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“If the world allows Palestine to be erased, then it was never meant for everyone, only for some. If the law can’t protect Palestinians, it can’t protect anyone,” said Nadya Rasheed, the Palestinian ambassador to Mexico. She added that in two years of genocide, more than 62,000 Palestinians have been murdered in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli army. Among them, more than 20,000 children.

In a keynote address, wearing a traditional Palestinian keffiyeh on her shoulder, the diplomat demanded “a permanent ceasefire to stop the genocide. We demand unrestricted humanitarian aid for Gaza; we demand the release of all [prisoners in Israeli cells].” In this regard, she asserted that “anything less than this is not peace; it is preparation for the next massacre.”

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The Mexican state’s third recent food product, after Bienestar Coffee and Bienestar Chocolate, has arrived. Pure, multifloral honey produced as part of the Alimentación para el Bienestar program. The aim of the program is to make quality, nutritious food available to the population at affordable prices, while supporting small agroecological collectives and producers across the country and the overall goal of Mexican food sovereignty.

The Bienestar Honey will be available in two formats: the first, a squeezable plastic container of 350g retailing for 45 pesos, and the second, a glass jar of 370g which will sell for 93 pesos.

The first batch of the honey has been produced by beekeepers from Chocholá, Yucatán, and they will soon be joined by producers from Calakmul, Campeche.

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You'd think literally everyone would do this, it's such an easy low effort thing to say it's not even really that controversial among Israelis since they love making him their sin eater

Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) made it clear yesterday that the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo will not allow the participation of U.S. armed forces in operations within Mexican territory, emphasizing that bilateral collaboration on security matters will always be carried out with unrestricted respect for national sovereignty.

The Foreign Ministry’s position was issued in response to statements made hours earlier by the United States ambassador to Mexico, retired Colonel Ronald Johnson, who affirmed that both countries are united as sovereign allies in confronting criminal cartels.

In its seven-point statement, the Foreign Ministry maintained that collaboration with the United States is based on principles such as mutual trust, shared responsibility, sovereign equality, respect for territorial integrity, and cooperation without subordination.

He rejects Trump’s ultimatum as U.S. tariff hike on Brazil looms On Wednesday, The New York Times published an interview with President Lula da Silva, in which he stated that Brazil “will never negotiate as if it were a small country against a big one,” just two days before a 50% retaliatory tariff on Brazilian imports is set to take effect.

“We are aware of the United States’ economic power. We recognize its military might and technological size… But that doesn’t scare us. It concerns us,” the Brazilian leader said.

On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump will impose an additional 50% tariff on Brazilian imports. The Republican president has tied the implementation of this decision to the dismissal of charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is currently being prosecuted by Brazil’s Supreme Court for a coup attempt in 2023.

The Brazilian government has stated it will not negotiate matters of national sovereignty or judicial responsibilities. It also urged the United States to engage in dialogue to resolve the trade dispute. Lula stressed that Brazil treats everyone “with great respect,” and demands the same in return.

“Lula, referring to Bolsonaro, says: ‘He tried to stage a coup to prevent me from taking office. He had no courage. He ran away like a rat. He sent his son to Washington to ask Trump to intervene in Brazil. It’s a lack of character. Pay for the shit you did and respect the Brazilian people’.”

“Democracy is sacred,” he said, showing no indication of yielding to the U.S. President’s pressure regarding Bolsonaro’s criminal cases.

“Brazil has already lived through dictatorships… We don’t want that again,” Lula said, reaffirming the importance of respecting the separation of powers and the rule of law.

Two days earlier, Lula had said that Brazil has no conflict with any country and that his intent is to negotiate peacefully with the U.S. “What’s preventing that is that no one wants to talk. We have requested that contact,” he said, referring to communications with the Trump administration.

In statements to the press on July 11, Trump said of Lula, “Maybe at some point I’ll talk to him. Right now, no.” The Brazilian president called it “shameful” that Trump threatened him via Truth Social.

“Trump’s behavior departed from all standards of negotiation and diplomacy… When there is a commercial or political disagreement, you make a phone call, you schedule a meeting, you talk, and you try to resolve the issue. What you don’t do is impose tariffs and issue an ultimatum,” Lula said.

