Set against the snow-capped mountains of the Andes, Esquel is one of the most beautiful towns in Argentine Patagonia. Since last Thursday, this quiet municipality has been in an uproar over the arrest of Miguel Edgardo Battista, a biochemist accused of holding his wife and three children captive for at least four years. The situation came to light following reports from neighbors, who found it strange that only he would occasionally leave the house, that the children did not attend school, and that the windows were covered with cloth or paper. They heard desperate screams and noticed that the house seemed to come alive only at night.

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Imagine una enfermedad que, en solo un año, se llevara por delante la vida de 710.000 personas, el equivalente a la población de la ciudad española de Zaragoza. Eso ocurrió en 2023, pero no por un virus o una bacteria, sino por la exposición a las altas temperaturas, que se cobró en todo el mundo esa enorme cantidad de vidas. El 70% de esas muertes, además, se pueden atribuir directamente al cambio climático causado por el ser humano debido, principalmente, al uso de los combustibles fósiles. Este es uno de los datos que contiene el informe The Lancet Countdown, que este año cumple su décima edición como el análisis de referencia en establecer la relación entre el calentamiento global y los problemas de salud.

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On Tulum airport’s runway there is only one plane: a Viva Aerobus Airbus A320. For several hours that is the only aircraft that will remain at the air terminal inaugurated in 2023. The aerodrome is nearly empty after Aeroméxico, Volaris, and American Airlines announced the cancellation of most of their routes to this destination on the Mexican Caribbean. The loneliness in the terminal is unsettling and, in the distance, all that can be heard is the echo of children playing. The crisis caused by the collapse in tourism, in what was once the jewel of the Riviera Maya, has deepened over the past year and has begun to touch various sectors that had set their sights on the booming future of this municipality in the state of Quintana Roo.

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