<![CDATA[EL PAÍS]]>https://english.elpais.comFri, 29 May 2026 20:36:17 +0000en1hourly1<![CDATA[Gustavo Petro: ‘There will be a rebellion if the United States does not rethink its policy toward Latin America’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-20/gustavo-petro-there-will-be-a-rebellion-if-the-united-states-does-not-rethink-its-policy-toward-latin-america.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-20/gustavo-petro-there-will-be-a-rebellion-if-the-united-states-does-not-rethink-its-policy-toward-latin-america.htmlMon, 20 Apr 2026 10:19:34 +0000Gustavo Petro is running out of time. On August 7 he will cease to be Colombia’s president. Over four years, many of his promises have fallen by the wayside — sometimes because of his own missteps, other times because of the resistance and fears of a country where the left had not governed in decades. Now the toll of holding power has come crashing down on him. At times, he appears irritable and in a bad mood, but on Saturday morning, a smiling Petro, dressed in an impeccable blue suit, walked into Pavilion 8 of the Fira de Barcelona accompanied by his presidential entourage. Petro was taking part in the Fourth Meeting in Defense of Democracy alongside the presidents of Spain, Brazil, and Mexico — a progressive lineup in which he feels at ease.

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]]>Massimiliano Minocri<![CDATA[Lula: ‘Trump has no right to wake up in the morning and threaten a country’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-16/lula-trump-has-no-right-to-wake-up-in-the-morning-and-threaten-a-country.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-16/lula-trump-has-no-right-to-wake-up-in-the-morning-and-threaten-a-country.htmlThu, 16 Apr 2026 10:36:00 +0000Brasília awoke to a gray morning. A subdued atmosphere hangs over the Three Powers Square, the heart of Brazil’s executive, legislative, and judicial branches. But it quickly dissipates upon entering the bustling Planalto Palace, where President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva receives EL PAÍS on the third floor.

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]]>Gladys Serrano <![CDATA[Bernardo Arévalo: ‘Guatemala’s democracy is at stake in the coming month’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-03/bernardo-arevalo-guatemalas-democracy-is-at-stake-in-the-coming-month.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-03/bernardo-arevalo-guatemalas-democracy-is-at-stake-in-the-coming-month.htmlTue, 03 Feb 2026 16:08:54 +0000Guatemala is going through a critical moment. The country is caught between efforts to rebuild its institutions and the resistance of a corrupt state unwilling to surrender its privileges. Since taking office in January 2024, President Bernardo Arévalo, 67, has confronted those entrenched powers, which have tried by every means to limit his autonomy. He has faced destabilization maneuvers, threats, and a persistent offensive from the Attorney General’s Office and Congress. Added to this is a series of prison riots, triggered after the Barrio 18 gang killed 10 police officers, which led him to impose a state of siege that remains in effect.

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]]>AGGI GARDUÑO<![CDATA[Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: ‘Normalizing our relations with Mexico is a priority’]]>https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-11-10/spanish-pm-pedro-sanchez-normalizing-our-relations-with-mexico-is-a-priority.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-11-10/spanish-pm-pedro-sanchez-normalizing-our-relations-with-mexico-is-a-priority.htmlMon, 10 Nov 2025 14:42:11 +0000It’s Thursday morning and Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, 53, arrives at the Miró Room in La Moncloa, the seat of government, dressed in a blue suit and in good spirits. He seems eager to continue the fight. Neither the fierce legal pressure nor the withdrawal of parliamentary support by the Catalan separatist party Junts per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia), announced just an hour earlier, appear to have affected the Socialist Party (PSOE) leader. On the contrary, during the interview he affirmed that he will run again in the 2027 general elections, and even allowed himself a touch of sarcasm regarding the new memoir by Spain’s emeritus king Juan Carlos I: “I haven’t read it yet, but I’ll also tell you that it won’t be one of the books I recommend this Christmas, given what’s happened.”

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]]>Carlos Rosillo<![CDATA[A reader before an editor-in-chief]]>https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2025-06-10/a-reader-before-an-editor-in-chief.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/opinion/2025-06-10/a-reader-before-an-editor-in-chief.htmlTue, 10 Jun 2025 11:09:21 +0000I am a reader of EL PAÍS before its editor-in-chief. It’s not something I chose. My father introduced me to that habit in the 1970s. A social democrat and Spanish republican, he belonged to that group of readers who bought the newspaper from day one. I remember him walking to the newsstand and then fearlessly carrying it under his arm, when that gesture — in a Spain that hadn’t yet held general elections or approved the Constitution — meant declaring himself a democrat in the face of the timid and those nostalgic for the dictatorship.

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]]>Sr. García<![CDATA[Gustavo Petro: ‘I was wrong to believe that I could make a revolution by governing’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-02-26/gustavo-petro-i-was-wrong-to-believe-that-i-could-make-a-revolution-by-governing.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-02-26/gustavo-petro-i-was-wrong-to-believe-that-i-could-make-a-revolution-by-governing.htmlWed, 26 Feb 2025 16:02:06 +0000The clock strikes 3 p.m. and the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, arrives at the Gobelins Hall in the Casa de Nariño, his official residence, visibly tired. He says that he has a “virus with everything” and he lets himself fall into the golden chair from which he will talk for almost two hours with EL PAÍS. He barely gestures and, at first, responds by making long historical circumlocutions. They disappear as the interview progresses, to give way to the tough and warrior-like Petro that everyone is familiar with, a president who, at 64 years old, defends his administration tooth and nail, but in whom the bitterness and disappointments of power are also evident.

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]]>CHELO CAMACHO<![CDATA[Rebeca Grynspan: ‘This is Latin America’s moment, it’s the region’s turn to lead the UN Secretariat’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-02-04/rebeca-grynspan-this-is-latin-americas-moment-its-the-regions-turn-to-lead-the-un-secretariat.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-02-04/rebeca-grynspan-this-is-latin-americas-moment-its-the-regions-turn-to-lead-the-un-secretariat.htmlTue, 04 Feb 2025 16:47:18 +0000Rebeca Grynspan is one of the most experienced Latin American politicians on the international stage. She was as vice president of Costa Rica, the country where she was born nearly 70 years ago, and later worked alongside Ban Ki-moon, who appointed her as under-secretary-general of the U.N. and associate administrator of the United Nations Development Program. A decade ago, she was unanimously elected as secretary-general of the Ibero-American Conference, and this year, she will conclude her tenure at the helm of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development.

