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Ryanair has been carefree for time for delays on his flights. And in Zaragoza a judge has decided to make him pay

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There are sentences that seem anecdotal but, basically, have their importance. When a judge opts in favor of one side or another it is important because he is not only offering his vision of a fact, he is raiding the way for, in the future, his sentence is taken as a sentence for a similar case. When these decisions are made by a superior court, it is called jurisprudence And it serves, as we said, to apply the same criteria in the future. In spite of everything, the conclusions of the lower organs are also important because they can serve as the basis for defense or accusation later. That is why it is important to attend to the results that Ryanair is receiving in the courts. In recent months, with the Fund government finemost of the news that arrives are related to the collection by the cabin suitcase. Sentences that are important because, even, Justice itself does not seem to agree. Despite this, the company continues to receive complaints for another series of reasons. A few days ago the case of an old man who was prevented from returning to Spain was viracied because Ryanair workers assured that the document with which he was flying was not valid. They defended that the permanent ID, that in Spain it is given to people with more than 70 yearsit could not be used as a legal document to fly. Now we have known that Ryanair has received a new varapalo. You will have to compensate a passenger for the delay of a flight. Not because of the fact of being late, specifically because the judge who has led the case is clear that the company did not put all possible means to ensure that the flight left in time. Lighting, which is gerund The news brings it eldiario.eswho echoes the judgment of the Court of First Instance number 10 of Zaragoza. Its headline has confirmed that Ryanair will have to disburse 250 euros to compensate for a passenger who saw his flight delayed in three hours. The important thing here is that the judge points out that nothing extraordinary did not happen so that The flight will be delayedpulling the main defense argument of the company. This allegation is what the airlines usually use to try to deny compensation due to a flight delay, such as It can be read on the company’s own website. According to the claims platform. (who has led the defense of the passenger)many times they are told passengers that “they have no right to compensation because the incidence has occurred due to a cause of force majeure that was unpredictable for the airline, but that in many occasions the end of this argument is to avoid economically compensating passengers because in reality such extraordinary circumstance has not been produced.” In this case, the defense of the passenger claimed that the company could have had an alternative plan if they had taken the appropriate measures. Something that the judge coincides who in her letter has stressed that the company was aware that the flight was going to be delayed because in its previous route the plane was already traveling late. However, he did not launch any alternative plan and limited himself, exclusively, to delaying the next flight. For the judge, aware that the flight between Porto and London already circulated with a “serious delay”, the company should have contemplated how it could prevent the flight between London and Zaragoza from being delayed. Instead of letting the dominoes fell, in Ryanair, they should have sought a way to Avoid this last delay But, instead, they simply maintained their initial plan and waited for it to be replicated on the flight of the affected passenger. In her letter, the judge also emphasizes that “the fact that a plane is assigned to several flights in a short period of time only obeys a business decision, cost reduction, etc. but that gives rise to assume a clear risk that an incidence in one of them affects all the remaining flights assigned to the aircraft.” That should not be a reason, however, to correct the problem. The judgment of this Spanish court follows the line of the decreed by the Court of Justice of the European Union (TJUE) That last year he sentenced that airlines have to compensate passengers whenever they fail to demonstrate that they took all reasonable measures to avoid a delay, even in the face of “extraordinary circumstances” that has been based on what their defenses have been based so far. Photo | Ryanair In Xataka | Ryanair has found a new formula to win more for a ticket: force you to 100% digital shipment

Vietnam has tired of China’s artificial islands, so he has decided to start building his own

