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Waiting at the border for a new president

Dear readers,

This week we visited the border town of Ciudad Juárez, where hundreds of migrants are holding on in the hopes that the US will ease entry restrictions after Trump is gone. “Life plans have been reconsidered after January 20. Now, for many, it’s a matter of waiting four years at the border for the U.S. presidency to change, if it ever does,” says a nurse working there.

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Our guest columnist Marcos Colón, who attended the COP30 climate summit in the Amazon, provides a critical view of a gathering that has become so expensive that "delegates from poorer nations and grassroots civil society organizations, many of whom represent the communities most affected by the climate crisis, are being priced out of participation."

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We also met up with Hollywood heavyweight Jamie Lee Curtis, who said that "we are going to need to take to the streets more and more as time goes on, as they are all over the world. People are going to have to do the very thing that was done for civil rights."

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We hope you enjoy this selection of articles from EL PAÍS USA Edition.

Waiting at the border until the Trump era is over: When staying in Mexico becomes the first option

Hundreds of migrants live crowded together in Ciudad Juárez, awaiting legal changes in the US, while others have already settled with the idea of staying

Trump inaugurates a new protectionist era with threats of even higher tariffs

The US president doubled levies on India before the new rates took effect on Thursday, with multiple uncertainties still waiting to be cleared up

Last survivors of Hiroshima warn the world of risk of another nuclear conflict: ‘We haven’t learned anything in 80 years’

Satoshi Tanaka, who was a year old when the US dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city on August 6, 1945, fears that memories of the disaster will fade as those that experienced it pass away

Haiti seeks a plan to emerge from the abyss: How to resuscitate the economy amid the country’s worst security crisis

Development banks are preparing investment programs in infrastructure, social services, and private sector support for a possible de-escalation of violence. But the reality is that the situation is worsening

This is how Colombia’s super-rich evade, avoid and pay less taxes than the poor

Some 40% of the country’s wealthiest 0.01% have admitted to evading taxes. To pay less, they hide their money in tax havens and create companies or trusts that make it difficult to track their assets. Each year, tax evasion in Colombia amounts to 8% of GDP, or more than $130 billion

Claude Canizares, NASA astrophysicist: ‘If scientists can’t speak the truth, society really isn’t in a very good place’

The former vice president of MIT warns of the ‘devastating’ consequences of Donald Trump’s policies on the world of science

ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’

Some college students are beginning to limit their use of artificial intelligence, so as not to hinder their own creativity, discipline and critical thinking

COP30 in the Amazon: Crucial summit or climate carnival?

That the event is taking place in such a symbolic territory is a powerful statement that offers an extraordinary opportunity to change the narrative, re-center Indigenous knowledge, and reimagine governance

Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘We’re going to have to take to the streets again to fight like we did for civil rights’

The actress reprises the role that made her a teen icon alongside Lindsay Lohan in the ‘Freaky Friday’ sequel

Exploring Spain’s little-known legacy in Shanghai

A neo-Mudéjar mansion, luxury cinemas, dance halls, and the remnants of a Basque pelota court in the