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]]>Mónica González Islas<![CDATA[Gabriel Boric, president of Chile: ‘The left in Latin America has had a tendency not to take responsibility for its own mistakes’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-03-12/gabriel-boric-president-of-chile-the-left-in-latin-america-has-had-a-tendency-not-to-take-responsibility-for-its-own-mistakes.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2024-03-12/gabriel-boric-president-of-chile-the-left-in-latin-america-has-had-a-tendency-not-to-take-responsibility-for-its-own-mistakes.htmlTue, 12 Mar 2024 23:02:24 +0000On March 11, 2022, Gabriel Boric Font assumed power at only 36 years of age, with his entire future ahead of him. He was the leader of a new Latin American left, a president destined to heal the wounds of the Chilean revolt of 2019 and bury the Constitution born during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In those days — in a continent always in turmoil — Boric embodied the hope of progressives across the Global South.

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]]>Tomás Munita<![CDATA[“It would be a tragedy if the arts became mere entertainment”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2012/05/07/inenglish/1336392783_365628.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2012/05/07/inenglish/1336392783_365628.htmlTue, 08 May 2012 12:14:38 +0000Mario Vargas Llosa says that he’s had the feeling that he’s being laughed at for some time now. The Peruvian novelist and Nobel Prize winner says the sensation began to grow during visits to exhibitions and arts fairs, at shows, at the cinema, when watching television, and even when reading the press and certain books. He describes the feeling as a growing sense that he was being mocked, that he was “defenseless in the face of a subtle conspiracy” designed to make him feel stupid and uncultured, to make him feel that art was nothing more than a racket.

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]]>BERNARDO PÉREZ<![CDATA[Pandora Papers in Latin America: Three active heads of state and 11 former presidents operated in tax havens]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-10-03/pandora-papers-in-latin-america-three-active-heads-of-state-and-11-former-presidents-operated-in-tax-havens.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-10-03/pandora-papers-in-latin-america-three-active-heads-of-state-and-11-former-presidents-operated-in-tax-havens.htmlSun, 03 Oct 2021 17:41:17 +0000Three current and 11 retired presidents, 90 politicians in the upper echelons of power, entire religious congregations, world-famous artists, billionaires and even the governor of a central bank; in Latin America, a constellation of influential figures has made use of tax havens over the years.

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]]>Sr. García<![CDATA[An interview with Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia’s former president]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-09-20/an-interview-with-juan-manuel-santos-colombias-former-president.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2022-09-20/an-interview-with-juan-manuel-santos-colombias-former-president.htmlTue, 20 Sep 2022 02:00:35 +0000Juan Manuel Santos, at 72, has reached a point in his life where he could easily dedicate all his time to his grandchildren. But his political appetite – which led him to become Colombia’s president on two occasions and strike a peace deal with the FARC guerrillas – prevents him from doing so.

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]]><![CDATA[Colombia’s Gustavo Petro: ‘If I fail, darkness will come and ravage everything’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-06-29/colombias-gustavo-petro-if-i-fail-darkness-will-come-and-ravage-everything.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2022-06-29/colombias-gustavo-petro-if-i-fail-darkness-will-come-and-ravage-everything.htmlWed, 29 Jun 2022 16:53:25 +0000Gustavo Petro learned that he was going to be president of Colombia at 4.20 pm on Sunday, June 19. When the third report came out with 4.47% of the votes counted, he became certain of a long-awaited victory. Alone in his room, while members of his closest circle shouted outside, he felt a kind of inner collapse that he describes as a “deep stupor.” “When everything stops, when the adrenaline stops flowing, it is as if a building were crashing down on you. I just dropped on the bed,” he recalls.

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]]><![CDATA[“People who say homosexuals are sick are sick themselves”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2014/07/14/inenglish/1405349122_612890.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2014/07/14/inenglish/1405349122_612890.htmlMon, 14 Jul 2014 15:24:59 +0000Raúl Vera is the Mexican bishop who holds the record for death threats. He has survived more than one attempt on his life, and his work in favor of missing persons, immigrants, children and juveniles, indigenous populations, prostitutes and pariahs of all types has earned him the undying hatred of many, including the drug rings.

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]]><![CDATA[Gustavo Petro: ‘Colombia doesn’t need socialism, it needs democracy and peace’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-09-22/gustavo-petro-colombia-doesnt-need-socialism-it-needs-democracy-and-peace.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-09-22/gustavo-petro-colombia-doesnt-need-socialism-it-needs-democracy-and-peace.htmlWed, 22 Sep 2021 12:57:07 +0000Gustavo Petro is the candidate to beat. In a political universe as atomized as Colombia’s, the economist currently leads the polls as the favorite to win the presidential elections in 2022. It will be a race that he knows will offer no chance for let up and that will push him to take risks and take to the street in search of votes. This is, as Petro acknowledges, the only way to become head of state and cap an intense political career. At the age of 61, he has been a guerrilla in the insurgent organization Movimiento 19 de Abril (19th of April Movement), a senator and whip for former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe, mayor of Bogotá and a presidential candidate in 2018, when he finished second with over eight million votes (43%).

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]]>Andrés Cardona<![CDATA[Iván Duque: ‘I’m not going to allow anyone to bleed Colombia’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-06-02/ivan-duque-im-not-going-to-allow-anyone-to-bleed-colombia.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-06-02/ivan-duque-im-not-going-to-allow-anyone-to-bleed-colombia.htmlWed, 02 Jun 2021 11:39:27 +0000Iván Duque presides over a country in flames. Ever since protests began on April 28, not a single day has gone by without violence in Colombia. The trigger was tax reform, the signature issue of the Duque administration. The proposed legislation was meant to increase taxes, reduce the debt created by the pandemic and send a message of rigor to the markets. But the result was considerably different.

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]]>Camilo Rozo <![CDATA[Colombian President Iván Duque: ‘We have never played roulette with the economy or with social-spending programs’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-03-24/colombian-president-ivan-duque-we-have-never-played-roulette-with-the-economy-or-with-social-spending-programs.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-03-24/colombian-president-ivan-duque-we-have-never-played-roulette-with-the-economy-or-with-social-spending-programs.htmlWed, 24 Mar 2021 11:36:13 +0000On a Saturday morning, Colombian President Iván Duque greets EL PAÍS journalists in an aviator jacket and jeans. As he guides us on a tour of the Casa de Nariño official residence, he talks about its construction, its first owners and its sale to the state. He elaborates at length in front of the urn that holds the steel and bronze sword of Simón Bolívar, reciting facts from memory. In his office, one can spot a motto on his desk that reads: “If you do the little things well, the big things will work out better”. When applied to Duque’s policies, his detractors would argue he has not stuck to the message.

