Rising tensions in Venezuela

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Rising tensions in Venezuela EL PAÍS USA EDITION

Dear readers, ‌ Tensions continue to rise in Venezuela, with the Maduro government arresting thousands of protesters. We spoke with opposition leader María Corina Machado about the contested election results, and with a group of Venezuelans in exile who have launched a hunger strike to protest the situation in the country. ‌ Meanwhile in the United States, the race for the White House is getting tighter, with polls showing Kamala Harris neck-and-neck with Donald Trump, and even leading in some key swing states. Voters are eagerly waiting to see what will happen on September 10, when the two candidates face off in their first televised debate. ‌ In other news, the scandal over the arrest of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López deepened this week, after the former published a letter contradicting the official version of his capture. His uncorroborated statements have sparked controversy over the influence of organized crime in Mexico’s public affairs and have provided a first warning of the scope of a potential deal between El Mayo and U.S. authorities. ‌ And finally, we spoke to paleoneurobiologist Emiliano Bruner about why the Neanderthals likely had cognitive abilities that humans either never had or lost. ‌ We hope you enjoy this selection of stories from EL PAÍS English Edition.

Exiles on hunger strike at the UN: ‘We came to give our lives for Venezuela, we did not come to let ourselves die’ The three men have been camping outside the organization’s headquarters in New York for a week in protest against the political situation in their country ‌

Zero tolerance and raids on schools: The clues into Trump’s plans to launch the biggest deportation operation in history The immigration section of ‘Project 2025’, a 900-page playbook for the next Republican president written by an ultraconservative think tank, explains how millions of people should be deported from the United States

Opposing campaign strategies: Harris’ ‘joy’ versus Trump’s ‘We are a failing nation’ After just a few weeks, the Democratic candidate is neck-and-neck with the Republican and is ahead in three swing states, according to a Siena College poll for ‘The New York Times’

María Corina Machado: ‘Maduro must be made to understand that his best option is to accept a negotiated transition’ In an interview, with EL PAÍS, the Venezuelan opposition leader says she’s convinced that a change in the country is possible this time: ‘Our records are available for anyone who wants to analyze them’

The letter from ‘El Mayo’ Zambada that widens the scandal in Mexico: A murder, a capture and a secret meeting The Sinaloa Cartel leader has taken control of narrative over his arrest after claiming that he was going to meet with Governor Rubén Rocha and linking his detention to the murder of Héctor Cuén, an influential local politician

The shadow of Yevgeny Prigozhin still looms over the Wagner cemetery in Krasnodar The burial ground houses 1,000 soldiers from the mercenary group, whose leader died in a plane crash after leading a mutiny against Vladimir Putin. In the villages of the province, the absence of young people who have gone to the front is palpable

The Spanish Reconquest and the Battle of Covadonga: When myths contaminate history In several recent essays historians discuss the founding milestones of Spanish nationalism, the traditional banner of conservative politicians, around the struggle for Al-Andalus ‌

Emiliano Bruner, paleoneurobiologist: ‘With this big brain, we are intelligent and sad monkeys’ The scientist argues that obesity is the result of an evolutionary mismatch between brain programming and our social context

DNA testing identifies Teodomiro, the bishop who founded the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage 12 centuries ago An international investigation confirms that the remains found in 2019 belong to the man who found the supposed tomb of the apostle James in the Spanish region of Galicia

Olympic medal table by population and wealth: Which countries fared the best at the Paris Games? A number of Caribbean countries achieved extraordinary results, considering their size and GDP, while France has once again proved the ‘host effect’

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