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With elections affecting half the world’s population this year, campaigners offer their view on the chances of real change

Claudia Sheinbaum is the presidential front-runner, with 20,000 other posts up for grabs in the country’s biggest election ever

A Puente poll represents a rare survey of the Mexican public by U.S. media.

Tens of millions of Mexicans will go to the polls on June 2 to vote in the country’s largest election in history. The election will allow voters to decide more than 20,700 positions at the local and national levels.

Claudia Sheinbaum has capitalized on the president’s popularity throughout her campaign, but will the climate scientist be able to pursue her own agenda once elected?

Based on manifestos, public statements, and appearances in the last of three presidential debates held on May 19, here is how the candidates have vowed to deal with organized criminal gangs in the country who still have a lot of power over territories and communities.

Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides, while drug cartels have split the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms. The atmosphere is literally heating up, amid a wave of unusual heat, drought, pollution and political…

A gunman shot dead an aspiring mayor at a rally Wednesday in southern Mexico, marking a bloody end to campaigning in a country expected to elect its first woman president this weekend.

Campaigning to be Mexico's next president approached a climax Wednesday with two women leading the race for the first time in the violence-plagued Latin American nation.