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]]>Camilo Rozo <![CDATA[In wake of failed investiture bid, Socialists rule out coalition government]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/07/29/inenglish/1564384957_267040.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/07/29/inenglish/1564384957_267040.htmlMon, 29 Jul 2019 11:57:23 +0000In the wake of Pedro Sánchez’s failure to get confirmed by parliament as the new prime minister of Spain, his Socialist Party (PSOE) is keeping all avenues open, including the possibility of a repeat election in November. In accordance to Spanish legislation, there is now a two-month countdown for a candidate to step up with a new bid before parliament is dissolved and fresh elections called.

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]]>OSCAR DEL POZO<![CDATA[Steven Pinker: “Populists are on the dark side of history”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/08/10/inenglish/1533891923_463671.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/08/10/inenglish/1533891923_463671.htmlFri, 10 Aug 2018 16:45:31 +0000It was some time ago that Steven Pinker, 63, dispensed with God. As a teenager growing up in Montreal, Canada, he realized he didn’t need Him at all. “When I began to think about the world, I couldn’t find a place for Him and I realized that He wasn’t even useful as a theory,” he explains.

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]]><![CDATA[OAS chief: “The Americas are cutting out their corrupted parts”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/04/12/inenglish/1523522691_665516.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/04/12/inenglish/1523522691_665516.htmlThu, 12 Apr 2018 11:19:04 +0000Things are starting to shift in the Americas. Three years ago, the thaw in US-Cuban relations and the specter of recession were at the center of media attention. But a political storm is now sweeping the continent, and its effects are taking several forms – from the Donald Trump presidency and the drawn-out crisis in Venezuela, to the wave of corruption-related resignations and jailings.

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]]><![CDATA[Trump worshipers in the American heartland]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/11/06/inenglish/1509966800_209960.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/11/06/inenglish/1509966800_209960.htmlTue, 07 Nov 2017 14:49:22 +0000Lebanon, a town of 203 people in the geographical center of the United States, has been forgotten. It’s a place lost in the immense plains of Kansas, where history is a thing of the past.

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]]>XAVIER DUSSAQ<![CDATA[US Senate addresses Russian interference in Catalonia on social media]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/11/03/inenglish/1509707476_016214.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/11/03/inenglish/1509707476_016214.htmlFri, 03 Nov 2017 13:50:00 +0000“We know the Russians were involved in the French election. We know that they were involved in the German elections. We are now learning they were involved in the separation of Spain,” said the independent senator from Maine, Angus S. King.

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]]>ALEX WONG<![CDATA[One US county’s solution to drug epidemic: let addicts die]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/07/25/inenglish/1500994369_980611.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/07/25/inenglish/1500994369_980611.htmlTue, 25 Jul 2017 16:10:38 +0000John Wayne, Muhammad Ali, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

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]]>Spencer Platt<![CDATA[The Trump era: democracy dies in darkness]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/02/28/inenglish/1488294956_260098.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/02/28/inenglish/1488294956_260098.htmlTue, 28 Feb 2017 15:57:29 +0000Nothing is safe under the new president. The White House is too small for him. He finds the rules of the game irritating. Even the planet itself is not to his liking. “Things are really bad out there,” he often says. There has been some speculation that the billionaire might end up with a depression in view of such a multitude of problems. But his reaction has been quite different. Aided by his chief strategist, the shadowy Steve Bannon, he has begun “the deconstruction of the system” and announced that he wants to resume the nuclear arms race.

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]]><![CDATA[Mexican president calls off trip to Washington over Trump border wall]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/26/inenglish/1485430848_173246.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/26/inenglish/1485430848_173246.htmlThu, 26 Jan 2017 17:43:46 +0000Earlier in the day, Donald Trump threatened to cancel the planned visit by Peña Nieto if his government wouldn’t pay for the border wall the new US president wants to build between the two countries.“The U.S. has a 60 billion dollar trade deficit with Mexico,” Trump wrote via Twitter on Thursday. “It has been a one-sided deal from the beginning of NAFTA with massive numbers... of jobs and companies lost. If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting.”

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]]>Mario Guzmán<![CDATA[Eighth arrest made in hunt for killer of environmentalist Berta Cáceres]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/16/inenglish/1484565802_632640.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/16/inenglish/1484565802_632640.htmlMon, 16 Jan 2017 12:23:32 +0000Cáceres was killed on March 2, 2016 in La Esperanza, located to the west of Tegucigalpa. The murder shocked the world, and prompted the United States, the United Nations, the Vatican and Venezuela to demand that the killing be properly investigated.

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]]><![CDATA[US intelligence services issue warning over instability in Mexico]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/13/inenglish/1484304111_431189.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/13/inenglish/1484304111_431189.htmlFri, 13 Jan 2017 11:55:55 +0000In this context, Mexican voters could take a left turn once the current president, the deeply unpopular Enrique Peña Nieto, finishes his current and final term, according to a new report from the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence, a bureau set up in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York to coordinate the operations of the country’s secret service agencies.

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]]>E.C.<![CDATA[Bank of Mexico cuts growth forecasts after Trump victory]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/24/inenglish/1479982046_676325.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/24/inenglish/1479982046_676325.htmlThu, 24 Nov 2016 13:29:25 +0000“Right now, this is a world that is rich in uncertainty,” Bank of Mexico Governor Agustin Carstens said at a news conference in Mexico City, adding that he thought the current volatility in markets was a temporary phenomenon. “The problem isn’t mitigating volatility, but dealing with a deep shock,” he added.

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]]><![CDATA[Mexico’s economy braces for the chill winds of a Trump administration]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/18/inenglish/1479460729_499836.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/18/inenglish/1479460729_499836.htmlFri, 18 Nov 2016 14:02:48 +0000Trump has threatened not only to deport millions of undocumented Mexicans and build a wall along the border, but also to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and slap a 35% tax on US companies that outsource to Mexico.

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]]><![CDATA[Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas: “Trump is a boor, he is hostile to Mexicans”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/17/inenglish/1479380184_739188.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/17/inenglish/1479380184_739188.htmlThu, 17 Nov 2016 15:21:34 +0000Two years ago, in the midst of the Iguala student crisis, he walked away from the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) that he had himself founded after squaring off with a leadership that refused to address the trainee teacher tragedy.

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]]>Saúl Ruiz<![CDATA[Found: Mystery pyramid hidden within iconic Mayan temple]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/17/inenglish/1479374501_665243.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/17/inenglish/1479374501_665243.htmlThu, 17 Nov 2016 12:56:49 +0000Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have found a third pyramid nestling within the famous 30-meter-high Temple of Kukulkan at the country’s vast Mayan archeological site known as Chichén Itzá.

