<![CDATA[EL PAÍS]]>https://english.elpais.comMon, 27 Apr 2026 15:06:55 +0000en1hourly1<![CDATA[Guadalajara, a World Cup venue trapped between dirty water, social unrest and a measles outbreak]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-11/guadalajara-a-world-cup-venue-trapped-between-dirty-water-social-unrest-and-a-measles-outbreak.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-11/guadalajara-a-world-cup-venue-trapped-between-dirty-water-social-unrest-and-a-measles-outbreak.htmlSun, 12 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000Entering or leaving Guadalajara has become an ordeal. Construction is everywhere, and traffic jams on the city’s main roads can exceed 35 minutes. Accidents are frequent, and social protests are mounting, bringing the capital of Jalisco to a boiling point weeks before it hosts four World Cup matches. The sewage crisis, which has been affecting hundreds of thousands of residents for months, is the latest to compound other persistent problems in the city and its metropolitan area, home to five million people. Rising public transportation fares, complaints about the city’s “beautification” efforts, and a surge in measles cases in the state have increased the pressure on authorities who are seeing multiple challenges unfold less than 100 days before the start of the world’s biggest sporting event.

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]]>Roberto Antillón.<![CDATA[El Mencho’s death brings to a halt the search for missing persons in Jalisco]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-03/el-menchos-death-brings-to-a-halt-the-search-for-missing-persons-in-jalisco.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-03/el-menchos-death-brings-to-a-halt-the-search-for-missing-persons-in-jalisco.htmlTue, 03 Mar 2026 10:24:57 +0000Families of missing persons in Jalisco have decided to halt their searches — as well as their public appearances and statements — amid the wave of violence, uncertainty, and fear that pervades the state following the death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). But risk is not the only challenge facing these groups. In the local Congress an initiative is being debated that, although initially intended to protect their activities, such as posting missing persons flyers in public places and preventing their removal, now proposes prohibiting them in certain locations. “The authorities know very well how to obstruct the search,” say relatives of missing persons, who requested anonymity.

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]]>Marco Ugarte<![CDATA[Mexico’s missing people crisis casts a shadow over World Cup venue]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-20/mexicos-missing-people-crisis-casts-a-shadow-over-world-cup-venue.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-20/mexicos-missing-people-crisis-casts-a-shadow-over-world-cup-venue.htmlSat, 20 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000There isn’t just one clandestine grave. Or two, or three. At least a dozen have been located on properties and abandoned land within a 10-mile radius of Akron Stadium in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, located within the Mexican state of Jalisco. This is one of the three sports complexes that will host four matches during the 2026 World Cup.

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]]>Roberto Antillón.<![CDATA[US pressures Mexico for violating the 1944 Water Treaty ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-03/us-pressures-mexico-for-violating-the-1944-water-treaty.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-03/us-pressures-mexico-for-violating-the-1944-water-treaty.htmlWed, 03 Dec 2025 12:36:57 +0000Water has become a source of internal and external dispute for the Mexican government in recent months. On November 25, the U.S. State Department reported on a meeting between Mexican and U.S. officials in which, it claims, it “pressed” Mexico to comply with its obligation—stipulated in the 1944 Water Treaty—and supply “the maximum possible amount” of water to users in Texas. “The shortfall in water deliveries has exacerbated the shortage in Texas and contributed to hundreds of millions of dollars in crop losses,” they warned.

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]]>Jose Luis Gonzalez<![CDATA[Claudia Sheinbaum harassment incident highlights violence against women in Mexico]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-05/claudia-sheinbaum-harassment-incident-highlights-lack-of-presidential-security-and-violence-against-women-in-mexico.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-05/claudia-sheinbaum-harassment-incident-highlights-lack-of-presidential-security-and-violence-against-women-in-mexico.htmlWed, 05 Nov 2025 09:26:43 +0000Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was harassed by an unknown man on Tuesday afternoon who approached her, tried to kiss her, and touched her breast, all while a crowd surrounding the president looked on in astonishment without any immediate reaction. The harassment only stopped when Juan José Ramírez Mendoza, head of the General Directorate of Aides-de-Camp — a team of people who accompany the president in her daily activities — stepped in between the president and the man. The incident was captured on cell phone cameras by bystanders.

