or adaptation? Why films still struggle to adapt novels
Inside Hollywood’s Governors Ball: Custom sushi, 1,000 bottles of tequila and 6,000 chocolate ‘Oscars’
For the 32nd time, chef Wolfgang Puck is taking charge of the post‑Oscars event that will feed the nearly 2,000 guests
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Celebrities, Movies & TV
Inside the ‘Vanity Fair’ Oscar party, where Madonna whispered to Brad Pitt and Courtney Love’s manager was banned
Jessie Buckley, Hollywood’s new breakout star: From near-obscurity to Oscar frontrunner
Paul Dano: ‘The sad thing about seeing celebrities get into politics is that it shows how impressionable we are’
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The girls of San Benito, the center where Trump sends pregnant migrant minors
Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer: ‘Obama never understood how deep-seated racism is in the country that elected him’
Three women, three countries and a global crisis
How the CIA used a former Spanish soldier to keep tabs on Julian Assange
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