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]]><![CDATA[Mysterious Frida Kahlo painting turns up after six decades in hiding]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/16/inenglish/1479288051_310948.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/16/inenglish/1479288051_310948.htmlWed, 16 Nov 2016 11:31:47 +0000A mysterious painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo which had been in hiding for more than 60 years is to go on sale at Sotheby’s in New York.

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]]>SHANNON STAPLETON<![CDATA[Vatican slaps down anti-gay movement led by Mexican bishops]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/09/inenglish/1478691555_845843.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/09/inenglish/1478691555_845843.htmlWed, 09 Nov 2016 12:58:19 +0000Pope Francis has ordered a cessation of hostilities in Mexico. In a show of force, the Vatican’s representative in the country has publicly rejected support for rallies protesting against same-sex marriage planned by conservative sectors of the Catholic Church.

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]]><![CDATA[Mexico baffled by the identity of mysterious bus avenger]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/04/inenglish/1478260307_176696.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/04/inenglish/1478260307_176696.htmlFri, 04 Nov 2016 12:31:47 +0000Sitting in the back, this individual waited for the thieves to take all the passengers’ possessions, then executed them one by one.

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]]><![CDATA[48 murders later, the “Little Old Lady Killer” files for divorce]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/28/inenglish/1477664259_338763.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/28/inenglish/1477664259_338763.htmlFri, 28 Oct 2016 16:43:12 +0000Juan Barraza Samperio, a 59-year-old inmate, is preparing tacos in Santa Martha de Acatitla prison. She sells them in the courtyard from Monday to Wednesday. Her specialty is the Yucatan delicacy cochinita pibil, a slow-roasted spicy pork dish. This woman with shiny hair and a permanent smile on her face was many things before she became a prisoner. She was devoted to Santa Muerte, sold popcorn and even competed in wrestling matches under the stage name “La Dama del Silencio,” or The Lady of Silence. But the activity that took up most of her energy and earned her a place in history was her predilection for killing elderly women.

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]]>EFE<![CDATA[Mexican drug lord’s wife: “El Chapo will be dead by December”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/26/inenglish/1477478592_190856.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/26/inenglish/1477478592_190856.htmlWed, 26 Oct 2016 12:36:56 +0000The world’s biggest drug trafficker, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, aka El Chapo, will be dead by December. That’s according to his wife, Emma Coronel, who made the claim after visiting the head of the Sinaloa cartel inside the Ciudad Juárez penitentiary in northern Mexico, near the border with the United States.

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]]><![CDATA[Mexican president admits Donald Trump visit was a mistake]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/25/inenglish/1477390641_936993.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/25/inenglish/1477390641_936993.htmlTue, 25 Oct 2016 12:12:32 +0000Mexico’s President Enrique Peña has admitted he made a mistake when he invited Donald Trump to visit his country in August, describing the decision as “hasty.”

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]]><![CDATA[Mexican army suffering from burnout as 10-year drug war takes its toll]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/21/inenglish/1477038691_385830.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/21/inenglish/1477038691_385830.htmlTue, 25 Oct 2016 09:14:01 +0000“There is a drain [on the army], and it’s obvious why: we are working all over the country, at all times, in the mountains and in the cities,” said the high-ranking official at a seminar on national defense.

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]]><![CDATA[Is the end nigh for ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel?]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/18/inenglish/1476782392_318288.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/18/inenglish/1476782392_318288.htmlTue, 18 Oct 2016 12:32:31 +0000Now Aureliano Guzmán, El Chapo’s older brother, has stepped into the breach: he is reported to have organized a deadly attack on a military convoy in Culiacán, Sinaloa, on September 30, that left five soldiers dead.

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]]><![CDATA[The Mexican town that even the federal government fears]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/07/inenglish/1475837204_638602.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/07/inenglish/1475837204_638602.htmlFri, 07 Oct 2016 12:37:23 +0000That the Mexican federal government is basically a matter of fiction in certain parts of the country may be explained in several ways. For example, take a car ride to visit the ostensibly idyllic small town of Turícuaro (3,000 residents), in the heart of the volcanic state of Michoacán.

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]]>Francisco Cañedo<![CDATA[How the specter of Trump is rattling the Mexican peso]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/03/inenglish/1475502495_531647.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/03/inenglish/1475502495_531647.htmlMon, 03 Oct 2016 14:29:16 +0000These fears run deep. The peso is showing signs of weaknesses that analysts believed it had overcome. It has lost 25% of its value in less than a year and, two weeks ago, it officially became the most battered currency in the world when it sank below 20 pesos per dollar, breaking its historic low. In Mexico, a country that watches the movements of its currency on the market as a sick man might watch his heart rate, the collapse is seen as a dark omen. “If Trump’s words become reality, there will be a catastrophe,” says Raúl Feliz, a professor at the Center for Research and Teaching of Economics (CIDE). “Tariffs and walls would lead to a tremendous recession and sink the peso.”

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]]>Hugo Ortuño<![CDATA[Mexican president’s Coca-Cola joke falls flat]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/29/inenglish/1475153745_379277.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/29/inenglish/1475153745_379277.htmlThu, 29 Sep 2016 13:47:21 +0000The president was not wearing a tie. He was sporting a blue jacket, white shirt and that perfect smile he usually wears for public and official events. He walked up to to the podium to speak at the opening ceremony of a center for innovation created by the well-known soft drinks company and said it.

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]]>Richard Drew<![CDATA[Archbishop of Mexico City: “A child is more likely to suffer sexual abuse at the hands of a homosexual father”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/27/inenglish/1474979127_137525.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/27/inenglish/1474979127_137525.htmlTue, 27 Sep 2016 14:26:47 +0000The powerful archdiocese of Mexico added fuel to the already inflamed debate about gay rights on Sunday after its weekly magazine, Desde la fe (In faith), published an article by one of the leading conservative voices of the country’s Roman Catholic Church.

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]]><![CDATA[UN: “The Ayotzinapa case remains unsolved”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/22/inenglish/1474557279_255353.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/22/inenglish/1474557279_255353.htmlThu, 22 Sep 2016 16:21:10 +0000Jan Jarab, the representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico, was unequivocal on Wednesday in Ayotzinapa. Speaking on the second anniversary of the disappearance of 43 student teachers from the town, he stated that the case remains unsolved. “And it can’t go unpunished,” he added.