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]]><![CDATA[Mexico’s major initiative to eradicate the screwworm will be ready in July 2026]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-21/mexicos-major-initiative-to-eradicate-the-screwworm-will-be-ready-in-july-2026.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-21/mexicos-major-initiative-to-eradicate-the-screwworm-will-be-ready-in-july-2026.htmlTue, 21 Oct 2025 14:09:42 +0000In 1991, the Mexican state of Chiapas was the epicenter of the first eradication of the cattle screwworm infestation in history. An old sterile fly plant, which operated for about seven years in Chiapa de Corzo — about nine miles from the capital, Tuxtla Gutiérrez — once produced millions of flies that achieved that initial victory over the pest. Now, 34 years later, the same disease is causing alarm in North and Central America.

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]]>Rodrigo Oropeza<![CDATA[The secret guard of La Luz del Mundo: A training camp in Mexico reveals the church leader’s iron grip]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-25/the-secret-guard-of-la-luz-del-mundo-a-training-camp-in-mexico-reveals-the-church-leaders-iron-grip.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-25/the-secret-guard-of-la-luz-del-mundo-a-training-camp-in-mexico-reveals-the-church-leaders-iron-grip.htmlThu, 25 Sep 2025 14:16:49 +0000A security operation arrived at dawn at a plot of land in the municipality of Vista Hermosa, Michoacán, believing they would be facing a cartel. Residents had reported a training camp for organized crime, a specter that remains vivid in the minds of Mexicans after the discovery of the sinister ranch in Teuchitlán in Jalisco. The scene fit all the characteristics. Security forces arrested 38 men and seized what appeared to be high-powered firearms and tactical gear. What puzzled them was that the detainees did not identify themselves as cartel hitmen, but as members of the evangelical church La Luz del Mundo (The Light of the World).

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]]>Fernando Carranza<![CDATA[Marco Rubio will travel to Mexico next week to sign a security agreement]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-29/marco-rubio-will-travel-to-mexico-next-week-to-sign-a-security-agreement.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-29/marco-rubio-will-travel-to-mexico-next-week-to-sign-a-security-agreement.htmlFri, 29 Aug 2025 08:03:45 +0000The U.S. State Department on Thursday confirmed a trip by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Mexico and Ecuador, from September 2 to 4. As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced just a few days ago, Rubio will meet with Mexican authorities to, among other issues, sign a security agreement amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on drug cartels.

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]]>Mark Schiefelbein<![CDATA[The lessons of ‘Otis’ and ‘John’: Mexico avoids catastrophe from ‘Erick,’ the first major hurricane of 2025]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-20/the-lessons-of-otis-and-john-mexico-avoids-catastrophe-from-erick-the-first-major-hurricane-of-2025.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-20/the-lessons-of-otis-and-john-mexico-avoids-catastrophe-from-erick-the-first-major-hurricane-of-2025.htmlFri, 20 Jun 2025 14:18:18 +0000Hurricane Erick made landfall in Oaxaca on the morning of June 19, in the municipality of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, about 340 kilometers (210 miles) from the state capital. It did so at category 3, with winds of up to 205 kilometers per hour (127 mph) and gusts of 250 kmph (155 mph). A few hours earlier, it had reached category 4 but gradually decreased in intensity as it entered Oaxacan territory and became a tropical storm. The result, as reported by local and federal authorities, is “white.” In other words, there has been no loss of human life or missing persons reported. In less than 24 hours, the government set up hundreds of shelters and deployed a security force of more than 30,000 personnel to prepare and support the population in the face of the threat. Fresh in the collective memory was the havoc wreaked by hurricanes John and Otis on those same coasts in 2024 and 2023.

