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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Mexico
      Mexico’s cartels luring hundreds of recruits every week, research finds

      Report highlights size and ‘enormous power’ of crime groups that hold sway over areas of the country and economy

      Sinaloa Cartel member holds a handgun with others in background in a safe house in Culiacan, Mexico
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      Mexico
      Mexican leader angers airlines as military leads aviation overhaul

      Armed forces run new airport and airline as leftist president relies on them to reshape economy

      National Guard members in front of a empty check-in counters at Felipe Angeles International Aiport
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Mexico
      Mexico gears up for female-led presidential race

      Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez will aim to show they can capitalise on companies diversifying from China

      Claudia Sheinbaum raises her left fist in the air as she speaks from a podium
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      News in-depthAmericas society
      Parents burn ‘decolonial’ school textbooks in Mexico culture war

      López Obrador defends anti-capitalist and gender-neutral stance in children’s new learning materials

    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Mexico
      Head of Mexico’s agency for finding missing people resigns

      Move comes as government of López Obrador conducts a census of individuals who have disappeared

      Family members of 43 missing student teachers march in Mexico
    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
      The Big Read
      The militarisation of Mexico’s economy

      The influence of the armed forces has grown dramatically under Andrés Manuel López Obrador. But critics say there is no accountability or transparency

      Montage of images of Andrés Manuel López Obrador against a background of marching Mexican soldiers and the Mexican flag
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      News in-depthMexican politics
      Mexican president’s populism looms over scientist protégé

      Leadership hopeful Claudia Sheinbaum faces questions over whether she can win new voters despite technocratic background

      Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters as she leaves a rally in Mexico City
    • Monday, 17 July, 2023
      OutlookMichael Stott
      Guessing game heats up over Amlo’s successor

      Contenders are jostling for the all-important position as president’s favourite

      Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the outgoing Mexican president, has retained his popularity, making his chosen successor candidate a clear frontrunner in next year’s election
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Mexican politics
      Outsider threatens to shake up Mexico’s presidential race

      Xóchitl Gálvez has come from poverty to challenge President López Obrador’s chosen successor

      Xóchitl Gálvez talks into a microphone
    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      News in-depthMexican politics
      Mexico’s president doubles down ahead of tense succession

      Quick-fire move to pass 20 laws seen as attempt to cement Amlo’s legacy

      Andrés Manuel López Obrador
    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      Mexican politics
      Mexico’s leader criticises move to block military control of National Guard

      Supreme court ruling halts López Obrador’s expansion of armed forces’ role

      Members of Mexico’s National Guard
    • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
      Michael Stott
      In power but not in agreement: Latin America’s quarrelling left

      The leaders of the region’s biggest economies cannot agree on questions of gender, climate and democracy

      Chile’s Gabriel Boric and Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva shake hands
    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Mexico
      Mexico’s president seeks help from China’s Xi on deadly fentanyl imports

      Plea from Andrés Manuel López Obrador follows pressure from US lawmakers over trafficking of drug across border

      Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks to media
    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      News in-depthMexico
      US turns up heat on Mexico after cartel kidnappings

      Deaths of US citizens and steeply rising fentanyl casualties prompt rising frustration in Washington

      State police keep watch at the scene where authorities found the bodies of two of four Americans kidnapped by gunmen, in Matamoros, Mexico
    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast30 min listen
      Is Mexico slipping into autocracy?

      Gideon talks to academic and writer Denise Dresser about President Andrés Manuel Lóp…

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      Americas economy
      Tesla to build car plant in Monterrey, says Mexico’s president

      López Obrador confirms investment after finalising details with carmaker’s chief executive Elon Musk

      A Tesla Model Y in a production hall of the Tesla Gigafactory
    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Gideon Rachman
      Amlo’s strongman act is weakening Mexico

      The president’s attacks on national institutions threaten democracy and stability

      James Ferguson illustration of the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador sanding in front of the flag, He is holding the legs of the flag’s brown eagle with one hand and   scissors in the other
    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Mexico
      Mexico law targets elections watchdog

      Measure championed by López Obrador alarms critics who say it threatens democracy

      Protesters in November march against the electoral reforms backed by Mexico’s president
    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Americas politics & policy
      North American leaders set aside tensions to focus on chips and migration

      Leaders from US, Mexico and Canada discuss ways to enhance economic co-operation at Mexico City summit

      US president Joe Biden, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister
    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      Mexico
      Mexico’s Congress approves López Obrador’s cuts to electoral authority

      Populist president’s reform will undermine ability of INE to organise elections, warns opposition

      Jorge Romero Herrera, centre, deputy of Mexico’s opposition National Action party, speaking against the country’s electoral reform
    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      Mexico
      Mexico bill threatens independence of electoral oversight, warns official

      Former official says Andrés Manuel López Obrador will undercut democratic gains made since one-party rule

      People protest against the electoral reform proposed by pesident Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and in support of the National Electoral Institute, in Monterrey, Mexico
    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Mexico
      López Obrador proposes handing more power to Mexico’s military

      President submits reform to strip the country’s National Guard of civilian leadership

      Members of the National Guard with their sniffer dogs take part in a military parade
    • Saturday, 13 August, 2022
      News in-depthMexico
      Mexico’s president proposes ban on beer brewing as drought intensifies

      López Obrador takes aim at industry using dwindling water resources while local people suffer

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      Petroleos Mexicanos
      Mexico presses ahead with multibillion-dollar bet on fossil fuels

      Formal opening of Pemex’s Dos Bocas refinery heralded a landmark by president despite questions over profitability

    • Sunday, 12 June, 2022
      Mexico
      Mexico elections chief sounds alarm over López Obrador’s ‘reform’ plan

      President wants to overhaul independent election body ahead of contests in 2024

      Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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