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China has been pulling tons of sand for more than a decade. And not only is he doing it for Build airports: They are dozens of artificial islands for expand its military power. It is about China’s strategy to claim the maritime territories that they consider their own and that are also doing in the Yellow Sea coast in front of South Korea. The problem is that one of its neighbors has been tired. Vietnam has also begun to lift artificial islands in the same territory with a clear objective: to prevent China from conquering the area. AND The tension is servedclear. Spratly Islands. It may seem more reef, but that of Spratly Islands It is tremendously important at the geopolitical level. It is a reef that is located between four countries whose relations, in some cases, are a hotbed: China, Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan, and they are also a set of rich islands in resources natural as fishing banks (suitable for a China to which His folders fall short), oil and natural gas. It is estimated that there are 105,000 million barrels of oil and many other millions of gas drums. There is tension, therefore, to control those resources, but also because it is a relevant point at the strategic level. They are located on one of the most busy maritime routes and are key to both international trade as for world movement. Controlling that archipelago implies having an essential influence globally. Claims. And the situation is a chicken coop. The archipelago is composed of a hundred islands and there are countries that carry decades claiming his sovereignty over it. On the one hand, China says that the fishermen of the Ming dynasty of the fifteenth century have already established themselves there, so the islands belong to them. In addition, in 1947 they made a map that showed how they all belonged to them, starting to occupy some of them in 1988. Malaysia se put In the fight in 1979, claiming part of the archipelago, the same case as Brunéi. Philippines is another player on this board, occupying some islands and occupying some of them with soldiers, but the most persistent are Taiwan and Vietnam. Both demand the entire territory as their own. Taiwan, with the same foundation as China, and Vietnam, stating that the islands were part of the kingdom of Annam – predecessor of the country – during the nineteenth century. Both China and Vietnam recovered archaeological remains to demonstrate that the islands belonged to them in the past and had to remain their property today. But since they did not convince each other, they decided to go to action. Mischief is an example. It is in Chinese power and has names in different languages ​​depending on which country you ask. For China is měijì jiāo. For Vietnam is đá Vành KhĂn. And for the Philippines is Bahura Ng Panganiban. Everyone considers that it is yours Background. Thus, and at some point in 2013, China began to move. Taking advantage of the rocky parts of the reef close to the surface and using Dredging ships to lift the bottom of the sea, they began to build islands and extend some existing ones. In just five years, they created seven artificial islands, the transformation of atolls into comparative satellite images being evident. Militarizing the archipelago. In this whole story, the military presence of the countries involved in the conflict has been key, starring even armed incidents between them. And one of China’s clear objectives is the militarization of this space with a double objective. On the one hand, the most obvious: if you create an island and the militarizas, you make sure that if someone wants it, you also have to arrive with armed troops, being able to trigger a greater conflict. Subi is one of the islands in which China has placed an airport. So it was before and after 2016 On the other, establishing and reinforcing the military presence in an area that, as we say, is key. It is something we have seen recently, with the discovery of A radar anti -furtive ships on one of the islands. And it is a radar, yes, but also a powerful message in an area where the United States also has the eye: if the US and its allies cannot operate poachers in the South China Sea, they may not be able to deal with the forces of the popular liberation army. Discovery Great Reef is held by Vietnam and down to the right we see some changes. Philippines, Taiwan and China say it’s them But well, it is not just a radar: there is also a missile launch platform, and in several of the islands occupied, created or expanded by China we can see presence of military infrastructure such as bases or airports. In this TWSJ video we can see perfectly the evolution of the islands: Vietnam is planted. In 2021, Vietnam got tired of the situation and, being together with Taiwan the country that has the most interest in the archipelago, also began to lift islands in the Spratly. Mainly, for military and port presence that reinforce maritime logistics, but putting the direct in recent months. Since June 2024, Vietnam has “grown” 641 new hectares and measurements Totals of expansion 1,343 hectares compared to 1,882 of China. And the expansion is being rapid: in 2021, Vietnam only had four advanced ports with port. Now, it has tripled that number with cases such as Barque Canada Reef in which only the atolon was intuited and now has even a landing floor. Before and after in the reef Barque Canada Complaints from each other. The objective of one and others is to operate more time and in greater numbers on those islands before a relief arrives, being able to carry out maneuvers and patrols during the area throughout the year, but curiously, although Vietnam had already shouted in the sky before with China’s movements, it is … Read more

In 1914 Russia decided to prohibit vodka to stop alcoholism. It was a disastrous decision