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]]>Jorge Luis Plata<![CDATA[Mexico asks US to clarify if Ovidio Guzmán’s mother and 16 relatives crossed the border]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-13/mexico-asks-us-to-clarify-if-ovidio-guzmans-mother-and-16-relatives-crossed-the-border.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-13/mexico-asks-us-to-clarify-if-ovidio-guzmans-mother-and-16-relatives-crossed-the-border.htmlTue, 13 May 2025 13:42:59 +0000Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, confirmed on Monday that the Mexican government has no information from the United States government regarding the alleged crossing of at least 17 relatives of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán into U.S. territory on May 9 through the San Ysidro border crossing between Tijuana and San Diego.

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]]><![CDATA[Screwworm fly plague opens a new front between the Trump administration and Mexico]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-29/screwworm-fly-plague-opens-a-new-front-between-the-trump-administration-and-mexico.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-29/screwworm-fly-plague-opens-a-new-front-between-the-trump-administration-and-mexico.htmlTue, 29 Apr 2025 10:46:07 +0000The latest front in the dispute between the U.S. and Mexican governments is now being waged in the livestock sector. On Saturday, United States Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins sent a letter to Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration warning that she will again restrict imports of animal products from Mexico if the fight against the Cochliomyia hominivorax, or screwworm fly, is not intensified by this Wednesday. The decision comes after several weeks of reported cases of this pest in states such as Tabasco and Chiapas, and just days before livestock imports into the United States were set to resume following an initial suspension, also due to screwworm, in November 2024.

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]]>Anadolu,Christian Torres<![CDATA[Recruited by Mexican crime: ‘The four letters of Guadalajara invite you to work’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-13/recruited-by-mexican-crime-the-four-letters-of-guadalajara-invite-you-to-work.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-13/recruited-by-mexican-crime-the-four-letters-of-guadalajara-invite-you-to-work.htmlSun, 13 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000“Mass recruitment,” “You’ll be paid during training,” “The four letters of Guadalajara invite you to work”— these are messages from organized crime groups in Mexico, offering jobs. Sometimes subtly, through deception, and on other occasions directly, cartels like “the four letters” — the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) — are increasingly using social media to recruit soldiers to join their ranks. The Teuchitlán case, the ranch discovered in March by relatives of people who disappeared in the center of the country, has shed light on this phenomenon, about which little was known until recently.

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]]>Galo Cañas Rodríguez<![CDATA[The death of Magdaleno Pérez Santes in Mexico: The crime of searching for missing children]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-03-13/the-death-of-magdaleno-perez-santes-in-mexico-the-crime-of-searching-for-missing-children.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-03-13/the-death-of-magdaleno-perez-santes-in-mexico-the-crime-of-searching-for-missing-children.htmlThu, 13 Mar 2025 16:46:23 +0000Mexico is experiencing a seemingly endless chain of tragedies. On Wednesday, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, collectives made up of families of missing people reported the death of Magdaleno Pérez Santes. He was the father of Diana Paloma Pérez Vargas, a high school student who disappeared in November 2019 while on her way to school.

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]]><![CDATA[FBI adds ‘El Chapo’ Isidro, an old enemy of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, to its most wanted list]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-02-05/fbi-adds-el-chapo-isidro-an-old-enemy-of-el-chapo-guzman-to-its-most-wanted-list.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-02-05/fbi-adds-el-chapo-isidro-an-old-enemy-of-el-chapo-guzman-to-its-most-wanted-list.htmlWed, 05 Feb 2025 11:44:53 +0000The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday added the Mexican drug trafficker Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, “El Chapo Isidro,” to its list of the 10 most wanted fugitives. El Chapo Isidro, 42, is accused by American authorities of being the leader of a transnational organization responsible for trafficking and importing large quantities of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl and marijuana into the U.S. In Mexico, El Chapo Isidro is an old acquaintance. A drug lord during the time of the Beltrán Leyva group, and an enemy of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán for decades, he is also considered one of the warlords in Sinaloa, which has been the scene of an internal battle between factions of the cartel for almost five months now.

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]]><![CDATA[The Mexican Army intensifies its offensive against El Guano, the brother of Chapo Guzmán]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-07-10/the-mexican-army-intensifies-its-offensive-against-el-guano-the-brother-of-chapo-guzman.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2024-07-10/the-mexican-army-intensifies-its-offensive-against-el-guano-the-brother-of-chapo-guzman.htmlWed, 10 Jul 2024 15:25:29 +0000A military operation between the borders of the Mexican states of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua — a mountainous region better known in Mexico as the Golden Triangle — ended Monday afternoon with the arrest of three men close to Aureliano Guzman Loera, the older brother of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera.

