ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR

As images of the devastating blaze at an immigration detention center in Mexico consume news broadcasts and social media, families scattered across the Americas are suffering the consequences, reeling with agony as they await news of their loved ones.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promises the investigation of the fire that killed 38 migrants will 'find out what really happened.'

Mexican authorities say eight employees or officials are being investigated for possible misconduct at a migrant detention center where a fire killed 39 detained men.

Xavier López, a Mexican children's comic better known by his stage name, “Chabelo,” has died at 88.

The State Department has raised safety concerns about Mexico in recent months after the kidnapping of four Americans resulted in three deaths, including an innocent bystander.

Mexico's president has said that U.S. families are to blame for the fentanyl overdose crisis because they don't hug their kids enough.

Health authorities in Mexico say they will use more traditional medicine and more Cuban doctors in the country's woefully underequipped public hospital system.

The president of Mexico claimed his nation was safer than the U.S. after receiving widespread criticism following the kidnapping of four American tourists by cartel members.

Mexico's president has claimed that his country is safer than the United States, a week after two U.S. citizens were killed and two kidnapped in the border city of Matamoros.

It was supposed to be a fun road trip to Mexico for a group of childhood friends.

President López Obrador cast the fentanyl epidemic as a U.S. problem and said the demands, made after the Matamoros kidnappings, were a threat to sovereignty.

Mexico's president says his country does not produce or consume fentanyl, despite enormous evidence to the contrary.

When four Americans were kidnapped in the border city of Matamoros, authorities rescued the survivors after three days.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, sounded off after two Americans were murdered among four total kidnapped by cartels in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

The large crowds of Mexicans that took to the streets on Feb. 26 were protesting a new law that, once signed and published, would cut the budget and workforce of the country’s election regulator, known as the INE. In a country where votes were routinely rigged during much of the 20th century, the new law is widely viewed as a threat to a still-young multiparty system. It’s also seen as part of an effort by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as AMLO, to undermine democratic norms and bo

Mexico's president says his country is more democratic than the United States.

The Mexican president says that electric car company Tesla has committed to building a plant in the industrial hub of Monterrey in northern Mexico.

Mexico’s president lashed out Monday at demonstrators who protested cuts to election funding over the weekend, belittling their concerns about threats to democracy and dashing any hopes that he would try to ease rising political tensions.

Tens of thousands of people filled Mexico City's vast main plaza to protest electoral law reforms that they say threaten democracy.

Mexico is undergoing a fevered competition among states to win a potential Tesla facility in jostling reminiscent of what happens among U.S. cities and states vying to win investments from tech companies.

Mexico’s Senate has approved a reform of the country’s electoral institute, a move that opponents say will undercut democracy but which the president contends will save money and reduce political privileges.

A U.S. jury has convicted a former Mexican presidential cabinet member of taking massive bribes to protect the drug cartels he was tasked with combating.

In less than two months, more than 50 people have died in Peru, largely protesters at the hands of police officers.

The man who was once Mexico’s top security official and in charge of fighting the drug cartels is going on trial on charges of helping the Sinaloa Cartel traffic drugs and protect them from capture.

The mayor of Mexico City says 6,060 National Guard officers will be posted in the city's subway system after a series of accidents that officials say could be due to sabotage.

President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are seeking to downplay their frustrations with one another on migration and trade as they meet for the North America Leaders Summit.

Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador is challenging U.S. President Joe Biden to end an attitude of “abandonment” and “disdain” for Latin America and the Caribbean as the two leaders meet in Mexico City.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — It's been a big week for U.S.-Mexico relations, and that was even before President Joe Biden becomes the first U.S. leader to visit Mexico in nearly a decade. The two presidents, along with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, will gather in Mexico City on Monday and Tuesday for a North American leaders summit. Biden hopes to use the summit "to keep driving North America's economic competitiveness and help promote inclusive growth and prosperity,” said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. Lopez Obrador is focused on economic integration for North America, supporting the poor in the Americas and regional relationships that put all governments on equal footing. Both Mexico’s proximity to the U.S. and existing trade agreements would be incentives for American factories to relocate south of the border.

It’s been a big week for U.S.-Mexico relations, and that was even before President Joe Biden becomes the first U.S. leader to visit Mexico in nearly a decade.

Mexico’s capture of a son of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán this week likely is an isolated nod to a drug war strategy that Mexico’s current administration has abandoned rather than a sign that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s thinking has changed.

