Silvia Blanco
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- Jul 28, 2026
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- Jul 13, 2026
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Hanging bodies, extortion and suspicion: The Zacatecas murders expose drug cartel infiltration in Mexico (opens the original)
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Around 20 men wearing balaclavas and carrying assault rifles pointed toward the sky stare into the camera, with a rural landscape in the background. One of them, standing in front of the others, reads from a sheet of paper. Beside him, a black banner bearing the initials CDS-MF identifies the group: Sinaloa Cartel–Mayito Flaco, one of the factions that has split from the criminal organization. In the foreground, a man lies on the ground holding a machine gun. This was the scene staged by the car
The enigmas of Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada (opens the original)
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Mexico only knows what 76-year-old Ismael Zambada García, known as “El Mayo,” looks like today from illustrations made by a U.S. court artist when he appeared there a year ago. The portrait shows a wrinkled man with a white mustache and beard, wearing a blue prison jumpsuit and a solemn expression. In fact, only a few photographs of him have been published: a couple taken when he was arrested two years ago, thin and with black hair; a blurry, old U.S. wanted-card photo; and another of him wearin
Mexico leads Latin America’s pushback against Trump’s migrant crackdown (opens the original)
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In just 10 days, two people have been shot dead during Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, another died in the agency’s custody, and a fourth was struck and killed by a truck while fleeing from an agent. Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 53, was driving his van to work in Texas when agents stopped him and mistook him for another man they were actually seeking. Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian, was on his way to work in Maine when ICE officers inter
Challenges of Fujimori’s presidency: reinforcing public safety and uniting a fractured country (opens the original)
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It may not seem like a special achievement, but making it to the end of the five-term presidential term in Peru is something that, in the last decade, has been beyond the grasp of the eight elected officials who preceded the 51-year-old conservative Keiko Fujimori. Longevity will be one of the primary goals of the first woman to arrive to the executive office by votes, after she beat — by a narrow margin of 49,000 ballots, less than 1% of voters — her leftist rival Roberto Sánchez. It was her fo
Omar Sixto, Cuban-American businessman: ‘The solution for Cuba is not an invasion, but a humanitarian takeover of the island’ (opens the original)
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The Cuban-American businessman Omar Sixto (Havana, 1969) left the island 30 years ago and first settled in Madrid, Spain to pursue his history studies; later he moved to the United States, but he still maintains an emotional and intellectual bond with Cuba. A few months ago he published the essay Se acabó la diversión. La economía cubana: el salto del capitalismo al socialismo (1959-1965) [The fun is over. The Cuban economy: the jump from capitalism to socialism (1959-1965)], a detailed portrait
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