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]]><![CDATA[Elizabeth Horan, literary scholar: ‘Gabriela Mistral is as important for Latin America as Bolívar, Martí, or Mariátegui’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-06-15/elizabeth-horan-literary-scholar-gabriela-mistral-is-as-important-for-latin-america-as-bolivar-marti-or-mariategui.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-06-15/elizabeth-horan-literary-scholar-gabriela-mistral-is-as-important-for-latin-america-as-bolivar-marti-or-mariategui.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 04:19:01 +0000Elizabeth Horan is 67 years old. But when you meet her, you get the feeling that you’re in the presence of a very young spirit. The literary scholar has the overwhelmingly energy typical of someone in their twenties — the period of time in life when the world is a sea of infinite possibilities.

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]]>Eric Harlow<![CDATA[At least 9 dead and 121 injured after stage collapses at campaign rally in Mexico]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-05-23/at-least-9-dead-and-84-injured-after-stage-collapses-at-campaign-rally-in-mexico.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2024-05-23/at-least-9-dead-and-84-injured-after-stage-collapses-at-campaign-rally-in-mexico.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 16:00:34 +0000At least nine people were killed and 121 more injured after strong winds knocked down the campaign stage where a Mexican presidential candidate, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, was supporting a local nominee running for mayor of San Pedro Garza García, in the state of Nuevo León. Governor Samuel García has confirmed the number of victims; the dead include eight adults and one child.

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]]><![CDATA[‘All for one’: The women supporting the political careers of other women in Mexico ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/women-leaders-of-latin-america/2024-01-31/all-for-one-the-women-supporting-the-political-careers-of-other-women-in-mexico.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/women-leaders-of-latin-america/2024-01-31/all-for-one-the-women-supporting-the-political-careers-of-other-women-in-mexico.htmlWed, 31 Jan 2024 23:08:13 +0000At first, they thought they would be the ones preparing themselves for political positions in Mexico: “a feminist party,” they mused. But then, they realized that wasn’t their purpose. They came to the conclusion that, although they care deeply about the way politics are done in their country, they didn’t personally want to step into those roles. So, they created an organization in which many women would support a single candidate: “All for one.” So was born Aúna, the citizen platform through which professional women from across many disciplines — filmmakers, producers, lawyers, political scientists, etc. — call on other women from all over the country in order to support, train, register and accompany them on their path to elected office.

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]]>Gladys Serrano <![CDATA[Still under construction, more expensive tickets: This is how Mexico’s Maya Train is getting started]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-12-15/still-under-construction-more-expensive-tickets-this-is-how-mexicos-maya-train-is-getting-started.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2023-12-15/still-under-construction-more-expensive-tickets-this-is-how-mexicos-maya-train-is-getting-started.htmlFri, 15 Dec 2023 17:25:36 +0000On the official website of the Maya Train, a countdown marks only a couple of hours until the start of what is already considered the flagship infrastructure project of the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The beginning of operations will be partial and only along the first completed segment of tracks, from Campeche to the city of Cancún, in the state of Quintana Roo. In addition, the train tickets are priced within a range of 1,166 to 1,862 Mexican pesos ($68 to $108), a different set of rates from what was initially proposed, with Mexican citizens slated to pay about 60 pesos (about four dollars). And it’s not only the fare that has ballooned: cost overruns for the infrastructure are nearly three times over budget, according to estimates. The project, which has been funded entirely with public money, comes with a price tag of nearly 500 billion pesos ($29 billion).

