The Latest Breaking News from Mexico

Whale To Go: Navy Takes On Crime Gangs Wiping Out Worlds Tiniest Porpoise

The numbers of vaquita porpoises in the wild have been reduced to a handful.

Zenger · Apr 13, 2022

Truckers protest Abbott's border rules

Truckers are blocking the Mexico-Texas border after Abbott deployed state troopers to inspect vehicles

Salon · Apr 13, 2022

Mexico, other Latin American countries condemned in annual US report on human rights

WASHINGTON — Countries in Latin America came under particularly harsh criticism in the U.S. State Department's annual report on human rights, with allies such as Mexico and adversaries including Nicaragua facing similar opprobrium.

Los Angeles Times · Apr 13, 2022

Mexico’s gun violence suit is barred by US law, companies say

The Mexican government’s U.S. suit against gun manufacturers over violence involving their products is illegal and must be dismissed, Smith & Wesson Brands Inc., Glock Inc. and other companies told a federal judge in Boston.

Tribune News Service · Apr 12, 2022

López Obrador won Mexico presidential recall vote, but critics blast electioneering tactics

The president, whose victory never was in doubt, benefited from his Morena party’s use of illegal tactics to get out the vote that critics say could weaken Mexico’s democracy.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 12, 2022

Blackburn: Tennesseans want border wall

In fact, Tennessee is located roughly 1,700 from Mexico and borders Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia

Salon · Apr 12, 2022

U.S. gun makers urge judge to throw out Mexico's $10 billion lawsuit

A U.S. judge on Tuesday questioned whether allowing Mexico to sue U.S. gun manufacturers for facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels would open the door to other countries suing them, including Russia over firearms used by Ukrainians in the ongoing war.

Reuters · Apr 12, 2022

Analysis-Mexican president turns up heat on lawmakers after vote win

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador quickly sought to leverage millions of votes he received in a Sunday referendum on his leadership, urging lawmakers to pass an electricity bill, arguing that not backing it would be tantamount to "treason."

Reuters · Apr 12, 2022

Old-style government practices seen in Mexican recall vote

Analysts in Mexico say President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's recall vote could, paradoxically,  leave Mexico's democracy weaker

The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2022

Anger mounts along Texas-Mexico border over long delays to commercial crossings

Mexican truck drivers blockaded two busy bridges at the border with United States on Monday amid rising tensions on both sides over an order by Texas Governor Greg Abbott that has slowed commercial crossings between Mexico and Texas.

Reuters · Apr 11, 2022