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Exists A legend (not confirmed) that said that, when the final surrender of Nazi Germany was known in World War II, the jubilation with which it was held in the Soviet Union is counted as one of the drunkenness more epic in the history of ethyl celebrations. The myth did not stay there, since the story said the Victory Day It led to the closest to a “national alcoholic blackout”, leaving the nation Without vodka in just 24 hours. The truth is that, whether or not, it makes all the meaning of the world. They came from a prohibition that had resulted. An ancestral relationship. Counted in an extensive Report The Atlantic that the Russian inclination towards alcohol has religious and political roots. In 988, the Prince Vladimir chose orthodox Christianity in part for not prohibiting Alcohol consumption, unlike Islam. During the 16th century, Ivan the terrible established the first state taverns (the calls Kabaks) that they became Fiscal monopolies. In less than a century, a third of Russian men I was indebted With these drink houses. Already in the 18th century, Pedro the Great consolidated that institutional dependence: not only tolerated the alcoholism of his subjects, but punished wives They tried to get their husbands out of the taverns, and recruited ethyl debtors for the army. Arrived at the nineteenth century, the State obtained almost half of its income from the sale of vodka. Far from being an externality of the system, alcohol would be said that it became its collection engine. In this context, the Tsar was going to make a decision of Ajundia. Imperial abstinence. According to Timethe history of the Russian prohibition not only precedes the famous Dry American Lawbut it constitutes one of the most transcendental (and fatal) decisions of the Tsar Nicolás II. It happened in September 1914, when a few days after the death in combat of his cousin, the prince Oleg Romanovthe Tsar sent a telegram to his uncle Konstantin Konstantinovich announcing the definitive suppression of the state sale of vodka in Russia. That gesture, which apparently responded to a moral conviction and a personal loss, dismantled one of the pillars Economics of the Empire: For centuries, the State had maintained a lucrative monopoly on alcohol, generating up to a third of its income thanks to sales to the peasantry. When renouncing that source of financing just at the threshold of World War I, Nicolás not only unleashed a deep fiscal crisis, but also fragile social contract between the throne and its people. Nicolás II Catastrophic consequences. The problem was not only economic. The measure was adopted at a time when the empire tried Revict your prestige After the defeat in the Russian-Japanese war of 1905, where alcoholism among soldiers was indicated as a decisive factor of military collapse. Collective drunkenness during mobilizations and the front had been so notorious that even the Káiser Guillermo II He came to declare that in the next conflict he would win the nation that he least drank. Under that impulse, the ban seemed a strategic decision, aimed at disciplining the army and facilitating mobilization. And, indeed, Russia initially deploy troops quickly and obtain some early victories. However, the price was elevated: by suddenly depriving millions of people of their usual consumption in full war and without social compensation mechanisms, a deep resentment Between peasants, workers and soldiers, amplifying the distance between imperial power and masses. Logistic collapse The Tsar appointed the reformist Peter Bark as Minister of Finance with the difficult task of disconnecting the treasury of alcohol, but the budget vacuum became unsustainable. Given the loss of hundreds of millions of rubles, the solution was the most precarious: Print moneyaccelerating hyperinflation and eroding even more the economy of war. The fiction that national productivity had improved without vodka was sustained with falsified reports and grandiloquent statements, while citizens suffered the consequences of shortage and monetary depreciation. At the logistics level, chaos was equally shocking: the wagons that had to transport grain and supplies to the front were occupied by Aristocratic distillators That, prevented from selling within the country, tried to export their vodka to France, Japan or any port available, saturating the already weak Russian rail networks. From Tsarism to Bolshevism. Paradoxically, the prohibitionist policyborn within the Tsarist conservative regime, was one of the few who survived the tumultuous change of governments that Russia shook Between 1917 and 1924. Neither the provisional government nor Lenin’s Bolsheviks revoked the measure. The communist leader, in fact, defended it as a Ethical and ideological principlewarning that a socialism based on the sale of alcohol was a betrayal of the revolutionary ideal. During the civil war, discipline, sobriety and consumption control were seen as essential components of the new order. Of course, after Lenin’s deaththe logic of state benefit imposed once again: Stalin The monopoly reestablished of vodka (now decorated with the Hoz and the hammer), restoring the practices of the old empire under a new clothing ideological. In terms of fiscal consumption and profitability, the prohibitionist stage It was erased almost completely. Moral experiment. That’s how it ended A movement That did not go as expected, much less. Beyond its symbolism, the Russian prohibition embodies a singular case where a moral decision, taken from power, precipitated the collapse of a regime whole. Time told That, in the context of a devastating war, a broken economy and a desperate population, the elimination of one of the few social exhaust valves ended up exacerbating all the latent tensions of the system. The Zar tried to save the soul of the Russian people removing alcohol, but ended up losing the throne. Thus, the vodka veto not only marked the start of the end of The Romanovbut left a enduring lesson about the risks of moralizing governance in times of crisis. Now, that legend of the end of World War II and the greater ethyl celebration It charges all the meaning of the world, because, sometimes, drunkenness can be more … Read more

In 1953 the United States decided to put a naval base in Rota. Now the installation looks at your future with uncertainty

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When Europe spoke weeks ago of rearme There were a series of news that attest to the situation. First it was Germany through the Almighty Rheinmetall and With Volkswagen In the “helping” equation, then even Spain with a component factory in the Basque Country. In France, a Cold War Plan to “diversify” your nuclear umbrella. And if none of these proposals went ahead, Europe would always have the Naval Rota base in Spain. Until now. Uncertainty at a key point. The story was told this morning The Financial Times. In the quiet coastal town of Rota, to the south of Spain, the imposing presence of American destroyers breaks the idyllic postcard. This old agricultural town houses today The naval base most important in the United States in Europe, the key piece of the antimile shield that protects the continent. It happens that something seems to have changed this part for a while. He had promised a sixth boat in 2022, but Donald Trump’s re -election has fired the alarms about an imminent American troops cutin line with its narrative that Europe must stop depending from Washington for your safety. In numbers, this “restlessness” reaches the close ones 84,000 deployed soldiers In at least 38 European bases, all inheritance of World War II, but whose continuity is now questioned. Broken, symbol and vulnerability. Rota’s base was the fruit of A signed pact In 1953 between Dwight Eisenhower and Franco. That agreement today is a complex of strategic dimensions that includes air track, three docks and the largest weapons and fuel installation of the pentagon in Europe. Its location, near the Strait of Gibraltar, makes it a fundamental node for Project military power towards the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East. In addition, its official status as a Spanish naval installation “Joint use” It forces the United States to coordinate certain movements with Madrid, which adds a layer of complexity to its operation. However, the FT said that for many US military, broken is considered little less than A dream destination Due to its high quality of life and a local economy deeply influenced by the base: two thirds of the city’s economic activity depend on it, and Spanish companies such as Navantia maintain millionaire contracts With the United States Navy. The aircraft carrier of the Spanish Navy Dedal The Trump factor. But as we said, the idyllic postcard seems to be living an era of uncertainty with Trump’s re -election. The contradictory signals from Washington have sown restlessness. While Secretary of State Marco Rubio described as “hysteria” Rumors about possible cuts, Defense Secretary Pete Heghseth warned that American protection It would not be eternal. Worry. The concern is that, before any disagreement (here the fan is broad, from commercial reprisals, European support to Ukraine or the rejection of geopolitical proposals such as the Acquisition of Greenland), Trump can decide to drastically reduce military deployment in Europe, even unilaterally. The tycoon now He has shown disdain for the historical commitments of NATO and has frequently folvado the Scarce spending in defense of its European partners, being Spain One of the most lagging. In addition, President Pedro Sánchez has confronted Trump on various fronts, since his recent Posture about China until His sentence to the Israeli offensive in Gaza, which raises the political risk for the base of rota. Europe without shield. If we stick to numbers, Rota base currently houses 2,800 American soldiersincluding units at sea, and its fleet of destroyers (endowed with these systems to intercept ballistic missiles) represents a mobile capacity without equivalent in Europe. Although fixed pitchers from Poland and Romania could assume part of the Antimisile shield, the European Navy lacks A real alternative to the power of US ships parked in Spain. Hence NATO, although nominally owner of the system, depends largely on Military infrastructure of the United States for collective defense. The European strategy, for now, has consisted of gaining military independence gradually, but is still far from being able to fill the void that would leave an abrupt American replication. Again, That rearme acquires more importance. Alternatives: Morocco. In the face of the possibility of a break, The FT had that some voices suggest that the United States could transfer part of its operations To Moroccocountry that reinforced its link with the Trump administration by normalizing relations with Israel in 2020. With less politically compromised facilities and greater diplomatic harmony, Morocco would be outlined as a possible logistical replacement for Rota. Moreover, apparently, from The Foreign Policy Research Institute They warn that, if the Spanish government overestimates its strategic value or underestimate the level of irritation which can generate in Trump, the consequences could be immediate and deep. Uncertain future. So things, and although for now the base It continues to expand and receiving investments, the rumors of cuts fly over the installation. The American media commented that American residents in rota try Keep calm And, meanwhile, Europe observes with restlessness a situation that transcends local geopolitics and raises an existential dilemma for the continental defense itself. The transition to a greater self -sufficiency European defensive, now, it seems more pronounced than ever, but while that mature or becomes effective transformation, the shadow of an unexpected turn under Trump’s second presidency looms over the Cadiz coast. At stake, the key piece of the antimile shield that protects the old continent. Image | Navy, Us Defenseimagery In Xataka | In the middle of the Cold War, France designed a nuclear rearme plan for Europe. Now sound strongly In Xataka | Europe before its time of truth: we have entered the era of “rearme” and the EU has a plan not to be behind