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]]>ALFREDO ESTRELLA<![CDATA[US and Latin America baffled by Spain’s political impasse]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/20/inenglish/1474359049_599381.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/20/inenglish/1474359049_599381.htmlTue, 20 Sep 2016 08:58:22 +0000The lack of a government in Spain is puzzling many people in the United States and Latin America, given the ongoing political stalemate, which has lasted nine months already, combined with a steadily improving economy.

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]]>emilio naranjo<![CDATA[Mexican drug lord’s extradition moves forward despite delaying tactics]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/16/inenglish/1474023845_165254.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/16/inenglish/1474023845_165254.htmlFri, 16 Sep 2016 11:36:43 +0000Mexican drug lord Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán will take one step closer to being sent for trial in the United States on September 26 when a court in Mexico City hears an extradition request from the US authorities.

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]]>PGR<![CDATA[After Mexico visit, Trump takes hardest line yet against immigration]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/01/inenglish/1472730871_532750.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/01/inenglish/1472730871_532750.htmlThu, 01 Sep 2016 12:29:49 +0000On Wednesday, Donald Trump set foot in the land that he has offended the most.

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]]><![CDATA[Trump makes surprise visit to Mexico despite months of verbal attacks]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/08/31/inenglish/1472646972_818710.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/08/31/inenglish/1472646972_818710.htmlWed, 31 Aug 2016 13:18:55 +0000Donald Trump has made a surprise move. Just hours before his big speech against immigration into the United States, the multi-millionaire Republican candidate for the presidency will try to clean up his controversial image with a lightning trip to Mexico. Although the visit will be private, the meeting on Wednesday with President Enrique Peña Nieto reveals the ability of Trump to grab the political initiative.

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]]>Gerald Herbert<![CDATA[For Mexico’s troubled Pemex, deeper debt seems the only option]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/18/inenglish/1468838962_349358.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/18/inenglish/1468838962_349358.htmlMon, 18 Jul 2016 13:26:20 +0000Amid falling output, continuing losses and mounting debt, Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil company, has once again had to borrow money to remain operating. On Friday, it announced it had raised 80 billion yen ($771 million) on a 10-year loan from the Japanese capital market, pushing the company’s long-term debt to $65 billion, equivalent to almost half its total liabilities.

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]]><![CDATA[Another environmentalist killed in Honduras in wake of Berta Cáceres murder]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/08/inenglish/1467983365_439486.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/08/inenglish/1467983365_439486.htmlFri, 08 Jul 2016 15:22:59 +0000Honduras is a killing field for environmentalists. Four months after the murder of environmentalist leader Berta Cáceres, her colleague and fellow activist Lesbia Yaneth Urquía was kidnapped and killed.

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]]><![CDATA[A journey to the home of fentanyl, the drug that killed Prince]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/05/inenglish/1467716324_130194.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/05/inenglish/1467716324_130194.htmlTue, 05 Jul 2016 13:25:07 +0000Filo de Caballos is a hamlet stuck in the backbone of the Guerrero mountains. There are 900 residents and no cellphone reception. On these steep hillsides, far from the Mexican army’s prying eyes, practically nothing happens without the drug bosses knowing about it.

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]]><![CDATA[Armed group loots home of El Chapo’s mother in Sinaloa]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/06/16/inenglish/1466092319_737393.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/06/16/inenglish/1466092319_737393.htmlThu, 16 Jun 2016 16:36:30 +0000Something terrible has happened in the dark world of drug trafficking. A group of 150 armed men broke into the recondite community in La Tuna (Sinaloa), according to first accounts of the events, and looted the mansion of the mother of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, El Chapo. The attack on this sacred turf of the most powerful drug dealer in the world left a trail of blood and terror. According to Ríodoce, at least three people died of gunshot wounds while other sources say there were eight casualties.

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]]>Univisión<![CDATA[Mexican bullfighter left tetraplegic in ring succumbs to his injuries]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/06/03/inenglish/1464966009_760168.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/06/03/inenglish/1464966009_760168.htmlFri, 03 Jun 2016 15:54:30 +0000Rodolfo “El Pana” Rodríguez has died. The bullfighter drew his last breath at 6.45pm on the eighth floor of the Hospital Civil in Guadalajara, surrounded by his family and medical staff. He was 64 years old. According to the hospital, his pneumonia worsened, before he suffered a fatal heart attack.

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]]><![CDATA[Badly injured Mexican bullfighter asks doctors to let him die]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/05/20/inenglish/1463744820_440223.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/05/20/inenglish/1463744820_440223.htmlFri, 20 May 2016 12:47:38 +0000A Mexican bullfighter who was badly injured on May 2 is asking doctors to let him die.

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]]><![CDATA[How Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres was murdered]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/25/inenglish/1461569760_840184.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/25/inenglish/1461569760_840184.htmlMon, 25 Apr 2016 14:24:31 +0000It was angular, shiny and big. He could make out nothing else, except that the weapon was just two meters away and pointing at his face. Gustavo Castro threw himself to one side of the bed and instinctively covered himself with his hands. The gunman was going to kill him; he could see it in his eyes and from the way he fingered the trigger. The bullet, when it came, scraped the knuckle of his left index finger and caught his left ear, missing his forehead by a fraction. His ear bled so copiously his killer believed him to be dead.

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]]><![CDATA[Drug cartels “rule half of Mexico’s prisons,” new report reveals]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/14/inenglish/1460640287_474129.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/14/inenglish/1460640287_474129.htmlThu, 14 Apr 2016 16:23:58 +0000More than half of Mexico’s prisons (54%) are effectively run by powerful drugs cartels, according to a report by the country’s National Human Rights Commission. “Inmates exercise control over the rest of the prisoners through violence,” reads the study, which blames cartel members for the Topo Chico riot in Monterrey in February in which 49 men were killed, some of them decapitated.

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]]><![CDATA[“El Chapo” launches multiple appeals in bid to delay extradition to US]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/08/inenglish/1460117521_489132.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/08/inenglish/1460117521_489132.htmlFri, 08 Apr 2016 13:53:04 +0000Few things strike fear into the heart of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán more than the prospect of spending the rest of his life locked away in a maximum security facility in the United States, and the drug kingpin is prepared to go to any lengths to prevent that from happening. In the three months following his arrest in Mexico, he has already presented seven appeals for protection against extradition. Over the same period he has lodged another 14 appeals aimed at improving the conditions he is being held under in prison, all of which have been dismissed by the Mexican authorities as delaying tactics. “All he needs to do is to accept extradition and the next day we’d send him to the United States,” says a source at the attorney general’s office.