The operation to detain Ovidio Guzman, the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, unleashed firefights that turned the northern city of Culiacan into a war zone, authorities said Friday.

MEXICO CITY — (AP) — Organized crime paralyzed the western Mexico city of Culiacan, a stronghold of the Sinaloa drug cartel, as alleged cartel members carjacked residents and set vehicles ablaze on Thursday in apparent response to the arrest of a cartel leader. Sinaloa state security chief Cristóbal Castañeda warned citizens via Twitter, adding that the state was responding and would inform when they could. One of the most notorious occurred in October 2019, when federal security forces corned Ovidio Guzmán, one of the sons of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán. López Obrador said at the time he had made the decision to avoid the loss of life. López Obrador entered office highly critical of the toll of his predecessors’ drug war.

The Mexican military has captured a son of the imprisoned drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

President Joe Biden says he intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border in connection with his meeting next week in Mexico City with the leaders of Canada and Mexico.

Mexico's president is appealing to the country's citizens not to accept holiday handouts and gifts from drug gangs.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Mexico next month for North American leaders summit, White House officials said Tuesday. Biden will meet with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Jan. 9-10. White House national security spokesman John Kirby said the leaders will discuss economic stability, security and immigration, among other topics. Last year, the three leaders met in Washington. Mexico announced the summit last month but the U.S. had not confirmed.

President Joe Biden will travel to Mexico next month for North American leaders summit.

Mexico's president has asked Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Bad Bunny to play a free concert in Mexico City, to make up for a fake ticket scandal that left thousands frustrated at a sold-out weekend appearance.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador loves big projects and hates unfinished ones, but that is likely what he will leave his successor when he leaves office at the end of 2024.

Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in Mexico’s capital in a show of support for President Manuel López Obrador, who before assuming the presidency led some of the country’s biggest protests.

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the tens of thousands who demonstrated against his proposal to overhaul the country’s electoral authority were people in favor of privilege, racism and classism.

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.

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz said the Biden administration is working on a plan to unite the U.S., Canada and Mexico under an international coalition much like the European Union.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Days of widespread drug cartel arson and shootings in four Mexican states last week have left people asking why drug cartels exploded, and what do they want.

Mexico Army Policing FILE - Members of Mexico's National Guard march in the Independence Day military parade, in the capital's main plaza, the Zocalo, in Mexico City, Sept. 16, 2019. Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has begun exploring plans to side-step congress to hand formal control of the National Guard to the army. Neither the National Guard nor the military have been able to lower the insecurity in the country, however. When López Obrador was running for president, he called for taking the army off the streets. Mexico’s army has been deeply involved in policing since the start of the 2006 drug war.

Mexico's president has begun exploring plans to sidestep congress to hand formal control of the National Guard to the army.

Former Justice Department prosecutor James Trusty joined Catherine Herridge to discuss the Jan. 6 investigation into former President Donald Trump. Trusty has been retained by Trump in a defamation suit against CNN.

Mexico Lopez Obrador Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador listens to a journalist's question during his daily press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Friday, July 8, 2022. Analysts say President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is starting to sound more like right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, calling anyone who opposes him a foreign agent. They are traitors to the country!” López Obrador said of domestic opposition to his plans to favor the state-owned electrical company. “We are not going to retreat one step,” López Obrador said of the electricity dispute, which could lead to U.S. trade sanctions. “Mexico is an independent country, it is not a colony of any foreign country, and the president of Mexico isn't a puppet, isn't the lackey of any foreign government.”Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.

In a bid to stoke nationalism and justify his policies, Mexico's president has increasingly taken to calling his opponents “traitors” and accused them of working for the foreign governments.

The recent US trade complaint about Mexico’s energy policy is a direct attack on one of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s core beliefs.

From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, guest worker agreements with Mexico curbed undocumented border crossings and spurred growth. They could do so again today.

Refusing to spend doesn’t equate to fiscal discipline. Mexico’s AMLO needs to enable investment in the country to reverse poor growth under successive presidents.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is visiting Washington on Tuesday to meet with President Joe Biden.

Mexico Obit Luis Echeverria FILE - Luis Echeverria Alvarez speaks to party members after becoming the official nominee for the 1970-76 presidential race, during the closing session of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party's conventional at the Olympic Sports Palace in Mexico City, Nov. 16, 1969. López Obrador did not provide a cause of death for Echeverria, who governed Mexico from 1970 to 1976. Born on Jan. 17, 1922, in Mexico City, Echeverria received a law degree from Mexico’s Autonomous National University in 1945. In his later years, Echeverria tried to project himself as an elder statesman, and a few times— when his health permitted — held forth unrepentantly before journalists. But he mainly lived in reclusive retirement at his sprawling home in an upscale Mexico City neighborhood.

