The alliance between the ‘king of cocaine’ and a Gestapo chief to create the first narco-state in Bolivia
El País Englishby Caio Ruvenal·8 Sept 2026
The city of Cochabamba, in Bolivia’s valleys, has few representations in international popular culture.
More than 1.6 million people die each year from secondhand smoke
El País Englishby Pablo Linde·8 Sept 2026
Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces over the past few decades have reduced exposure to secondhand smoke, but they are far from...
Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, a cinematic love story
El País Englishby Gregorio Belinchón Yagüe·8 Sept 2026
This Tuesday, Bunker, directed by Florian Zeller, premieres at the Venice Film Festival. The drama follows a married couple whose relationship is tested when the husband, an architect, agrees to...
Mexico investigates electricity theft after busting a crypto mining farm
El País Englishby Eyanir Chinea·8 Sept 2026
The discovery of a clandestine cryptocurrency mining farm in a remote area of Puebla has opened a new line of inquiry into large-scale electricity theft in Mexico.
Colombia revives its century-old dream of linking the Atlantic and the Pacific
El País Englishby Juan Lewin·8 Sept 2026
In Chocó, where people are still reckoning with the devastation caused by the August 10 earthquake, Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella on Monday unveiled the most ambitious project ever...
Trump’s conditions cast a shadow over the US-Venezuela oil deal
El País Englishby Florantonia Singer,Alonso Moleiro·8 Sept 2026
The sweeping oil deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump to secure access for a century to more than 20% of Venezuela’s oil reserves appears far less ambitious when one digs into the details...
700 threatening calls and a family plan for home intrusions: US judges face growing intimidation
El País Englishby Patricia Vélez Santiago·8 Sept 2026
An anonymous caller alerted police one night last May to reports of gunfire inside the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Canada dares to stand up to Trump
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·8 Sept 2026
If no picky official causes problems at the border, it takes only half an hour to go from Detroit airport to Drew Dilkens’s office.
Giuliani vs Mamdani: A deeply divided United States prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·8 Sept 2026
This Friday, the United States will commemorate one of the defining traumas of its history. It is hard to find anyone old enough to remember that day who has forgotten the shock of watching, live...
Why the AfD’s win in Germany is a victory for Trump’s plan to destabilize Europe
El País Englishby Iker Seisdedos García·8 Sept 2026
Amid the flurry of messages that U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Sunday afternoon on his social media platform Truth Social, one item stood out among the memes, maps with the name of the...
US restricts travel by its personnel to Mexican border city of Nogales due to an unspecified threat
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·7 Sept 2026
A threat, the nature of which has not been disclosed, has led U.S. authorities to restrict the movement of their personnel in Nogales, Sonora, where officials will only be allowed to make trips...
‘American Doctor’: US medics trying to save lives in Gaza while Israel bombs hospitals
El País Englishby Héctor Llanos Martínez·7 Sept 2026
For filmmaker Poh Si Teng, it is not enough for the media to keep updating the death toll in Gaza since the start of the Israeli offensive (which now stands at over 75,000).
Morocco grows bolder thanks to Trump’s (and Israel’s) support
El País Englishby Juan Carlos Sanz·7 Sept 2026
Morocco has made giant diplomatic strides on the international stage, far beyond its standing as an emerging regional power in North Africa, with the blessing of three permanent members of the...
Israel bombs southern Lebanon despite the truce: ‘We feel like we are still at war’
El País Englishby Joan Cabasés Vega·7 Sept 2026
The two ceasefire agreements the United States promoted in recent months in Lebanon have de-escalated the war between Israel and the fundamentalist party-militia Hezbollah, but the conflict...
‘Bella ciao’: The tumultuous life of the antifascist anthem
El País Englishby Paco Cerdà·7 Sept 2026
The lyrics are so simple they fit in a single sentence: a partisan one morning meets the invader, senses he will die and asks his girl to bury him in the mountain, under the shade of a flower, so...
Ulrich Siegmund, the smiling ‘popular kid’ who propelled the far right to victory in eastern Germany
El País Englishby Almudena de Cabo·7 Sept 2026
His constant smile and upbeat demeanor have become his trademark. Ulrich Siegmund, 35, has helped reshape the image of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), moving away from anger and...
Wang Xingxing, the student who failed English and is now leading the humanoid robotics race
El País Englishby Natalia Otero·7 Sept 2026
Wang Xingxing, 36, fell in love with technology at an early age. Even as a schoolboy, he dreamed of building robots that would leave their mark on history.
The tireless search for Héctor Márquez, the Mexican fisherman missing for a week
El País Englishby Zedryk Raziel·7 Sept 2026
Héctor Márquez, aka “Chico,” went out very early on Monday, August 31 to fish aboard his small motorboat, which he named Josmarcito, off the coast of Puerto Ángel, in the southern Mexican state of...
Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court: ‘History sooner or later will call us all to account. Where were you?’
El País Englishby Ferrer Ferrer·7 Sept 2026
Tomoko Akane was elected by her fellow judges in 2024 as president of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Science, pigs and money: the race between the US and China to make animal-to-human transplants viable
El País Englishby Daniel Mediavilla·7 Sept 2026
A year ago, an open microphone during a conversation between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin illustrated modern humans’ faith in science and technology and the idea that we are machines made of...
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