This barbarity is the photographic kit of Xiaomi 15 ultra. And I have decided to take it to its limit

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A few days ago I traveled to Singapore for the presentation of the Little F7 ultra. Taking advantage of the fact that I was going to spend a few days in the city, I took my Xiaomi 15 Ultra With a fairly special accessory: the photography kit. The objective of this accessory is to bring the experience of a professional camera closer to a telephone, although even further. I am going to tell you what my experience has been with this accessory, and if it is worth it or not to get it, since at the 1,499 euros that the Xiaomi 15 ultra costs it would be necessary to add 199 euros, a figure that brings the whole to 2,000 euros. What includes the kit. The Xiaomi photographic kit is composed of the following: A telephone case. 2,000mAh battery grip Three camera rings (one of them 67mm ND Filters adapter). Two obturator buttons. Detachable grip grip. Belt. The composition of the kit is more than correct, and allows you to meet its objective: turn the phone into a device closer to a camera, including the option of introducing neutral density filters. How is the installed kit. The first thing we have to keep in mind is that the kit increases, and much, the volume and dimensions of this phone. Its reason for being is the grip, and this makes the mobile stop having the design of a mobile. The grip is very, very comfortable, and makes the ergonomics by taking pictures for hours excellent. One point to be taken is the one that the adapter for ND filters is 67mm, a measure for which you most likely do not have filter. If, as in my case, you have a larger ND, it will have to use adapter rings. It is quite funny how a conversion to ND of 82mm is. Of course, forget about putting your mobile in your pocket, this is already a camera. The ND filter allows you to make curious exhibitions, such as this. The experience with the kit. This kit has four buttons. Record button (very uncomfortable and very small) Sailing button (perfect) Dial for zoom (very good) Dial for exposure compensation (perfect) Xiaomi 15 Ultra, automatic mode compensating exposure. The kit does not add any extra function that we cannot perform through the phone’s own screen, but it does everything much more comfortable. For example, exposure compensation is one of the functions that I have used most thanks to having it in a dial. Mobile cameras usually overexpose a lot and move away from a film look, with this it is solved in seconds. It seems a minor detail, but being able to access professional mode functions directly from a button make the experience doing photos excellent. The shutter button is technically well executed. Experience is very similar to using a mirrorless in electronic shooting mode, and touch is quite pleasant. Finally, pointing out that the key to this kit is that it works like a PowerBank. In total, it has 2,000Mah. If we are taking many photos and the phone begins to run out of battery, you can give us about 40% additional autonomy. Kit software. When we connect this kit, we can configure from the ‘grip of camera’ adjustments their behavior. In this menu we will find adjustments related to when the phone loads, what function activates each of the buttons. This is, by far, the best functionality of the kit, since we can make full customization, as in the best Mirrorless cameras. This kit has its own firmware and is updated independently, so the doors open to, in the future, Xiaomi adding extra functionalities. Not everything that shines. On a technical level, the kit seems to me a great idea. If we have bought a phone for your camera, this is a great option to take it to the fullest. But, as a professional photographer, I have found some buts. The first is the matter of size. It is assumed that the advantage of the phones is to have a pocket camera. If I have to carry this grip, it ceases to be, and charge (at least, for me) more sense to use a real camera. There are countless small -sized mirrorless that yield much better than any phone. The second point is that Xiaomi has completely forgotten the most used format today: the vertical. If we want to make a vertical video, or shoot in this format, the kit is completely unusable, it is only designed for vertical guidance. The last point has to do with the price. An ultra xiaomi 15 more this kit goes to 1,700 euros. 1,700 euros for a phone whose reason for being is the camera, and that we cannot transport comfortably if we carry the kit. In my opinion, buy any more economical mobile, such as Xiaomi 14T (500 euros) and a Mirrorless + Kit target of about 1,200 euros, it is a much more logical purchase if we really like photography. Now, if you have already bought an ultra Xiaomi 15, getting the kit is something you want yes or yes. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Mobile with better cameras that we have analyzed in recent months (2025)