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]]>AFP<![CDATA[Mexico goes on the offensive against Donald Trump]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/07/inenglish/1460039555_564783.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/07/inenglish/1460039555_564783.htmlThu, 07 Apr 2016 15:41:55 +0000Mexico has decided to confront the Donald Trump phenomenon. The time for silence, for biting one’s tongue and waiting for the storm to pass is over. The administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto has shifted its strategy, and is now making significant changes in diplomacy in response to the Republican presidential hopeful’s xenophobic campaign. The move is part of a plan to reverse the unprecedented levels of political tension between Mexico and the United States.

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]]>SCOTT OLSON<![CDATA[Kate del Castillo tells her side of the ‘El Chapo’ story in purple prose]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/03/15/inenglish/1458049947_514109.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/03/15/inenglish/1458049947_514109.htmlTue, 15 Mar 2016 17:30:03 +0000Kate del Castillo is sweating, quivering and her head is about to explode. The first time is when she receives a message from El Chapo through his lawyers. Then it’s when they are planning to make a film together. And then the third time is when she locks eyes with the most powerful drug dealer in the world. “A mini heart attack, I want to die,” she recalls in an article published on Sunday in the Mexican magazine Proceso. The actress, who is known for her portrayal of femme fatale Teresa Mendoza in the soap opera La Reina del Sur, has written a sensationalist tale about her relationship with the Sinaloa cartel boss. A series of saccharine descriptions of memories and sensations and poetic overtures that gloss over – as her travel buddy Sean Penn did in his Rolling Stone article – the dark side of the beast. The mass murders, torture of police officers and hitmen, the crimes that overwhelmed Ciudad Juárez and much of Mexico – all because of Joaquín Guzmán Loera’s greed.

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]]><![CDATA[Low water levels reveal submerged 16th-century temple in Mexico]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/03/11/inenglish/1457703892_055461.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/03/11/inenglish/1457703892_055461.htmlMon, 14 Mar 2016 08:23:29 +0000When a temple emerges in Jalapa del Marqués, the people know difficult days lay ahead. The 16th-century Dominican structure only surfaces during drought years, which means less fishing and smaller harvests for this small Oaxaca town, located deep in the south of the country. It also means more hunger.

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]]><![CDATA[Mexico’s Iñárritu takes second Oscar win in row in times of Trump]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/02/29/inenglish/1456744568_298560.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/02/29/inenglish/1456744568_298560.htmlMon, 29 Feb 2016 12:45:05 +0000Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu went a long way to cementing his status as a movie legend after picking up his second Best Director Oscar in a row at last night’s ceremony in Los Angeles.

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]]><![CDATA[Prison uprising in northern Mexico leaves 49 dead]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/02/11/inenglish/1455202214_678454.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/02/11/inenglish/1455202214_678454.htmlThu, 11 Feb 2016 16:08:20 +0000Forty-nine people have been killed in a violent prison riot that broke out before dawn at a Mexican state penitentiary in Monterrey on Thursday.

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]]><![CDATA[‘El Chapo’ Guzmán — the most heavily guarded prisoner in the world]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/20/inenglish/1453287284_598334.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/20/inenglish/1453287284_598334.htmlWed, 20 Jan 2016 13:20:55 +0000There is perhaps no other man in the world who is now more heavily guarded than Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán.

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]]>Loret de Mola<![CDATA[Spanish and Argentinean producers also met ‘El Chapo,’ says Mexico]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/15/inenglish/1452852713_166964.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/15/inenglish/1452852713_166964.htmlFri, 15 Jan 2016 11:30:41 +0000A Spanish and an Argentinean film producer accompanied actors Sean Penn and Kate del Castillo last October during their secret meeting with Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán Loera, official sources in Mexico have revealed.

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]]>conexionbrando.com<![CDATA[Let’s not forget about the dead journalists, Mr Penn]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/14/inenglish/1452766827_378501.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/14/inenglish/1452766827_378501.htmlThu, 14 Jan 2016 14:00:56 +0000He’s a tough guy with a tender side; an ugly man who’s nevertheless attractive; and an actor who throws out the truth like punches.

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]]>Matt Winkelmeyer<![CDATA[Mexico mulls calling Sean Penn in to testify over ‘El Chapo’ meeting]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/11/inenglish/1452511985_424200.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/11/inenglish/1452511985_424200.htmlMon, 11 Jan 2016 14:21:58 +0000Mexican authorities are studying whether to call US actor Sean Penn in to testify over his clandestine meeting last October with Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán for an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

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]]><![CDATA[Mexican president announces capture of drug lord “El Chapo” Guzmán]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/08/inenglish/1452280764_957198.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/08/inenglish/1452280764_957198.htmlFri, 08 Jan 2016 20:15:26 +0000Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, the world’s most-wanted drug lord, has been arrested in Mexico, according to government sources.

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]]>HENRY ROMERO<![CDATA[Spanish exiles’ historic cultural center in Mexico City faces closure]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/12/17/inenglish/1450356513_967113.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/12/17/inenglish/1450356513_967113.htmlThu, 17 Dec 2015 16:17:31 +0000The Ateneo Español cultural center in Mexico City – founded by Republican exiles such as poet León Felipe, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and composer Rodolfo Halffter to promote Spanish culture and science after the Civil War – is on the verge of financial collapse.

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]]>Archivo general de México<![CDATA[Guatemala’s jailed ex-leader: “I didn’t want any deaths just to save my skin”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/12/15/inenglish/1450183201_216345.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/12/15/inenglish/1450183201_216345.htmlTue, 15 Dec 2015 15:11:35 +0000Until recently, Otto Pérez Molina was the president of Guatemala. Today, he is inmate number one at the Mariscal Zavala military prison where he is awaiting his trial on corruption charges.

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]]>josé elías<![CDATA[Financial problems put ‘The New York Times’ expansion plans on hold]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/12/inenglish/1447323904_195513.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/12/inenglish/1447323904_195513.htmlThu, 12 Nov 2015 10:56:42 +0000The global crisis that has hit the media over recent years has even reached prestigious titles such as The New York Times, whose efforts to expand internationally have been conditioned by financial difficulties.

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]]>A. B.<![CDATA[Mexico ruling opens door for legalization of marijuana]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/05/inenglish/1446718967_776785.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/05/inenglish/1446718967_776785.htmlThu, 05 Nov 2015 13:59:08 +0000Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said Wednesday night that he “respects and accepts” a Supreme Court panel’s ruling that opens the door for the legalization of marijuana use for recreational purposes.

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]]><![CDATA[Why Mexico is one of the world’s most dangerous places for reporters]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/03/inenglish/1446550838_940577.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/03/inenglish/1446550838_940577.htmlTue, 03 Nov 2015 16:23:15 +0000On the night of January 2, a group of armed men wearing hoods broke into the home of the editor of a small community weekly in Medellín Bravo, Veracruz state, and pulled him from his bed.

