Mexico, the border and the Americas, on the record.
Sunday, September 13, 2026 (UTC)
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Back issue · Sunday, September 13, 2026 · as it ran
The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Heatwave suspends classes across Baja California and Guadalajara Mayor announces reelection bid as national politics unfold.

Mexico Faces Heat and Politics · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-13 00:38Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A sun-scorched street in Tijuana, with children playing near a parched tree, while in the background, a group of people gather around a traditional mole vendor, and a politician stands at a podium, with a cityscape and stormy weather looming behind them.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received

Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A sun-scorched street in Tijuana, with children playing near a parched tree, while in the background, a group of people gather around a traditional mole vendor, and a politician stands at a podium, with a cityscape and stormy weather looming behind them. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.

The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)

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The States
University of Guadalajara reaches 100 schools with solar panels amid budget concerns AI illustrationhow this picture was made

University of Guadalajara hits 100 schools with solar panels, warns budget lags inflation

The university's UdeG Verde program reached 100 schools with solar panels on September 11, 2026, while rector Karla Planter Pérez said the 2026 budget grew only 2.4%, below inflation.

By Lucía Benítez · 10d
States Correspondent · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sourceshash-verified

The University of Guadalajara (UdeG) announced on September 11 that its UdeG Verde energy transition program has installed solar panels at 100 schools in its network.

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