The US suspects that Nvidia chips are arriving in China through Malaysia: it has decided to take action on the matter

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The United States and China fight an increasingly aggressive commercial war. In this pulse, both have imposed export controls to protect strategic sectors. Washington focuses on the most advanced chips, While Beijin responds with critical minerals restrictions. They seem firm measures, but everything indicates that they are not being fulfilled to the letter. Chinese is avoiding restrictions. At the beginning of last year we learned that the popular liberation army He had managed to do with the most powerful NVIDIA GPUs, among which were the GPU A100 and H100. This was particularly relevant because the export of these products is prohibited by the US Department of Commerce. {“Videid”: “X8WLH9Q”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “United States vs. China: The chips war”, “Tag”: “Webedia-prod”, “Duration”: “1611”} And they were not only the Chinese armed forces: also universities and research centers controlled by the government were using prohibited products. Washington believes that this has been possible by different ways, but concluded that the main channel were intermediary countries that collaborate with the Asian giant. First Singapore, now Malaysia. As The Economist points out, Singapore was one Of the countries that raised suspicions, simply because the figures did not square. In the last quarter of 2023, Nvidia multiplied by five shipments to customers in Singapore compared to the same period of the previous year, which suggested a possible detour to Chinese users. HGX H200, one of Nvidia’s most advanced products Now the focus is in Malaysia. According to Financial TimesThe United States suspects that many of the Nvidia chips enter the country end up in Chinese hands, avoiding current commercial restrictions. Given this scenario, Washington has begun to press the Malaysian government to control the trail of these latest generation chips. Tracking shipments is not so easy. The Minister of Commerce, Tengku Zafrul Aziz, has taken note of the requirement of the US and, he explains, has formed an interministerial working group to collaborate. However, he warns, that tracing chips shipments along the supply chain is not as simple as it seems and that it is a broad effort. Malaysia has become One of the great world epicenters of data centers, which explains the massive arrival of chips for the facilities that support companies such as Microsoft or Bytedance, the Tiktok matrix. According to Aziz, Washington is also promoting internal measures to reinforce control over the supply chain. In Xataka The general director of AMD is in China with one purpose: to snatch the AI ​​market to NVIDIA Waiting for results. For now, it remains to be seen if the pressure of the North American country will take effect. Malaysia has reasons to cooperate: a commercial retaliation could put its flourishing data centers at risk. Fulfill could simply be a way to protect your strategic position on the global technological map. The US does not want to give the arm to twist. The United States is doing everything possible to limit China’s access to avant -garde chips, mainly because of the Dual use risk: civil technologies that can also be applied in the military field. The concern is that these advances end up reinforcing the defensive and offensive abilities of the Chinese army. Images | Nvidia + Photoshop In Xataka | China and Russia are squeezing better than anyone the Nvidia GPUs thanks to a material need: they are vetoed (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news The US suspects that Nvidia chips are arriving in China through Malaysia: it has decided to take action on the matter It was originally posted in Xataka by Javier Marquez .

Mexico has decided that bullfights are without blood. Spain already tried it in the Balearic Islands and did not go well

