内容摘要：Unions members on Wednesday took to the streets in Colombia’s major cities. In the capital, Bogota, some protesters blocked public bus lanes, impeding the movement of thousands of people, according to the mayor’s office.

Unions members on Wednesday took to the streets in Colombia’s major cities. In the capital, Bogota, some protesters blocked public bus lanes, impeding the movement of thousands of people, according to the mayor’s office.

“From a sort of weather perspective in that sense it wasn’t rare, but the impacts were actually really bad,” Otto told The Associated Press in an interview.“The changes we have seen in the last 20 years, which feels like just yesterday, are so strong,” Otto said. Her study found that this heat wave is now four times more likely to happen now than it was in the year 2000 when it was nearly a degree (0.5 degrees Celsius) cooler than now. “It seems sort of far away and a different world.”

A man fills containers with water due to the shortage caused by high temperatures and drought in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)A man fills containers with water due to the shortage caused by high temperatures and drought in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)While other groups of international scientists — and the global carbon emissions reduction target adopted by countries in the 2015 Paris climate agreement — refer to warming since pre-industrial time in mid 1800s, Otto said comparing what’s happening now to the year 2000 is more striking.

“We’re looking at a shifting baseline - what was once extreme but rare is becoming increasingly common,” said University of Southern California Marine Studies Chair Carly Kenkel, who wasn’t part of the attribution team’s study. She said the analysis is “the logical conclusion based on the data.”A surfer rides a wave at Windandsea Beach on May 30, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

A surfer rides a wave at Windandsea Beach on May 30, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

The study looked at a large swath of the continent, including southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize and Honduras and the hottest five consecutive days and hottest five consecutive nights. For most of the area, those five days ran from June 3 to 7 and those five nights were June 5 to 9, but in a few places the peak heat started May 26, Otto said.“The judiciary has a lot of scores to settle in this country,” said Georgina De la Fuente, election specialist with the Mexican consulting firm Strategia Electoral.

A supporter of Yasmin Esquivel, who is running for election for the Mexican Supreme Court, holds a campaign pamphlet at her closing campaign rally in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)A supporter of Yasmin Esquivel, who is running for election for the Mexican Supreme Court, holds a campaign pamphlet at her closing campaign rally in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

But critics say the ruling party is simply politicizing the courts at an opportune moment, when Sheinbaum is highly popular.Judicial candidates are not allowed to announce their party affiliation and are unable to accept party funds or hold major campaign events. A number of former Morena government officials and allies, however, have posted lists on social media of which ones to elect.