Early on February 22nd, residents woke up to the whirl of Army helicopters buzzing low over their houses, while those on the western edge of town heard gunshots and explosions. By eleven that morning, news broke that the operation was targeting Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, better known as El Mencho, the fifty-nine-year-old head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or C.J.N.G., and the most powerful drug lord in Mexico.
When the waiter sets the candle on the table between us, I know what's coming next. He gives us the look. I've grown used to it in just a few days here in Spain. It's a look edged with apprehension; there's always a flicker of uncertainty, followed by the decision to leap headfirst into an assumption.
This is not a simple administrative issue, but a renewed attempt by the center-right government of Rodrigo Paz to sweep aside the memory of the world's most famous guerrilla fighter, who was assassinated in the Bolivian village of La Higuera in 1967. Since Bolivia's Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) lost power to the new government last year, several attempts have been made to rid the country of Guevara's legacy.
House prices in Spain rose by 1.8 percent month-on-month and 19.9 percent year-on-year, bringing the average price of homes February this year to 2,950/m, according to data from the Fotocasa Real Estate Index. Buying a home in Spain now costs 40,000 more than it did a year ago.
As it's told, the dish of nachos was first thrown together back in the 1940s by a man named Ignacio Anaya García for a troupe of military wives who were famished after a day of shopping. According to many sources, García was actually the maître d' of the Club Victoria, but the chef was nowhere to be found when the ladies arrived.
According to the annual ranking by the Mexican organization Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice, which compiles a list of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world, six Ecuadorian cities will appear among the top 10 in 2025. Babahoyo appears on the list for the first time as the second most violent, with 166 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.
On the fourth floor of the Sabatini building at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the rooms and artworks have been rearranged once again to tell the most recent chapter in the history of contemporary art in Spain: from the transition to democracy to the present day. Everything has been reshuffled in order, as Manuel Segade, the museum's director, explained during a tour of the 21 rooms on February 16, to try to answer the question: How do we reach the past from the present?