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]]>C. JASSO<![CDATA[Four bombs explode simultaneously on a busy Mexican bus route]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/02/inenglish/1446479665_959812.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/02/inenglish/1446479665_959812.htmlMon, 02 Nov 2015 16:35:17 +0000Four homemade bombs exploded early on Saturday morning destroying several buses used on a busy route in one of Mexico’s most violent states, officials said.

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]]><![CDATA[Former TV comedian captures Guatemalan presidency by a landslide]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/26/inenglish/1445868838_040601.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/26/inenglish/1445868838_040601.htmlMon, 26 Oct 2015 16:02:48 +0000A 46-year-old former television comedian who has never held an elected post was swept into office as Guatemala’s new president on Sunday.

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]]>JORGE DAN LOPEZ<![CDATA[Dig at Mexican ruins reveals the ritual sacrifice of a Spanish expedition]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/15/inenglish/1444909880_667779.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/15/inenglish/1444909880_667779.htmlThu, 15 Oct 2015 13:59:47 +0000A recent dig at a pre-Hispanic site outside Mexico City has uncovered new revelations about the fate of 550 people who accompanied Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés during his 16th-century conquest of Mexico.

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]]><![CDATA[First results point to victory for PRI and its allies in Mexican midterms]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/08/inenglish/1433766634_687081.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/08/inenglish/1433766634_687081.htmlTue, 13 Oct 2015 21:42:00 +0000Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) appeared to be headed toward controlling the lower house of Congress on Monday after voters went to the polls in midterm elections held amid widespread anger over corruption, a poor-performing economy and drug violence.

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]]><![CDATA[Mexico hands over 13 dangerous criminals to US authorities]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/01/inenglish/1443690643_042001.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/01/inenglish/1443690643_042001.htmlThu, 01 Oct 2015 10:17:39 +0000Mexico extradited 13 dangerous suspects wanted on federal charges related to drug-trafficking and murder to the United States on Wednesday, in a move aimed at restoring confidence and cooperation with Washington in law enforcement matters.

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]]><![CDATA[Mexico’s Peña Nieto meets Iguala parents and vows to “search for truth”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/25/inenglish/1443176144_201649.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/25/inenglish/1443176144_201649.htmlFri, 25 Sep 2015 12:29:39 +0000Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto placed himself directly in the line of fire on Thursday by agreeing to meet for the first time angry family members of the 43 teaching students who were reportedly massacred one year ago following a protest in Iguala, Guerrero state.

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]]><![CDATA[Mexico confirms identity of second missing student teacher]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/17/inenglish/1442503729_699973.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/17/inenglish/1442503729_699973.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2015 16:12:19 +0000He was 20 years old, his name was Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz, and his name has just been crossed off the list of student teachers from Ayotzinapa who have been missing in Iguala since September 26, 2014. It has now been added to the list of the dead.

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]]>Pedro PARDO<![CDATA[“When you do politics in Guatemala you risk being assassinated”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/08/inenglish/1441719099_250817.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/08/inenglish/1441719099_250817.htmlTue, 08 Sep 2015 14:19:58 +0000Jimmy Morales is light-hearted and euphoric when he meets with EL PAÍS. He is wearing the national soccer team’s jersey – “I follow them wherever they go” – and is smiling as he eats a chocolate muffin on the ninth floor of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. A few hours ago, Guatemalan authorities officially announced him as the winner of the first round of this year’s presidential elections. He is the great surprise in Latin America right now. Morales rose in the polls and then won by a fluke, propelled by the civil unrest over the corruption scandal that toppled former President Otto Pérez Molina and his vice president, Roxana Baldetti.

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]]>E. F.<![CDATA[Comedian wins first round in Guatemala’s presidential elections]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/07/inenglish/1441638579_642089.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/07/inenglish/1441638579_642089.htmlMon, 07 Sep 2015 16:35:56 +0000A 46-year-old Guatemalan comedian has taken the lead in the first round of the country’s presidential election with 25 percent of the vote. As Guatemala grapples with the effects of the civil unrest that led to the imprisonment of former President Otto Pérez Molina, Jimmy Morales, armed with an anti-politics message, has taken advantage of this desire for change and an extraordinary voter turnout: 80 percent of the population cast their ballot in Sunday’s election.

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]]>JORGE DAN LOPEZ<![CDATA[Five security breaches (or mistakes) that helped ‘El Chapo’ escape]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/20/inenglish/1437392342_509403.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/20/inenglish/1437392342_509403.htmlMon, 20 Jul 2015 13:53:19 +0000Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán Loera is, for now, a free man. While Mexican President Enrique Peña’s government is still reeling from the devastating blow it received when the notorious Sinaloa cartel leader made his daring escape on July 18, authorities have no doubt that the former convict had inside help.

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]]>Marco Ugarte<![CDATA[‘El Chapo’ leaves behind a sparrow]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/16/inenglish/1437050669_918295.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/16/inenglish/1437050669_918295.htmlThu, 16 Jul 2015 16:11:56 +0000The spectacular escape of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán from a maximum security prison in Mexico is shrouded in mystery.

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]]><![CDATA[Security camera footage of El Chapo’s escape released by Mexican authorities]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/15/inenglish/1436962255_501491.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/15/inenglish/1436962255_501491.htmlWed, 15 Jul 2015 13:09:41 +0000Saturday, July 11. 8.52pm. El Altiplano maximum security prison. Special inmate number 3578 approaches the shower area. That part of his cell is out of the range of the security camera, for privacy reasons. He moves nervously. Moments before, he had sat on his bed and then stood up; then sat down again, and stood up once more. He stretches out his pants. He paces the floor rapidly. Then he does so again. Finally, he changes his shoes and returns to the shower room. He squats down. That’s the last time he’s seen on the camera. Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera has fled. One of the world’s most important drug lords has slipped through the tunnel that had been dug under his feet. But that’s not all – the Mexican government has also just suffered its greatest defeat, leaving it humiliated as never before. The country would wake up on Sunday morning with a collective sense of shame.

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]]><![CDATA[“There will be no rest for El Chapo,” vows Mexican security chief]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/14/inenglish/1436875386_702957.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/14/inenglish/1436875386_702957.htmlTue, 14 Jul 2015 14:10:43 +0000The fallout from the daring escape of drug kingpin Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán from a maximum security prison continued on Tuesday, with opposition leaders demanding the resignation of Mexico’s top security chief.

