El Roto
El Roto cartoon, July 7, 2021
The unknown winners of Mexico’s energy reform
Isabella Cota / Adam Williams|
An investigation by EL PAÍS reveals how an obscure US company, just months after being created, began winning multimillion-dollar contracts from a subsidiary of Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) soon after the opening of the country’s electricity sector. The ties between Guillermo Turrent, a key executive during the Enrique Peña Nieto administration, and the founders of Whitewater Midstream, tell the story of a pursuit of profits in recently liberalized energy markets
Spain approves sweeping sexual violence protection bill: ‘We don’t want any woman to feel alone’
The future ‘Only Yes Means Yes’ law will consider sex acts without explicit consent as rape, and provide financial assistance to victims of abuse
Vox posts Twitter message making veiled threat against publisher of satirical magazine ‘El Jueves’
The publication had featured a series of caricatures of the far-right group’s leaders, including co-founder and former ETA hostage José Antonio Ortega Lara
Three arrested over alleged homophobic killing of Samuel Luiz in Galicia
Police sources described how a “human pack” kicked the 24-year-old nurse 150 meters down the street until finally beating him where he lay
Spain’s regions move to reintroduce coronavirus measures as infections continue to spike
The latest report included 14,137 new infections, and added 18 fatalities to the overall death toll. The two-week incidence of the virus rose 20 points in a day to 225