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In 2022 there were A first conato. In Mexico, a nation whose strong tradition to bullfights is equated with Spain, “the holidays” were prohibited. However, the Supreme Court revoked the suspension and returned. Solution? In an unprecedented event in La Nación, Mexico City has decided that there will be no blood in the runs. In Spain similar initiatives have been carried out, although with discouraging results. End to deaths. As we said, in a historical decision, the Congress of Mexico City approved by an overwhelming majority of 61 votes to 1 the prohibition of traditional bullfights, eliminating the possibility of hurting or killing To bulls during these events. The legislation, promoted by legislator Xóchitl Bravo Espinosa and backed by the Head of Government Claudia Sheinbaumwill allow the realization of runs without violence or blood, in which they will only be used CAPOTES AND WITHOUT STAQUES No flags. The prohibition marks a milestone in the city with the largest bullring on the planet, The Plaza Méxicowith capacity for 42,000 spectators and epicenter of a tradition with almost 500 years of history in the country. Of course, the bullfighting sector has reacted with indignation, announcing legal challenges and protests against the measure. An intermediate measure. Unlike a total prohibition, the reform will allow a version of bullfighting in which bullfighters can only use the cape and the red crutch, with a maximum duration of 15 minutes per bull and a limit of six bulls per event. According to Bravo Espinosa, this measure seeks balance animal welfare With the economic protection of those who depend on the industry, such as sellers, bull breeders and employees of the squares. The problem? That the defenders of bullfighting consider that the new regulation completely distorts the essence of tradition. The Plaza México described the reform as “A clear threat to one of the most entrenched cultural traditions in the country”, while bullfighting groups have declared that they will legally fight to reverse the prohibition. Context of a battle. The truth is that the prohibition in Mexico City is the most recent chapter of a battle that has been gaining ground in different parts of the country. Since 2013, Five of the 31 states of Mexico They have banned bullfights, reflecting the growing rejection of bullfighting. As We explainin 2022 a federal judge He suspended the runs in the capital after a demand from a group of human rights. However, the Supreme Court He revoked the suspension and allowed him Return of events In January 2024. Now, with the new legislation, traditional runs are officially eliminated in Mexico City, although bullfighting industry continues to seek legal mechanisms to challenge the measure. A cultural shock. The debate on bullfight has transcended the legal scope and has become A symbol of tension between respect for traditions and the evolution of social values ​​around Animal rights. While the defenders argue that bullfighting generates tens of thousands of jobs and that the number of bulls sacrificed is insignificant compared to livestock in general, opponents have denounced the brutality of the show. According to data from the Congress of Mexico City, in 2019 there were 168 bulls sacrificed in Plaza México, which activists consider a sample of unnecessary suffering inflicted on animals. The group Animal heroeswhich for six years leads the Mexico campaign without bullfights, celebrated the reform, but warned that they will continue to fight for the total abolition of bullfighting in the country. For his part, Salvador Arias, a Mexican bullfighting lawyer, said that a similar model already had failed in Spain In the Balearic Islands, where the lack of interest led to its disappearance and, shortly after, to its revocation by the Spanish courts. The case of Balearic Islands. What happened in Spain dates back to 2017, when the Balearic Parliament approved a law that prohibited the death and suffering of bulls in runs, establishing what was called “Cumshots without blood”. This regulation required that the bulls were not subjected to physical damage and that the runs would be limited to 10 minutes per animal, without the possibility of using flags, estas or swords. The measure was held by the defenders of animal rights, but caused The rejection of the bullfighting sector and led to an intense debate about the viability of the show without its traditional component. The sentence. In December 2018, the Constitutional Court of Spain annulled the lawarguing that he invaded state powers on cultural heritage, since bullfighting had been declared in 2013 as part of the country’s intangible cultural heritage. With that decision, the traditional runs with death of the bull again in the Balearic Islands in 2019, although with additional restrictions imposed by the regional regulations, such as the prohibition of the entry of minors to the Celebrations. The Judgment of the Constitutional Court It was a setback for the anti -urine movement in Spain and evidenced the legal difficulties to prohibit bullfighting at the autonomous level without a major legislative reform. Extinction or transformation. Thus, the Government of Mexico City will have a period of seven months To issue the final regulation on runs without violence, including the participation of all parties involved. Mayor Clara Brugada He celebrated the decision and described it as a great advance in animal protection. Although the prohibition has already been approved, the future of bullfighting in Mexico remains in dispute. Bullfighting and fans have warned that they will continue to fight in court to reverse the measure, while activists continue to press for Total eradication of runs in the country. What seems clear is that the resolution in the Mexican capital could be the trigger for other states to follow the same path, marking an irreversible change in a tradition that has defined the cultural identity of the country for centuries. That without having the great unknown: knowing if the public will accept this new form of bullfighting without blood or if, as in Spain, the option does not work out. Image | Christian Ramiro, Jorge … Read more

The US has decided that the Gulf of Mexico is called the “Gulf of America.” Canada has avenged the “Canadian coffee”