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]]><![CDATA[Two knives, footprints and no witnesses: The murder of a judge that keeps Mexico in suspense ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-11-16/two-knives-footprints-and-no-witnesses-the-murder-of-a-judge-that-keeps-mexico-in-suspense.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2023-11-16/two-knives-footprints-and-no-witnesses-the-murder-of-a-judge-that-keeps-mexico-in-suspense.htmlThu, 16 Nov 2023 15:11:34 +0000Jesús Figueroa Ortega — prosecutor for the Mexican state of Aguascalientes — remembers one of the last visits that Magistrate Ociel Baena Saucedo made to his office. Sitting in the leather chair in front of him, the young judge told him about the difficulties he was having as the first non-binary person to hold a position on the State Electoral Tribunal. There were conflicts with his colleagues; every time he published something on social media, “positive and negative comments” rained down on him.

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]]>Roberto Antillón<![CDATA[Vicente Muñiz, the Mexican ambassador who gave refuge to 400 people during the Uruguayan dictatorship]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-06-27/vicente-muniz-the-mexican-ambassador-who-gave-refuge-to-400-people-during-the-uruguayan-dictatorship.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2023-06-27/vicente-muniz-the-mexican-ambassador-who-gave-refuge-to-400-people-during-the-uruguayan-dictatorship.htmlTue, 27 Jun 2023 16:14:37 +0000Vicente Muñiz Arroyo, Mexico’s ambassador to Uruguay from 1974 to 1977, had a message for his staff: “Asylum seekers must first be given protection; the question of granting asylum shall follow in due course.” The South American country was in crisis and he knew it was time to act. With Juan María Bordaberry’s military-supported dictatorship in power, hundreds of regime opponents faced torture, imprisonment and even death. During his three years in charge of the Mexican Embassy, Muñiz opened his home to around 400 people, processing safe-conduct permits and arranging flights that took hundreds of exiles to Mexico.

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]]><![CDATA[Medical negligence in Mexico: Woman has legs amputated after erroneous diagnosis]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-07-08/medical-negligence-in-mexico-woman-has-legs-amputated-after-erroneous-diagnosis.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2022-07-08/medical-negligence-in-mexico-woman-has-legs-amputated-after-erroneous-diagnosis.htmlFri, 08 Jul 2022 02:22:28 +0000This Wednesday, Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has asked the general director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Zoé Robledo Aburto, the “immediate repair of the damage, including the payment of sufficient economic compensation” to a woman who went to an IMSS hospital in the state of Querétaro in 2018 due to abdominal pain. The patient received a misdiagnosis. Her health condition quickly became serious, requiring the removal of her uterus and an ovary and, later, the amputation of both legs.

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]]><![CDATA[The seeking mothers of Latin America: without fear and with memory]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-06-04/the-seeking-mothers-of-latin-america-without-fear-and-with-memory.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2022-06-04/the-seeking-mothers-of-latin-america-without-fear-and-with-memory.htmlSat, 04 Jun 2022 14:20:15 +0000The eyes of the earth are in the Atacama desert, in northern Chile. Scientists confirm that the most powerful telescopes in the world are there, in that infinite space, the driest on the planet, which is also the only one that blooms once a year: they call it the flowery desert. There, in the middle of an immense nothingness, dozens of women forged a story of bravery, of a painful and serious bravery that is replicated in every corner of the continent. The women of Calama became famous for decades searching for their children, brothers, and husbands who disappeared during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), a regime that murdered, tortured, and disappeared more than 40,000 people inside and outside Chilean territory. In Nostalgia for the Light, a 2010 documentary by the Chilean Patricio Guzmán, several of these women drag their feet and touch the earth. They became experts at knowing the difference between a stone fragment and a human bone fragment. “I wish telescopes didn’t just look at the sky, but could go through the earth to be able to locate them,” says one of them while the sun tans her face full of wrinkles and sadness.

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]]><![CDATA[Coronavirus outbreak sparks panic buying in Madrid ]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy_and_business/2020-03-11/coronavirus-outbreak-sparks-panic-buying-in-madrid.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy_and_business/2020-03-11/coronavirus-outbreak-sparks-panic-buying-in-madrid.htmlWed, 11 Mar 2020 14:56:24 +0000The coronavirus outbreak in Madrid has sparked panic buying at supermarkets across the capital. On Tuesday, customers waited in long lines to stock up on products such as pasta, rice, oil, milk and toilet paper, leaving many shelves empty.

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