The Salvadoran government has launched a mass trial against 486 alleged gang leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha‑13 (MS-13), including 22 supposed members of the group’s top echelon, known as the Ranfla Nacional, whom authorities accuse of ordering 29,000 homicides committed between 2012 and 2022.
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Twenty‑three passengers from the MV Hondius have been on land for more than two weeks. They disembarked on April 21 on the island of Saint Helena, 10 days after the first death on board, and began their journeys home. That is what a Spanish passenger still on the ship told EL PAÍS. “Twenty‑three people got off in Saint Helena. There are 23 people wandering around there, and until three days ago, no one had contacted them,” said the passenger, who asked to remain anonymous.
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The arrival in the Canary Islands in the coming days of the ship where a Hantavirus outbreak occurred has quickly sparked a political battle in Spain. The premier of Spain’s Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, from the Canary Coalition, sparked tension Wednesday morning during a series of interviews with various media outlets. He stated that his government has not received detailed information on how the operation will be carried out and speculated that it might be a highly contagious variant.
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José Perozo, a 24-year-old Venezuelan, is behind bars again. In 2024, he was arrested during the crackdown on protests against the presidential election results. This time, he had gone out to fill some water jugs at a reservoir near his home in Mariara, Carabobo state, when a patrol car pulled up beside him. They arrested him, put a hood over his head, and took him away. His mother has searched every police station in town without finding him. “How long will this go on? We can’t even go out on the street!” pleads Yuraima Piñero.
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Sabrina Carpenter directs the heist. The Espresso singer, along with actresses Margaret Qualley and Madelyn Cline, breaks into a Hollywood mansion to steal jewelry, clothes, and even a Grammy. This is the plot of the music video for House Tour, one of the tracks from Carpenter’s latest album Man’s Best Friend. Music videos produced by the pop singer have become popular for including actresses and movie references: in Taste, featuring Jenna Ortega, she hides clues to Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Kill Bill; Tears features Colman Domingo and is inspired by The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And in her latest video, which she released in early April, she references Sofia Coppola’s film The Bling Ring. The latter is based on a true story popularized by a Vanity Fair article titled “The Suspects Wore Louboutins”: between 2008 and 2009, a group of wealthy, fame-obsessed young people burglarized the homes of celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel Bilson, Brian Austin Green, Megan Fox, and Orlando Bloom.
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The allegations that Mexican politician Rubén Rocha Moya collaborated with the Sinaloa Cartel — an unprecedented case involving a sitting governor that is straining relations between the two countries to an as-yet-unknown degree — stems directly from the criminal case against Los Chapitos. This faction of the criminal organization, comprised of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s sons and their loyalists, has been on trial in the United States since April 2023. The 10 individuals indicted last week — Rocha Moya, Senator Enrique Inzunza Cázerez, and a significant portion of Sinaloa’s security apparatus — share the case with brothers Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, who remain at large, and 24 other individuals linked to the group, who are accused of providing political protection in exchange for money and electoral victories.
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In recent years, Saudi Arabia has established itself as one of the world’s most active and ambitious investors. From financing the futuristic city of Neom on coast of the Red Sea to signing Cristiano Ronaldo for Al-Nassr and hosting a Formula 1 Grand Prix in Jeddah, not forgetting its investments in Western companies like SoftBank, Uber and Telefónica, Riyadh’s financial resources have left virtually no sector unexplored.
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Scientific vessels, icebreakers, and cruise ships like the Grand Princess, one of the largest in the world, congregate in the port of Ushuaia. In this context, the MV Hondius wouldn’t stand out. It’s an ice-strengthened expedition ship, 107 meters long, with a capacity for about 170 people. On March 20, 149 people boarded: 88 passengers and 59 crew members. They represent 23 nationalities, and 14 are Spanish: five from Catalonia, three from Madrid, one from Galicia, and one from Valencia. The latter, oceanographer Aitana Forcén-Vázquez, is also part of the crew, acting as a guide for the tourists. There’s also an elderly Dutch couple who traveled to various locations in Chile and Argentina before arriving here, at the southernmost point of the continent. The MV Hondius advertises numerous amenities and a luxurious atmosphere on its website. Fares for this voyage range from $17,600 to $29,400. There are scheduled stops at some of the most remote islands on the planet, visiting diverse ecosystems and ending in Cape Verde, known as the “African Caribbean.” This is the logbook of their journey.
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The Trump administration, determined to relaunch the war on drugs, will increase pressure on Mexico and Colombia to implement tougher and more effective policies, according to its recently published National Drug Control Strategy 2026. The 100+-page document outlines a more aggressive approach to tackle the global drug production, transit, and distribution chains, with several references to these Latin American countries as well as China, India and Canada. The strategy, which Washington describes as a “relentless offense,” calls for stricter measures, particularly in key sectors such as transportation, the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, and logistics.
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump secured a victory within his own party, demonstrating once again that those who defy his dictates pay a heavy price. In the Indiana state Senate primary, the president ensured that a majority of his seven candidates (at least five) won. Trump nominated these challengers to exact revenge on the current senators who dared to oppose his proposal to redraw the state’s congressional map. These state elections, which might have gone largely unnoticed, instead became a barometer of support for the president among his voters. And Trump emerged victorious.
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“The last time I heard my mother’s voice was the night before December 12, when she was arrested for the fourteenth time,” says Narges Mohammadi’s daughter. The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, now 54, has dedicated her entire life to defending human rights in Iran. In total, she has spent almost 10 years in prison, interspersed with brief periods of freedom. Years that have taken a heavy toll on her personal health. Today, she lies unconscious in a bed in the coronary care unit of a hospital in Zanjan province, her home region, and the same one where the prison is located in which she has spent the last 140 days.
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Soledad Gallego-Díaz, who died this Tuesday in Madrid at the age of 75, achieved the major journalistic scoop of Spain’s democratic transition at just 26 years old: the publication in the magazine Cuadernos para el Diálogo of the draft of the Spanish Constitution of 1978, which, for reasons that now seem incomprehensible, was kept under strict secrecy. From then on, Sol, as she was known, was a force to be reckoned with in Spanish journalism: the first female editor-in-chief of EL PAÍS from June 8, 2018, to June 15, 2020; deputy editor under three different editors (Juan Luis Cebrián, Joaquín Estefanía, and Jesús Ceberio); correspondent in Brussels, London, Paris, New York, and Buenos Aires; special envoy to numerous international events, such as the end of the dissolution of the Soviet Union; political reporter; bureau chief in Seville; readers’ advocate; editorial writer; and instructor at the journalism courses taught by this newspaper in partnership with the Autonomous University of Madrid.
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