The Latest Breaking News from López Obrador

Mexico’s Independence Day parade had even more of a militaristic air this year coming just days after the relatively new National Guard was passed completely to the command of the military

"Viva México!" President Andrés Manuel López Obrador shouted repeatedly — calls that were loudly echoed by the massive crowd that packed Mexico City's Zócalo square.

The 300 or so largely Maya inhabitants of the village of Vida y Esperanza fear the train will pollute the caves that supply their water, endanger their children and cut off their access to the outside world.

Hopes have faded of rescuing 10 men trapped by a flood in a Mexican coal mine this month

Mexico’s ambitious Maya Train project along the country’s Caribbean coast it is threatening the indigenous Maya people it was named for and dividing communities it was meant to help

TIJUANA, Mexico — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke in Tijuana on Friday morning, following a weekend of chaos in the border city that left more than 30 vehicles burned and residents in panic.

MEXICO CITY — After cartels unleashed a wave of violence across Mexico last week, killing civilians, blocking roads with burning vehicles and setting dozens of stores on fire, the government here responded as it often does to an outbreak of lawlessness: It sent in the troops.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s soft approach to confronting criminal groups is not working. In fact, it seems to be backfiring.

TIJUANA, Mexico — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Tuesday the arrests of six people allegedly involved in the various acts of violence in Tijuana on Friday when vehicles were set on fire in a dozen locations, people were forced off public transportation at gunpoint and roads were blocked.