The Brazilian president also lamented the shift “from a 201-year diplomatic relationship where everyone wins to a political relationship where everyone loses,” noting that as a result of Trump’s actions, Americans will now face higher prices on coffee, beef, orange juice and other Brazilian products.

In the meeting held at United Nations headquarters on July 28-30, Cuba reiterated its firm commitment to the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. It denounced the systematic violations and atrocities committed by Israel as the occupying power.

Ambassador Yuri Gala, Charge d’Affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, affirmed in his speech at the forum that his country “has joined the call of the most international community for decisive action to end one of the longest-standing injustices of our time.”

He said injustice has worsened in these last two years, during which “Israel has perpetrated crimes against humanity, collective punishment, Apartheid, and genocide against the Palestinian people with impunity.”

Ambassador Gala recalled on Wednesday the high number of dead, injured, and displaced persons, as well as the destruction of hospitals, schools, mosques, and other civilian infrastructure, in clear violation of International Humanitarian Law, which “places us before a painful reality that lacerates the conscience of humanity.”

Gala emphasized that concrete actions are urgently needed in the UN Security Council to stop the ongoing genocide, allow for the delivery of sufficient and unrestricted humanitarian aid, and guarantee the vital work of UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East).

The Cuban representative also recalled that more than 145 countries already recognize the State of Palestine and emphasized that its admission as a full member of the UN cannot be delayed further.

Justice for Palestine cannot wait any longer. “Let us act with the urgency that humanity demands, that the Palestinian people need, as an unavoidable condition for achieving a just, lasting, and permanent peace in the Middle East,” he concluded.

The island nation of Cuba will now allow transgender people to change the gender markers on their government-issued identity cards without having to undergo “bottom surgery,” a legal change long sought by the country’s trans and nonbinary communities.

On July 18, the country’s National Assembly of People’s Power (NAPP) approved a law allowing people to change their gender markers without first requiring a court-approved document proving that applicants had undergone genital affirming surgeries.

This new law is one of several recently approved by the NAPP to update the technology and policies of the nation’s record-keeping system. Cuba’s new Civil Registry code will now recognize unmarried couples’ emotional unions or cohabitation agreements, providing some legal recognition of various domestic partnerships.

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The Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico (SCJN) has issued a groundbreaking ruling: works generated exclusively by artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be considered copyrightable in Mexico. Therefore, such content is considered public domain, as it is not human-made.

This was the ruling of the Second Chamber of the Court, denying the injunction requested by Gerald García Báez, who attempted to register an AI-generated avatar with the National Copyright Institute (Indautor).

García Báez filed a request with Indautor to protect the work entitled "Virtual Avatar: Gerald García Báez." The piece, a graphic representation of himself for augmented and virtual reality environments, was created using the generative artificial intelligence system Leonardo AI, to which García provided photographs and instructions.

In his application to Indautor, he also requested that moral rights be recognized in favor of the AI ​​system, while he, as a user and contributor of creative input, claimed property rights.

The Public Copyright Registry Office rejected the application, arguing that the work was not derived from a human creation, but rather an artificial one. It noted that, under the Federal Copyright Law (LFDA), only original works that are expressions of the individuality and personality of a natural person can be protected. Thus, any content generated completely automatically by AI is excluded from this protection.

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García Báez first filed a nullity action before the Federal Administrative Justice Tribunal (TFJA), and subsequently a direct amparo action. He then asked the Supreme Court to hear the case due to its "importance for the Mexican State," which was accepted by the Second Chamber in January 2025.

The SCJN's unanimous ruling was resounding: "The justice system of the Union does not protect Gerald García Báez," the Second Chamber ruled. The reporting judge, Lenia Batres Guadarrama, led the constitutional review of the case, based on the legality of the Indautor resolution and the TFJA ruling.

In its analysis, the Court held that Articles 3 and 12 of the LFDA are clear in establishing that only natural persons can be considered authors.

"The author must be a natural person. It cannot be a synthetic or artificial entity," the ruling reiterated.

