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Massive turnout in defense of Mexico's electoral authority

Tens of thousands of people have packed the capital’s main boulevard to protest President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposal to overhaul the country’s electoral authority in the largest demonstration against one of the president’s efforts during his nearly four years in office

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Botched autopsy in Mexico killing leads to cover-up charge

The killing of a young woman in Mexico City has brought accusations of a cover-up against authorities in a neighboring state who allegedly botched her autopsy

The Independent UK

Mexico's president plans regional meeting of leaders

Mexico’s president says he'll host a meeting of leaders from Latin America this month, including most of the wave of recently elected leftists

The Independent UK

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Cuba to send Mexico rocks as well as docs

After raising controversy by hiring hundreds of Cuban doctors, Mexico's president is set to anger critics again, by announcing plans to buy crushed rock ballast from Cuba for a tourist train project

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In Mexico, ruling party infighting gets worse

A blistering display of bare-knuckled political infighting has broken out in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party, complete with rumors of secret wiretaps and drug cartel ties

The Independent UK

Mexico’s Dying Democracy

AMLO and the toll of authoritarian populism.

Foreign Affairs

Biden, Mexico's López Obrador discuss immigration, summit

Presidents Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke Tuesday as a growing number of migrants from crisis-gripped Venezuela arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border

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Mexican congress approves keeping military in police work

Mexico's Congress has approved a constitutional reform that allows the armed forces to continue in domestic law enforcement duties until 2028

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Mexico president taps tax agency head for Economy Department

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has chosen the head of the country's tax agency to fill the cabinet-level post of secretary of the economy

The Independent UK

Drug gang kills 20 in attack on city hall in southern Mexico

A drug gang has shot to death 20 people, including a mayor and his father in the mountains of southern Mexico

The Independent UK

Mexican government considering army-run airline

Mexico's president is analyzing the creation of a state-owned, army-run airline that would fly 10 leased airplanes, as well as the former presidential jet

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Hack puts Latin American security agencies on edge

A massive trove of emails from Mexico’s Defense Department is among electronic communications taken by hackers from military and police security institutions in several Latin American countries

The Independent UK

Editorial: Mexico is losing the fight against drug violence

Four years after being elected on a promise to fight organized crime with “hugs, not bullets,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is now taking steps to increase the military’s role in public security. In doing so, he hopes to contain a renewed surge in gang-related violence. But degrading the…

Tribune News Service

Amlo promised to take Mexico’s army off the streets – but he made it more powerful

Soon after taking office, Andrés Manuel López Obrador created a new force, the national guard – and handed control of it over to the army

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Mexico's military on display in independence celebrations

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

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Mexico City's bells ring for Independence Day, in a massive celebration

"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.

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WikiLeaks founder's family brings campaign to Mexico

This week the objective was to insert mention of Julian Assange into a meeting between Mexico’s president and the United States’ top diplomat

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US invites Mexico to join semiconductor production effort

A high-level United States delegation invited Mexico to participate in a push to shift semiconductor production from Asia to North America and expand production of electric vehicles

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Mexico's Senate votes to hand over National Guard to army

Mexico's Senate has approved handing control of the country's recently created National Guard over to the military

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Mexico debates its no-bail policy for nonviolent suspects

In Mexico, a long list of nonviolent crimes bring automatic pretrial detention, with no bail or house arrest allowed

Chicago Sun-Times

Mexico’s ambitious Maya Train, touted for development, threatens Maya village’s water, future

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.

The Independent UK

Mexico's president revived dangerous form of coal mining

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

The Independent UK

Maya village's water, future threatened by Mexican train

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

Tribune News Service

Mexican president highlights his support of Baja California during visit to Tijuana

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.

Los Angeles Times

Mexico's president vowed to end the drug war. Instead he's doubled the number of troops in the streets

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.

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