US library hands out potatoes and rice as SNAP cuts leave families hungry
The changes the Trump administration made to the program leave more than 3.5 million families without help to buy food
Burying the Cuban Revolution: A task for the left
Its failure is an undeniable fact. It was never able to provide for the material well-being of its population on its own
The prolific pen of inmate 89914053: El Chapo’s letters from his Colorado prison
The former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel is serving a life sentence for drug trafficking in the United States. In 13 missives addressed to the judge presiding over his case, he writes that he is suffering from severe physical and psychological exhaustion
The popularizer of the K-shaped economy: ‘The rich are living a golden age under Trump’
Professor Peter Atwater believes economic inequality has mutated into something more dangerous for social cohesion. ‘Such an unequal economy is fragile, like a Jenga tower,’ he warns
Cabrero Segundo’s exchange
In 2022, traffickers from the Lacandona area in southern Mexico negotiated an extraordinary deal with the Army: the return of 100 kilos of cocaine in exchange for 33 soldiers they had kidnapped. EL PAÍS reconstructs the episode — a window, in reality, onto a 50-year conflict in one of North America’s natural jewels
Racists behind bars: Brazil is at the vanguard of the fight against discrimination
More than 300 people are incarcerated for crimes of racism in a country that strengthened its laws three years ago
Pious, lions, innocents: What does culture tell us about popes?
From Dante to Gide, from Velázquez to Bacon, or from Dan Brown to Sorrentino, with Leo XIV arriving in Spain, we review the critical and historical imaginary surrounding the papal figure
Salvador Dalí at art school: A wayward and insolent student expelled for life
Without fanfare, the Complutense University safeguards the papers that piece together the painter’s stormy passage through the San Fernando Fine Art Royal Academy a hundred years ago
Hungry elephants displaced by the climate crisis with farmers for food in Zambia: ‘They ate the maize the whole night’
Chali Mulenga|Livingstone, Zambia|
As in other African countries, extreme weather is displacing mammals from their migratory routes; they trample farmland in search of water and food, leaving hundreds of families without a livelihood
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