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]]><![CDATA[Political storm brewing in Mexico after “El Chapo’s” prison escape]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/13/inenglish/1436784065_314732.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/13/inenglish/1436784065_314732.htmlMon, 13 Jul 2015 13:37:10 +0000The daring escape of the world’s most notorious drug trafficker, Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán Loera, from a maximum security prison this past weekend in Mexico has put the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto in a delicate position.

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]]><![CDATA[The shocking killing of Guadalupe’s last police officer]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/09/inenglish/1436450860_631454.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/09/inenglish/1436450860_631454.htmlThu, 09 Jul 2015 16:03:21 +0000There is now no one left to uphold the law in Guadalupe, a small municipality near the US border in Mexico’s Chihuahua state.

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]]>STRINGER/MEXICO<![CDATA[Mexican teachers bound and shaved for following education reform]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/08/inenglish/1436351264_931779.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/08/inenglish/1436351264_931779.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2015 14:48:06 +0000Violent protests that broke out in several Mexican states last month over President Enrique Peña Nieto’s controversial education reform have reached new heights with radical groups now chasing down teachers who try to comply with the new law.

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]]>Twitter<![CDATA[A single Spanish language proficiency certificate for the whole planet]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/01/inenglish/1435746068_261485.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/01/inenglish/1435746068_261485.htmlWed, 01 Jul 2015 11:50:09 +0000Students of a foreign language usually have a globally recognized test that they can take to demonstrate their skill level: English has its Cambridge-awarded Proficiency, French has its DALF, German has its Goethe-Zertifikat... But not so Spanish.

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]]>Marco Ugarte<![CDATA[King Felipe: “Mexico is respected, well-known and well-liked in Spain”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/30/inenglish/1435670298_295133.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/30/inenglish/1435670298_295133.htmlTue, 30 Jun 2015 15:39:47 +0000Seventy-six years after the Mexican government welcomed the first Spanish Republican exiles, on Monday night King Felipe VI paid homage to those who fled Spain during and following the 1936-39 Civil War, as part of his first state visit to Mexico.

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]]>EDGARD GARRIDO<![CDATA[The Mexican oil treasure found by a fisherman]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/29/inenglish/1435582397_411669.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/29/inenglish/1435582397_411669.htmlMon, 29 Jun 2015 15:51:19 +0000It was July 1961 when Rudesindo Cantarell Jiménez saw something strange while he was fishing in the Bay of Campeche, in the south of the Gulf of Mexico.

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]]>Reuters<![CDATA[An open letter to Donald Trump from the daughter of a Mexican migrant]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/29/inenglish/1435585764_840064.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/29/inenglish/1435585764_840064.htmlMon, 29 Jun 2015 14:22:51 +0000Some live in a fantasy world, others live in reality. Adriana Almanza has no doubt as to where she stands.

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]]>FACEBOOK<![CDATA[Margarita Zavala: “President Peña Nieto has a tamed opposition”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/18/inenglish/1434622613_516729.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/18/inenglish/1434622613_516729.htmlThu, 18 Jun 2015 14:37:14 +0000In Mexico’s poker match of politics, former first lady Margarita Zavala is betting everything on one card.

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]]>FRANCISCO CAÑEDO<![CDATA[Seven arguments (with statistics) to shut Donald Trump up about Mexico]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/18/inenglish/1434585986_087400.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/18/inenglish/1434585986_087400.htmlThu, 18 Jun 2015 00:30:14 +0000Donald Trump does not represent the United States and drug trafficking does not represent Mexico. Beyond the stereotypes, there is a deep and mutually beneficial relationship between the two countries. The American mogul’s invectives calling for the construction of a wall to hold back the US’s supposedly lazy and dangerous neighbors fall within the sphere of xenophobic demagoguery and crumble under the least bit of analysis. Here are seven arguments – with statistics – to shut Trump up.

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]]>Drew<![CDATA[PRI retains control of Mexico’s lower chamber with support from its allies]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/16/inenglish/1434447165_954045.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/16/inenglish/1434447165_954045.htmlTue, 16 Jun 2015 10:53:44 +0000President Enrique Peña Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) will become the dominant force in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies with support from its two political allies, according to preliminary race results from the June 7 midterm elections.

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]]><![CDATA[The secret grave of Hernán Cortés]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/04/inenglish/1433425018_375976.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/04/inenglish/1433425018_375976.htmlThu, 04 Jun 2015 16:18:40 +0000One of the biggest mysteries surrounding the life and legacy of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés has been his final resting place.

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]]><![CDATA[Mexican mid-term election candidate killed by gunmen]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/03/inenglish/1433334463_691067.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/03/inenglish/1433334463_691067.htmlWed, 03 Jun 2015 14:11:21 +0000A Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) candidate running to become a Mexican national deputy was gunned down at his campaign office by a group of armed men on Wednesday, just four days before voters go to the polls in mid-term elections.

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]]><![CDATA[Six-year-old’s brutal murder at hands of other children shocks Mexico]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/05/20/inenglish/1432129137_969565.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/05/20/inenglish/1432129137_969565.htmlWed, 20 May 2015 14:59:32 +0000Mexico has been shaken by the violent death of a six-year-old boy who was reportedly tortured, stoned and stabbed to death by two cousins and three other friends, all aged between 11 and 15, in a small shantytown in the northern state of Chihuahua.

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]]><![CDATA[$300m Mexican telecoms satellite destroyed after Russian rocket fails]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/05/18/inenglish/1431950001_865772.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/05/18/inenglish/1431950001_865772.htmlMon, 18 May 2015 12:41:50 +0000It took just 490 seconds on Sunday morning for Mexico’s pride in its technological progress to be shattered into a million pieces. Around $390 million worth of hardware went up in flames in the early hours of Sunday, when a Russian Proton-M rocket exploded while carrying the telecommunications satellite Centenario into orbit. The cause of the accident remains unknown.

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]]><![CDATA[Mexican police capture Juárez drug cartel’s notorious “liquidator”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/04/20/inenglish/1429533525_885598.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/04/20/inenglish/1429533525_885598.htmlMon, 20 Apr 2015 14:57:25 +0000When it came to being a drug leader, Jesús Salas Aguayo of the Juárez Cartel had no comparison.

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]]>PGR<![CDATA[Ex-Spanish PMs Aznar and González unite to condemn Venezuela abuses]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/04/10/inenglish/1428673042_403136.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/04/10/inenglish/1428673042_403136.htmlFri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:19 +0000Politics in Venezuela operates much like a boxing ring: not a day goes by without a blow being landed and, for the moment, there is no end to the bout in sight.

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