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Mexican president wants to meet with Biden in Washington on migration, drug trafficking

Mexico’s top diplomat, Alicia Bárcena, says President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to travel to Washington D

The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2023

Mexican president defends inclusion of Russian military contingent in Independence parade

Mexico's president is defending the participation of a contingent of Russian soldiers in a military parade over the weekend

The Independent UK · Sep 18, 2023

Mexico extradites son of former Sinaloa cartel leader 'El Chapo' to the U.S.

Ovidio Guzmán López, a son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, faces drug trafficking, money laundering and other charges in the United States. Mexican security forces captured Guzmán López in January.

WEKU · Sep 16, 2023

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Mexico's former foreign minister threatens to leave party over candidate selection process

Mexico’s former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard says that he will wait to see how the ruling party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador handles his call to nullify its recently completed presidential candidate selection process, but warned that if not satisfied he will leave the party

The Independent UK · Sep 11, 2023

Mexico is likely to elect first female president in 2024

With the selection of former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as the candidate of the country’s ruling party in next June’s election, Mexico will have for the first time two women from its main political powers competing for the presidency

The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2023

Mexico is likely to get its first female president after top parties choose 2 women as candidates

The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2023

Mexico set for first female president in 2024 election

Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum and senator Xóchitl Gálvez were selected as the candidates for the two major electoral groups

The Guardian - AU · Sep 7, 2023

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Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum to be the ruling party's presidential candidate

The former mayor of Mexico City will be the dominant ruling party’s presidential candidate, making it highly likely that the country will elect its first female president next year

The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2023

Mexican president's state of the union address suggests crime is not a problem

Mexico's president delivered his second-to-last state of the union address and perhaps what was most striking about his 1 1/2 hour speech was what he didn't talk about: drugs, crime or drug cartels

The Independent UK · Sep 1, 2023

Mexico City's old airport told to cut flights by 17%, leading airlines to warn of mass cancellations

The Mexican government has ordered Mexico City’s old airport to cut flights by 17%, sparking warnings by airlines of possible mass flight cancellations

The Independent UK · Sep 1, 2023

Mexico's broad opposition coalition announces Sen. Xóchitl Gálvez will run for presidency in 2024

Mexico’s broad opposition coalition announced it has chosen Senator Xóchitl Gálvez as its candidate in the June 2, 2024 presidential elections

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2023

Candidates vying to run to become Mexico's president under AMLO's party close their campaigns

Two presidential contenders vying for the coveted spot as the candidate of Mexico’s ruling party, Morena, in upcoming presidential elections, closed their campaigns for the nomination this weekend

The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2023

Experts warn against wave of fake news ahead of Mexico’s 2024 presidential election

Mexico's 2024 presidential election is less than a year away and political analysts and academics are warning of a wave of disinformation and fake news that continues to spread online

The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2023

Official leading search for Mexico's disappeared resigns as critics worry government may rig numbers

The head of Mexico’s commission leading the search for tens of thousands who have disappeared over past decades of violence has stepped down as the government increasingly comes under criticism of trying to undermine the true numbers of the missing

The Independent UK · Aug 24, 2023

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The Independent UK · Aug 10, 2023

Mexico's army-run airline to take off in September, but the flight attendants won't be soldiers

Mexico has announced its army-run airline will start up in September, but flight attendants won’t be soldiers

The Independent UK · Aug 10, 2023

Mexico's poverty rate declines from 50% to 43.5% in four years as remittances almost double

The poverty rate in Mexico has declined from 49.9% to 43.5% of the population, according to the country's poverty analysis agency

The Independent UK · Aug 10, 2023

Mexico president asks why, if a woman criticizes him, he isn't considered victim of gender violence

Mexico's president is asking why, if a woman criticizes him, he isn’t considered victim of gender violence

The Guardian - US · Aug 9, 2023

Mexico: outrage as Amlo suggests critics guilty of ‘gender-based violence’ against him

Offhand remarks by Mexican president prompt condemnation in country with soaring levels of violence against women

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The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2023

In Mexico, accusations of 'communism' and 'fascism' mark school textbook debate

The debate over school textbooks has gone ballistic in a short time as in Mexico

The Independent UK · Aug 2, 2023

Investigators recall surreal moments during years-long investigation in Mexico's missing students

Independent investigators leaving Mexico after eight years searching for answers to the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from a teachers’ college say they experienced a “double reality” that was unlike anything they had encountered in other international missions

The Independent UK · Jul 28, 2023

Mexico's president offers to buy US company's coastal property for $375 million to end dispute

Mexico’s president says he has offered to buy an American company’s Caribbean coast property for $385 million to end a bitter, years-long dispute

The Independent UK · Jul 20, 2023

As a child, she sold street tamales. A senator now, she's shaking up Mexico's presidential race.

A street-food salesgirl who became a tech entrepreneur and senator is shaking up the contest to succeed Mexico’s popular president

Tribune News Service · Jul 19, 2023

‘It’s inhumane.’ Mexican president blasts treatment of migrants by Texas

AUSTIN, Texas – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blasted the treatment of migrants following reporting earlier this week that officials received orders to push those crossing at the Texas border back into the Rio Grande and also were told not to give them water.

The Guardian - US · Jul 16, 2023

Mexico vigilante leader’s killing highlights failure to curb violence

Hipólito Mora’s death in a hail of bullets is just the latest murder as the country’s brutal crime conflict shows no sign of abating

The Independent UK · Jul 14, 2023

Mexican president continues attacking opposition candidate, despite electoral agency's order to stop

Mexico’s president plowed ahead with attacks against the opposition front-runner for the 2024 presidential elections despite a ruling by electoral authorities that he had violated equity and neutrality rules

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