Mexican president’s popularity soars even as country faces persistent turmoil
Amlo’s pension program helped boost his approval rating, but critics point to his various shortcomings as his term nears its end Life isn’t easy for...
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Mexican president bemoans ‘rude’ US fentanyl pressure in plea to Xi Jinping
Andrés Manuel López Obrador asks China to curb exports of opioid after lengthy denunciation of similar calls from US Mexico’s president has written to his...
Mexican children’s entertainer Chabelo dies aged 88
Comic, real name Xavier López, fronted children’s TV show that ran from 1967 to 2015 The Mexican children’s entertainer Xavier López, better known by his...
Mexican president blames US fentanyl crisis on ‘lack of hugs’ among families
Andrés Manuel López Obrador cites a lack ‘of hugs and embraces’ for 70,000 annual overdose deaths attributed to synthetic opioid Mexico’s president has said that...
‘Mexico is safer than the US,’ Amlo says after attack on four Americans
Mexico’s president pushes back against US critics of his security record after kidnapping near the border that left two dead As Mexico’s epidemic of violence...
Mexican president posts photo of what he claims is a Maya elf
Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the photo appeared to show an alux, a creature from Yucatán folklore Mexico’s president posted a photo on his social...
At least two dead in Mexico after second earthquake strikes within a week
Michoacán state suffers another temblor, felt as far away as Colima, Jalisco and Guerrero states A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck Mexico, causing at...
Retired Mexican general arrested over disappearance of 43 students in 2014
Ex-officer was head of army base in Iguala when students were abducted in what a report called a ‘state crime’ Mexican authorities have arrested a...
Mexico’s ex-attorney general arrested over disappearance of 43 students in 2014
Jesús Murillo held on charges of forced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice in notorious Guerrero case Mexico’s former attorney general has been arrested in...
Stay or go? Mexicans vote on Amlo’s performance in historic recall election
Despite Covid deaths and enduring drug violence, voters look poised to keep president in office in referendum he supports Maria de Lourdes loves her leader...
