Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s egg freezing is one of 2026’s most interesting political moves
El País Englishby Belén Remacha·7 Sept 2026
U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is enjoying a moment of popularity. She is running to renew her seat in the November midterms, but all signs indicate she won’t stop there.
Argentine court orders return of Nazi-looted painting to victim’s family
El País Englishby Javier Lorca·7 Sept 2026
After almost 90 years, a painting stolen by the Nazis in the Netherlands will be returned to the heirs of the victims.
They have sold Venezuela with Venezuelans still inside
El País Englishby Boris Muñoz·7 Sept 2026
The “biggest oil deal in world history” between Donald Trump and Delcy Rodríguez, brokered through the controversial businessman Alejandro Betancourt, marks a pivotal moment in Venezuela’s history.
Students turned drug dealers: How some US fraternities entered the narcotics business
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·7 Sept 2026
It was common for small bags containing half a gram of cocaine to be passed from hand to hand at parties hosted by two Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) fraternities.
Security czar Omar García Harfuch helms Mexico’s 180-degree turn with the DEA
El País Englishby Zedryk Raziel·7 Sept 2026
Few institutions embody with such clarity the spirit of the nation they represent, its ideals and interests, as the DEA, the United States’ anti-narcotics agency.
From the Shield of the Americas to the Golan Heights, De la Espriella keeps his promise to align with Trump and Netanyahu
El País Englishby Santiago Torrado·7 Sept 2026
Colombian president Abelardo de la Espriella has repeatedly shown he is more than willing to fulfill his promise to align unreservedly with Donald Trump —who returned the favor with his “full...
Online culture hits the streets, from catching Pokémon to aura farming
El País Englishby Paola Mendoza·6 Sept 2026
In some cities, public squares and parks are once again filling up with teenagers. Their gatherings, baffling to anyone outside the generation fluent in memes and TikTok, have dominated headlines...
The Chinese television show where the prize is a job
El País Englishby Inma Bonet Bailén·6 Sept 2026
What happens when a group of young people with outstanding résumés compete for the same job opportunity?
In Mexico, Yucatán’s coastal dunes are under threat from luxury real estate developments
El País Englishby Paul Antoine Matos·6 Sept 2026
A mound of sand rises amidst the vegetation of the coastal dunes. It’s just by the sea in Chuburná Puerto, a community in the municipality of Progreso, in the Mexican state of Yucatán.
From the Treasure of Villena to the French Crown Jewels: The lucrative business of stealing pieces of history
El País Englishby Vicente Olaya ,Silvia Ayuso·6 Sept 2026
Museum robberies are an old business. And, since 2023, the rise in the price of gold has revitalized it. Over the past nine years, the value of an ounce of gold has increased fivefold.
Nikolay Rybakov, leader of Yabloko: ‘We have shown the world how many people in Russia want peace’
El País Englishby Javier González Cuesta·6 Sept 2026
Thousands of Russian citizens and opposition supporters showed their support this summer for a historic party, Yabloko, after the Kremlin allowed it to participate in the legislative elections to...
From sugarcane fields to dialysis: the kidney crisis that crosses borders
El País Englishby Mariana Hernandez·6 Sept 2026
This story is a collaboration between the Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual, nonprofit newsroom and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico...
A cartel tortured Julio: The US denied his family asylum and wants to send them to a third country
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·6 Sept 2026
Julio thought that he had found his dream job. He was a driver for a wealthy family in Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city.
The new Arctic route is redrawing the economic and geopolitical map
El País Englishby Ignacio Fariza ,Belén Carreño·6 Sept 2026
On August 26 and August 29, in the bustling port cities of Qingdao and Busan, located in China and South Korea respectively, two medium-sized cargo ships cast off.
Miami’s Venezuelan community demands answers from lawmakers over ICE detentions
El País Englishby Abel Fernández·6 Sept 2026
Humberto Castro, a 59-year-old Venezuelan, was driving to work as usual from his home in Doral, where he has lived for eight years, when he was detained by agents from U.S.
Do running, swimming, and cycling require the same effort and produce the same effects?
El País Englishby Miguel Angel Goméz Ruano·5 Sept 2026
As summer draws to a close it’s common to start the process of getting in shape, whether with a family member or a group of friends.
The Ozempic personality, or how extreme thinness kills pleasure: ‘It robbed me of my usual optimism’
El País Englishby Carolina Escutia Román·5 Sept 2026
“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels,” was a phrase popularized by Kate Moss. In a 2009 interview, she recounted how she kept the sentence written on a note above the refrigerator in the house...
Young Chileans are turning away from the Church: Tarot, reiki and astrology fuel a new spirituality
El País Englishby Arturo Galarce·5 Sept 2026
When Gabriela Strahalm was 18, in 2008, she turned to tarot cards for the first time. Her mother, she recalls, was struggling with alcohol abuse, and they had already spoken with a psychiatrist...
Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The most important thing for Mexico is to stop being just a low-cost manufacturer for US companies’
El País Englishby Sonia Corona·5 Sept 2026
Mariana Mazzucato, 58, fondly recalls the year she spent in Mexico as an exchange student in 1989.
Argentina’s Milei wants women to have more children while he cuts support for families
El País Englishby Delfina Torres·5 Sept 2026
From the stage of a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentine President Javier Milei recently took aim at one of his recurring targets: women, whom he blames for the decline in birth rates that...
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