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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Hurricane Simon approaches Jalisco while IMSS workers protest and the peso falls to a 10-month low.

Mexico Weathered Storm · 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, 2026-10-13 00:27Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A darkened Jalisco coast shows people evacuating as Hurricane Simon looms in the background with heavy rain and strong winds, while in the foreground, protesters in vests and masks block a road, and a man in a suit looks worried, holding a wallet and looking out at the stormy sea.

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 darkened Jalisco coast shows people evacuating as Hurricane Simon looms in the background with heavy rain and strong winds, while in the foreground, protesters in vests and masks block a road, and a man in a suit looks worried, holding a wallet and looking out at the stormy sea. 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 Nation
Pemex health contracts awarded without bidding AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Pemex awarded health service contracts without public bidding on October 11 2026

State oil company Pemex skipped open tender for second level health contracts, per local media reports.

By Lucía Benítez · 15m
States Correspondent · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sources✓ hash-verified

Pemex awarded second-level health service contracts directly to a single company without running a public bidding process on 11 October 2026.

Separate reporting notes businessman Jack Landsmanas has secured new leasing and food service contracts at the state oil firm through Luz Elena González.

No contract values, or comment from Pemex, are included in the filed reports.

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