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One year after millions of the voracious insects invaded the country, specialist hunters have developed a system to defeat them. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has declared the operation a near-total success. EL PAÍS boards a control and fumigation plane to see the mission in action

The figure, which is being built in the small inland town of Encantado, has sparked a good-humored spat between the mayors of the two cities

The Cuban Communist Party is holding a congress that could signal the departure of historic veterans as the island grapples with an economic crisis that requires urgent action

According to investigators, Carmen Mireya Alarcón Rivera used the country as a “refuge” as she developed her businesses in Ecuador

Cosmologist Licia Verde responds to a reader’s question about one of the most important unsolved mysteries today in physics

In his new book, historian Ben Macintyre explores the life of a woman who became a Red Army colonel, a successful writer and a top secret operative while raising three children

The life of the royal, who was born with congenital deafness, diagnosed with schizophrenia and helped rescue Jews from Nazis, has recently been featured Netflix drama ‘The Crown’

In the indigenous community of José Joaquín de Herrera, youngsters shoot guns in the air in an effort to push the government into action and show their force against criminal groups

Questions and answers about the work that the ‘companion’ of ‘Perseverance’ will be carrying out, and which is due to take its maiden flight in the coming days

After a video of the 10-year-old went viral, EL PAÍS located his family and traveled to a remote farming community to reconstruct his journey

If an early count is confirmed, the far-left schoolteacher could face either Keiko Fujimori or Hernando de Soto in June

The conservative candidate took 52.5% of the vote to defeat Andrés Arauz, who had been backed by former president Rafael Correa

A millionaire businessman with links to Opus Dei who fears a “Marxist paradise,” the politician has emerged as a genuine contender in the presidential elections, laying bare the political crisis engulfing the country

The fuel that flowed into the Napo and Coca rivers in the northeastern rainforest of Ecuador more than a year ago caused a humanitarian and ecological disaster. The affected indigenous communities are demanding answers from the authorities and companies that have been reluctant to act

The French researcher talks to EL PAÍS why he believes the Swiss climber’s ascents of Shishapangma and Annapurna are not all they seem

Estuardo Cifuentes fled persecution at home because of his sexuality and found himself trapped by Donald Trump’s policies in Matamoros, where he set up Rainbow Bridge to help LGBT asylum seekers

The prestigious quarterly has selected 25 writers for its second list of the best authors under the age of 35, who are breaking geographical and linguistic paradigms

EL PAÍS journalists witness the daily crossings of hundreds of Central Americans into Texas along the river, as the Biden administration struggles to cope with thousands of unaccompanied children coaxed into travelling by people smugglers

The Cuban-American illustrator’s first exhibition in Spain features the cover art for magazines such as ‘Time’ and ‘Der Spiegel’ that made him an enemy of the former president

Victoria Salazar died after a Mexican police officer kneeled on her neck, but unlike the case in the United States which sparked widespread protests, her murder has become just another statistic

Sparklers atop bottles of vodka, revelers on packed dancefloors, drunken crowds in the street and not a mask in sight – welcome to the “sanitary safety bubble zone” for tourists fleeing pandemic restrictions

A team of researchers has reconstructed the life of a species that was unknown to science following the discovery of a fossil in the small Mexican municipality of Vallecillo in 2012

Researchers detected the Cepheus spur, a bridge of massive blue stars, while creating the most accurate map of the galaxy to date

The object observed in 2019 is almost intact despite its long journey from another solar system and could be 4.5 billion years old