El Mencho ordered trailers to be set alight and highways blocked in Michoacán, Jalisco, and Guanajuato. Two police officers were killed, but no arrests were made: ‘We’ve never seen blockades of this scale’
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The warning from the US president, who has typically aligned himself with Russia’s stance on the war in Ukraine, comes as Washington steps up its diplomatic efforts to broker a peace agreement in the coming days
Volodymyr Zelenskiy cuts trip to South Africa short and insists on intensifying ‘diplomatic efforts’ to reach a ceasefire
The reform proposed by Claudia Sheinbaum establishes significant financial penalties for radio and television companies
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is reacting to increasing pressure from the Mexican government, which has targeted high-ranking bosses and important logistics operators
Kyiv opposes Washington’s plans while the UK downgrades ceasefire negotiations in London to a meeting of technical experts after Secretary of State Marco Rubio canceled his attendance
His first encyclical, in 2015, helped launch the Paris Agreement. In 2023, he updated it to scold countries for not weaning themselves off fossil fuels
In less than a week, at least 17 clandestine cemeteries with dozens of human remains have been uncovered in Sinaloa, Baja California Sur and Colima
Francis’ foreign policy put him at odds with Trump, brought him closer to China, alienated Israel, and was one of complex balances in Ukraine
The US president’s hostility toward the diaspora raises doubts about Washington’s true interest in a transition to democracy in Venezuela
For a long time, a sector of the Church directed and financed from the US attempted to depose the Vatican leader in order to impose its own identity-based ideology
The international organization notably scaled down its prediction for US growth and warned that ‘we are entering a new era’
The most international conclave and one of the youngest in recent history will elect a new pontiff in less than a month
The Pope acted with energy, humanity and measures to combat the scandal, but the bishops and the Vatican machinery did not always follow his lead and resisted in many countries, such as Spain
Francis’ positions on immigration, history, the economy, and the environment, and his refusal to place the Church at the service of cultural wars, made him enemies on the right
The president is committed to demilitarizing the Shia party-militia through dialogue, but pressure from the US and Israel leaves little room for maneuver for the armed organization
The Catholic Church fears the impact of disinformation campaigns on an election that will feature the largest number of cardinals in its history
For over 10 years, the Olascoagas have controlled the lives and economies of dozens of municipalities in Guerrero and the State of Mexico. The US now accuses them of being large-scale drug traffickers
The pontiff died a day after his final public appearance, coinciding with Easter Sunday when he delivered the ‘Urbi et Orbi’ blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica
The chemist Miguel Cortés died in solitary confinement in his prison cell without a sentence, ahead of a series of trials for murder. Authorities talk about a fall, an intoxication and cardiac arrest. The families of the victims blame the Prosecutor’s Office for inaction and irregularities in his death
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentine pontiff who initiated a historic process of reforms in the Church in 2013, also unleashed an unprecedented war with the ultraconservative sector of the Catholic world
The pontiff will be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, not in the Vatican, and changes in regulations will speed up both the funeral and the meeting of the cardinals to choose a successor
The pontiff, an energetic reformer of the Catholic Church, has passed away after a tenure of 12 years, the Vatican announced. He was the first Latin American to lead the institution, and the first to choose the name Francis as a reminder to never forget the poor
The capital of Guangdong province in the south of the country is a major manufacturing center; many of its factories have suspended shipments to the US
Tired of waiting for a government that has turned its back on them, millions of people suffering from hunger, homelessness and a lack of medicine in Cuba are relying on solidarity to survive
The construction of an infrastructure project that would have competed with the Ambassador Bridge — a symbol of a now-fractured bilateral relationship — highlights a new era between the United States and its northern neighbor