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Evidence points to suicide as the 75-year-old was found hanging in his cell in Brians 2 penitentiary

Elena Vavilova and her husband were the inspiration for the hit TV show ‘The Americans,’ as Russian spies who spent years undercover in the US. Now she has written a novel based on her experiences

The discovery of thousands of pre-Columbian artefacts of unknown value has hindered the construction of Mexico’s flagship tourism project amid indigenous communities’ concerns over looting

The philanthropist has made “significant” donations to 286 organizations, including Fondo Semillas, a Mexican non-profit focused on women’s rights

The head of security and citizen protection in Mexico City gave EL PAÍS details of the brutal attack that killed his bodyguards and sent him to the hospital a year ago

The Peruvian presidential candidate has launched an appeal against the result of the ballot, alleging fraud in Pedro Castillo’s narrow victory, but says during an interview with EL PAÍS she will accept the final decision of the National Elections Jury

An internal investigation in 2012 revealed that José Luis Ramón Velasco Guillén had sold at least 86 weapons to private buyers, but the case against him was eventually shelved

A trial with hundreds of young Labradors and Golden Retrievers found a tendency to seek out people’s faces and an ability to respond to facial expressions and gestures

The fashionable health food grows in villages like Punã in Brazil, where incentives are in place to prevent deforestation and add value to local produce

A joint investigation by EL PAÍS and Armando.info unveils the inner workings of a scheme involving dozens of individuals and companies that illicitly sold crude and transferred the money through tax havens in a shady multi-million-dollar business

An ad at a Miami congress and fast-track legal approval for the cryptocurrency have turned the leader into a geek hero. But experts are concerned about volatility and cybercrime

Samuel García is the new governor of the Mexican state of Nuevo León thanks to the work of his ‘influencer’ wife, and other politicians are now rushing to adopt this new style of campaigning

Home to turtles, sharks and whales, the newly expanded Cordillera de Coiba zone has nine mountain ranges under the ocean’s surface, with some seamounts more than 3,000 meters tall

The medical treatment, which combines therapy and diagnostics, has given terminal prostate cancer patients a 35% increased survival time in trials

The leftist teacher and his opponent Keiko Fujimori are preparing for a legal battle that could stretch over two weeks, and threatens to further ramp up tensions in an already-fractured country

EL PAÍS traveled to the remote mountain region where the man who currently holds a narrow lead in the vote count grew up, a land that has shaped his political ideas and personal beliefs

The State Department moves dozens of nations from level 4 to 3, meaning it is still not safe for unvaccinated visitors

The Mexican government has said that the one million Janssen doses from the Biden administration will be administered to the 18-40 age group in northern states such as Sonora and Baja California

Left-wing teacher announces he has won the run-off vote against Keiko Fujimori and says he will form a government that respects democracy and the constitution

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Right-wing presidential candidate claims there have been irregularities as a razor-thin margin of victory opens for her rival Pedro Castillo. Observers, however, say the vote was clean

Researchers in the UK forced bacteria to produce proteins that do not exist in nature, protecting them from viral infection and opening up several possibilities for use in medicine and new materials

A huge sinkhole has caused a family to lose their home in Santa María Zacatepec. While the authorities and scientists investigate the phenomenon, the small village has become a tourist attraction

The former commander of the Special Forces Corps installed a bar at his barracks, used soldiers as waiters at private parties and charged the bill to the military budget

Mexico has just five glaciers left, spread over two mountains: Iztaccíhuatl and Pico de Orizaba. Covering less than one square kilometer of ice, none of them are likely to exist by 2050, according to experts, who blame global warming for this rapidly disappearing source of freshwater

A study of Ancient Egyptian paintings and genetic analysis point to the Kordofan melon, a wild variety with a white flesh that is still grown in the region of Darfur

The director of the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain talks to EL PAÍS about the impact of human activity on the planet and the risk of a sixth extinction