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In a stage of tensions between countries, everything is political. To coffee. The Donald Trump’s arrival at the White House To fulfill his second term he is being a tsunami. He has put The chips industry abovehas arrived with Tariffs under your arm For Mexico and Canada, it has the Celectric eight at the point of sightas well as renewable energiesand plan to be harder with China. These actions, among others, have aroused a feeling of Boicot to American productsand it is so deep that neither coffee is fought. But not a brand or something, but an elaboration: Canada wants to steal American coffee. And Mexico also points. The American is not American. The history of American coffee is most curious. We have seen this preparation dozens of times in cinema and television. Also in coffee shops in half the world to discover that it is a cuffed coffee (in broad strokes, it has its “art” to know the proportions) and we might think that it is an American ‘invention’. But no: it turns out that it is European. Italian, to be more exact. In the United States they have the habit of filling the cup to the top with coffee alone. Filter coffee is very rooted in the country, but in the Europe of the Second World Warcoffee drank differently. It seems that, during the campaign in Italy, Americans who wanted coffee to enjoy the drink or Stay alert They couldn’t stand the espresso Italian (the roasted grains of more do not help) and the baristas prepared A combination of your palate taste: a espresso to which they added hot water to reduce it. Coffee voltage. That combination was baptized as ‘American’ and, in the end, the participation of Americans in their creation was simply that the most intense coffee was not for their taste. But well, it is still a preparation that is really settled, but as we say, to a scrambled river, everything is political and, in Canada, the ‘American’ is no longer so well seen. Recently, and due to political tensions between both countriessome coffee shops have made the decision to change the name ‘American’ for ‘Canadiano’. The elaboration is the same and, in summary accounts, among the American soldiers who fought in Italy there were also Canadians, so they will estimate that they have the same right to keep coffee. Marketing or rebellion? But it is not so much for ‘cultural’ appropriation, for defining it in some way, as to use it. Against what? Because against those tariffs driven by Trump (which are running with a Canadian response, on the other hand). It was the Kicking Horse Coffee cafeteria the first that started this movement that has penetrated between the press specialized in coffee and that has reached media such as CBC News. But, at the same time that there are those who see in this a way to reaffirm the Canadian identity, there are also critics that estimate that it is an orchestrated marketing strategy to sell more coffee among those who have that patriotic fire. And yes, Kicking Horse Coffee has been calling ‘Canadian’ for 16 years to elaboration, but as they explain In their networksnow they make it official and seek that the rest of Canadian coffee shops do the same. Some He has already taken the witness. “For 16 years, Kicking Horse Coffee has been called Canadiano to the Americans. Now, we make this official and ask the coffee shops throughout the country to join. Call it ‘Canadiano’” Mexico wonders things. In whatever, the idea has reached a Mexico that will be used to the change of name of the Gulf of Mexico for that of Gulf of America (America not for the continent, but for that American idea that they are America). In the Latin American country there are already those who are exploring The idea of ​​renowing American coffee as ‘Mexican coffee’ or ‘coffee of pot’. Now, Mexico already has a ‘pot of pot’. It is a typical way of preparing coffee in the country that consists of preparing it in a clay pot as if it were an infusion. It is more typical in rural areas than in large cities, but the issue is not so much the name and … politics. Boycott. We will see if it covers that campaign to replace the American with the Canadian (who, to propose, each country could now put the name he wants), but what is evident is that Trump’s arrival is causing movements worldwide. We have already commented that in Europe and Canada there are movements that ask for the boycott To American products, in networks there are lists European software and hardware to stop depending on the American and have even seen Virulent reactions to products like Tesla cars. Next to cars burning, the Canadian looks like a joke. In Xataka | The intricate technology behind a coffee capsule: how Nespresso has tried to create an “ecosystem” to Apple

The Tesla Roadster is a castle in the air, so two ex-engineers from Tesla have decided to create theirs

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We have heard of the Tesla Roadster Since 2017. almost ten years have passed and the Tesla supercar only delayed itself, having promised that It would begin to be manufactured in 2022, 2024and currently without news of any kind about its production jump. Tired of the wait, two former Tesla engineers have decided to create an ultralight and hand -made alternative. His name is Longbow, and his deliveries will begin next year. The concept they promised us. Beyond mastodon with hundreds of horses and thousands of horse horses, Tesla Roadster wanted to fulfill the fantasy of every lover of the Supercutives: a very fast vehicle, but also very light. Zero to one hundred in 1.9 seconds, 400 -hour tip speed, 1000 kilometers of autonomy and a weight of just 1,000 kilos. Basically, carry the mad concept of the old Lotus, Triumph, Jaguar or Caterham to a street electric vehicle. The alternative that comes. Tesla’s idea, at least until now, are just birds in the air. Mark Tapscott and Daniel Davey, engineers involved in Tesla, Lucid Motors and Byd projects, have decided to get to work and create an alternative. “We need a light and more driver -oriented sporting, an affordable and accessible one for those who love to drive. That is why we create LongBow. Our first two cars, the Speedster and the Roadster, embody everything that a modern car must be: agile, balanced, electrical and exciting. We are reviving an icon: the light British sports car” These two cars will weigh less than 995 kilos (895 in the case of the Speedster), and promise to be “the spiritual successors of British icons such as the Lotus Elise and the Jaguar E-Type”. There will be no difficult figures to promise: they will offer around 330 hp and will make 0 to 100 in just over three seconds. Its batteries will allow autonomies of between 442 and 280 kilometers, according to the model, and its manufacture will be completely handmade in the United Kingdom. How much does the caprice of the electric supercar cost. Longbow figure at 64,995 pounds (77,476 euros) the price of the roadster, and in about 100,000 euros the Speedster. Only 150 units of each will be manufactured, with a total of 35 special editions (Luminary First Edition and 25 Autograph Edition.). Reservations are now available On the official website of the manufacturer, waiting for deliveries to begin from next year. The extinction of Light Sports. Beyond peculiar and isolated cases, such as Longbow’s, the Radiography of Light Sports is not flattering. The trend with electrification is that of create overweight carswith few options in the market saving specific cases such as Toyota Gr86 either GR YARIS (both combustion). The dream of British Deportivo is still alive in projects for the wealthiest. Meanwhile, the rest is still waiting The affordable electric. Image | LongBow In Xataka | The small electric car has it very complicated. Especially if it is not called “sports car”

