Mexico’s murder rate: a snapshot of a debate
President Claudia Sheinbaum is celebrating a reduction in homicides of over 50%. However, experts urge caution when looking at the statistics, and demand that more attention be paid to the big picture
Held in hotels or detained for a year after being deported to Africa: ‘This is called human trafficking’
EL PAÍS spoke with a dozen migrants from Cuba, Honduras, Brazil and Colombia who were sent by the US to Africa and remain in a legal limbo with scant medical assistance and no knowledge of what will happen to them
How to navigate William S. Burroughs in the 21st century
The most controversial and cryptic of the Beat writers, the author was an unrepentant, legendary junkie (and, allegedly, an accidental killer). Today, there is renewed interest in his books, at a time when separating the work from the novelist is becoming increasingly difficult
The story of the Barcelona DJ who spent five years in a Panamanian prison
Professor Angel Dust was a key figure in the Catalan nightclub scene of the 1990s. He recounts how he became entangled in ‘a sinister plot,’ ending up in prison surrounded by drug traffickers and murderers
From Argentina to Morocco: How Trump is stoking territorial revisionism
The United States is willing to dismantle one of the pillars of the postwar world order: the inviolability of international borders
Andrew Scott, the expert in tortured characters: ‘I join projects because of the script’
The Irish star of ‘Sherlock’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ talks to EL PAÍS about playing the meteorologist behind the Normandy landings in ‘Pressure’
Europe does not want to depend on foreign technology in the new digital order
Brussels wants to build its own capabilities in semiconductors, cloud computing and artificial intelligence as it seeks greater technological sovereignty from the US and China
Douglas Stuart, author: ‘If you’ve ever known poverty, you never forget it’
The writer, who has published a new novel after the success of ‘Shuggie Bain,’ doesn’t believe that the US will improve after Trump’s departure. ‘He has already sown the seeds of hatred,’ he says
Gonçalo M. Tavares, writer: ‘If a country like the U.S. has 40 million poor people, that country isn’t rich’
The Portuguese author writes compulsively, but he lets his manuscripts sit in a drawer for years. Translated into 70 languages, Saramago once said of him: ‘It’s not natural to write so well. You feel like punching the guy. They’ll give him the Nobel Prize for sure’
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