In its view, the creativity, originality, and individuality required by law can only arise from human experience, emotions, and intellect. Consequently, no artificial intelligence system, no matter how advanced, can meet these requirements.

The Court cited previous jurisprudence and pronouncements from international organizations such as the UN Human Rights Council, which define authorship as an exclusively human right. It also ruled out the possibility of applying foreign legal criteria, such as those of the United Kingdom, Australia, or South Africa, as they are incompatible with the principle of territoriality in force in Mexican law.

Thoughts on these guys? I don't know what is going on in Chile lately. Hype me up if possible

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The Chilean left chooses communist Jeannette Jara to challenge the unstoppable right wing for the presidential election in November.

The Chilean left has chosen this Sunday the candidate who will represent them in the first round of the presidential elections on November 16th against the relentlessly advancing right: Jeannette Jara, 51, a member of the Communist Party. With 77.5% of the votes counted, the public administrator, lawyer, and master's degree holder in public management obtained a resounding 60.5%, compared to the social democrat Carolina Tohá, who reached 27.6%. The representative of Gabriel Boric's Broad Front, Representative Gonzalo Winter, came in third with 8.9%, while Congressman Jaime Mulet, of the Green Social Regionalist Federation (FRVS), came in last with 2.9%. Jara's election marks a milestone for the Chilean Communist Party: it is the first time since the return to democracy in 1990 that this political force, which opposed the center-left governments of the transition, has successfully installed a candidate from its ranks in the race for La Moneda, supported—at least institutionally—by the entire party. The result of this primary, in turn, represents a major blow to the moderate forces of progressivism—embodied by Tohá in this internal competition—who are once again subjugated to the radical sectors of the left.

The unity of the left will be a major test starting tonight. The campaign has intensified in recent weeks, and the fundamental differences have been exposed to the public, especially between Tohá—who began the race as the favorite—and the winning candidate. “Where [the Communist Party] has governed around the world, countries have stagnated socially and poverty has spread,” the 60-year-old social democratic political scientist charged in one of the debates. Both former ministers in Boric's government—Tohá of the Interior and Jara of Labor—showed that they embody very different perspectives on the role of the left in 2025 and the needs of a country like Chile, which has stagnated economically for more than a decade and faces urgent challenges such as the security crisis. In this campaign, both sides highlighted fundamental differences regarding the coexistence of the state and the market, economic growth, crime management, foreign relations, and the control of illegal immigration, among other issues.

"The important thing is that, at the end of the day, the progressive sectors will all be united behind a single candidacy," President Boric stated this morning, addressing a concern across the political spectrum: whether, given the vast gaps between the official proposals and the heated competition, the result will generate dispersion and whether the winner—Jara—will actually have a torrent of political power to confront a right wing that has the winds in its favor. The opposition, in fact, benefits from the fact that the communist militant was chosen. This is especially beneficial for Matthei, who, with Tohá out of the running, will try to win over the moderate sectors of the center and center-left who are unwilling to support a candidate from the radical left.

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Mexico City (AFP) – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday threatened legal action over falling debris and contamination from billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket launches across the border in the United States.

Mexico's government was studying which international laws were being violated in order to file "the necessary lawsuits" because "there is indeed contamination," Sheinbaum told her morning news conference.

Last week, a SpaceX Starship rocket exploded during a routine ground test at the Starbase headquarters of Musk's space project on the south Texas coast near the Mexican border.

The explosion -- which sent a towering fireball into the air -- was the latest setback to Musk's dream of sending humans to Mars.

Mexican officials are carrying out a "comprehensive review" of the environmental impacts of the rocket launches for the neighboring state of Tamaulipas, Sheinbaum said.

The US Federal Aviation Administration approved an increase in annual Starship rocket launches from five to 25 in early May, stating that the increased frequency would not adversely affect the environment.

The decision overruled objections from conservation groups that had warned the expansion could endanger sea turtles and shorebirds.

A lawsuit would be the latest legal tussle between Mexico and a US corporate giant.

In May, Sheinbaum's government said it had sued Google for renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" for Google Maps users in the United States following an executive order by President Donald Trump.