NASA decided to bombard the moon with low -budget commercial missions. The results are being bleak

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The image above was sent by the Athena Machines lunar module before running out of energy. Like his predecessor, he was horizontal, which prevented him from deploying his loads. To top it off, he did it in an orientation and an orography that did not allow him to recharge his batteries. Athena (IM-2) is one of the many Missions of the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload (Clps) Commercial Program. Announced in 2018, It is the return of the United States to the lunar surface after more than 50 yearssince NASA stopped doing lunar missions (manned or not) after Apollo 17. CLPS hires private companies to transport NASA scientific experiments To the moon. These companies develop commercial spaces that finance with NASA contracts and other agencies or companies interested in sending load to the Moon. For NASA it is a very low cost approach, since the contracts revolve around 100 million dollars per mission, while the alunizas of the Surveyor program of the 1960s cost 10 times more (adjusting their value from then on inflation). It is also a high -risk approach, how they are demonstrating the first results. NASA pays the agreed amount and does not cover cost overruns, transferring to companies a huge technical and financial challenge. For NASA a failure represents a manageable loss, so it is bombing the moon of CLPS missions. For companies, the pressure is increasing. A difficult beginning The CLPS missions had to start launching in 2020. The Orbitbeyond company canceled its contract in 2019 for financial problems, renouncing before starting. Masten Space, another selected, broke in 2022, canceling his mission planned by 2023. Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines ended up delaying their releases, but they are still in the race. However, of the four CLPS missions launched to date, only one has achieved a completely successful moon landing: ❌ Astrobotic pilgrim. The first CLPS mission. He received NASA 79.5 million dollars to transport 14 useful charges to the Moon. It was launched on January 8, 2024 with a Vulcan Centaur rocket of Ula. The ship suffered a propellant leak shortly after the launch that left it without possibilities to reach the lunar surface. He went down in history as First American attempt of moon landing from the Apollo missions, but the fuel escape left it unusable. First failure.❌ Odysseus of intuitive machines. The IM-1 mission received 77.5 million dollars from NASA to send six scientific instruments to the moon. It was launched on February 15, 2024 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Spacex. Unlike pilgrim, the Nova-C ship “Odysseus” reached the lunar surface, But it was sidewayswhich prevented deploying many of its useful charges. Even so, it continued to work for seven days before running out of energy.✔️ Blue Ghost of Firefly Aerospace. The mission received a contract of 101.5 million from the NASA to take 10 useful charges to the moon. It was launched on January 15, 2025 in a Falcon 9 rocket in Spacex. The ship alunicized smoothly and vertically on March 2, 2025. It was the first completely successful mooning of a private company on the moon. Among other instruments, the mission deployed a heat probe under the lunar regol.❌ Athena of intuitive machines. The second mission of Intuitive Machines received 47 million dollars from NASA to display the prime-1 ice prospecting experiment on the moon. It was launched on February 27, 2025 in a Falcon 9 rocket. Like Odysseus, the Athena ship managed to descend to the Mons Mouton region, near the South Lunar Pole, but it was left aside again due to problems with its navigation sensors. Consequently, he could not recharge his batteries and died prematurely after transmitting images and some initial data. The NASA trailblazer lunar orbiter ran the same fate launched next to Athena as part of another agency’s low cost program: the Simplex missions. NASA lost contact with the orbiter shortly after its deployment. Its predecessor, the Cubesat Lunah-Map launched next to the Lunar Artemis I mission, also ended in failure due to a propulsion failure. Another moment that dazzled the Clps missions was the cancellation of the Viper Rover when it was already built. NASA’s rover, designed to search water in the South Lunar Pole, was going to be launched with the Astrobotic Griffin module, but was canceled by NASA so as not to have to take delays and cost overheads. Of course, instead of dismantling it, the agency has ended up making it available to private companies interested in operating it. The following to try Astrobotic, with the Lunar Griffin module, scheduled for the end of this year Intuitive Machines, with the IM-4 missions (which will take the prospect drill of the European Space Agency to the South Lunar Pole) and IM-3 (which will travel to an enigmatic lunar swirl, Reiner Gamma), in 2026 Firefly Aerospace, with the Blue Ghost 2 missions, next year, and Blue Ghost 3, in 2028 (using an orbiter and a landing module to investigate the Gruithuisen domes, a lunar territory never explored) And Draper, aboard the Apex module of the Japanese company Ispace, with the aim of alunizar on the hidden face of the moon The half full glass Image: Firefly Aerospace Despite these setbacks, each ship of the Clps program has helped the development of the companies involved. Although the scientific value of these missions is much lower than that of more advanced programs, such as those of the Chinese space agency, CLPS offers NASA a more economical and flexible path to explore the moon and start energizing a lunar economy. The program has had a difficult start (after all they were high -risk missions), but has fulfilled the objective of involving private industry in lunar exploration, lowering access to the moon and delivering some scientific results to a comparatively low cost. If the next missions manage to improve the success rate, CLPS will be the scientific support that the artemis man -manned program needs. Image | Intuitive machines In Xataka | Elon Musk has … Read more

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