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday, July 8 in Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him as he delivered a campaign speech. Here's a global look at other high-profile political assassinations in the 21st century:— Oct. 15 2021: British lawmaker David Amess is stabbed to death by an Islamic State supporter while meeting with voters. — December 27, 2007: Benazir Bhutto, the first female prime minister in a Muslim-majority country as well as Pakistan’s second nationally elected prime minister, was shot at then attacked by a suicide bomber at a political rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. — Feb. 14, 2005: Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is killed by a suicide truck bomb on a seaside boulevard in Beirut. — March 12, 2003: Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is shot dead in front of the Serbian government headquarters in Belgrade.

Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday by a gunman who opened fire on him as he delivered a campaign speech on a street in western Japan, shocking the country.

Leaders around the world are condemning the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while recalling him as a man devoted to peace, security and international cooperation.

Questions about the security strategy of Mexico's president have mounted since two Jesuit priests were murdered last month.

Three women and four men, including a minor, were shot at their home in the eastern state of Veracruz, officials said.

The prosecutor's office did not say whether the suspected criminals belonged to a drug trafficking cartel, although such gangs operate in the region.

Rep. Ted Lieu “quoted” Jesus Christ to quietly confront Republicans who are targeting the rights of LGBTQ Americans.

Scorching temperatures are in store for the southwestern U.S. over the next several days. Cities like Phoenix, Las Vegas and Palm Springs in California are expected to top 110 degrees. (June 8)

President Joe Biden says democracy is an “essential ingredient” for the Western Hemisphere's future, an implicit rebuttal to leaders from around the world who boycotted the Summit of the Americas because authoritarians were not invited.

Mexico Elections FILE - Supporters of presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the Morena party, wait for his arrival at Mexico City's Zocalo plaza, July 1, 2018. In 2022, Mexico’s ruling Morena party looks poised to win at least four of the six races for state governorships on June 5th, on the back of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and the absence of a credible opposition, analysts say. Basically, Morena is now a broad tent made of anyone who López Obrador — a political pragmatist who sometimes woos opposition politicians with ambassadorships — allows in. In the two states where Morena is trailing — Aguascalientes and Durango — the candidates are running jointly for the PRI and the conservative National Action Party. Morena is also likely to take the states of Oaxaca and Hidalgo, whose current PRI governors have been oddly close to López Obrador.

Sunday’s gubernatorial elections in six Mexican states may be the high-water mark for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party, which is poised to take at least four of the six races.

Guatemala Migrant Guatemalan migrant Juana Alonso Santizo arrives at La Aurora international airport in Guatemala City, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) (Moises Castillo)GUATEMALA CITY — (AP) — An Indigenous migrant who was accused of kidnapping and jailed in a northern Mexico border city returned to her homeland of Guatemala on Sunday as a free woman after spending more than seven years in prison without a trial. A Mexican court ordered the immediate release of Juana Alonzo Santizo, 35, on Saturday. The court ruled there was no consistent evidence against her, said Netzaí Sandoval, head of Mexico's federal public defenders office. Police then accused her of kidnapping and put her in jail, Sandoval said.

An Indigenous migrant who was accused of kidnapping and jailed in a northern Mexico border city has returned to her homeland of Guatemala as a free woman after spending more than seven years in prison without a trial.

Abortion is a hot topic with the Supreme Court's reconsideration of Roe v. Wade in this election cycle. Here's what Levittown voters had to say about it.

Escobar's death is now being investigated as femicide, after originally being registered as a disappearance, officials said.

(AP Photo/Moises Castillo) (Moises Castillo)GUATEMALA CITY — (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador started a five-day tour to four Central American countries and Cuba on Thursday by lashing out at the U.S. government. López Obrador criticized American officials sharply for being quick to send billions to Ukraine, while dragging their feet on development aid to Central America. The Mexican leader had been angered that the United States rebuffed his calls to help expand his tree-planting program to Central America. López Obrador will be received in Central America, in part, as an emissary of the United States when it comes to migration policy. López Obrador has largely governed as a nationalist and populist, but he has positioned himself politically as a a devoted leftist.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has started a five-day tour to four Central American countries and Cuba by lashing out at the U.S. government.

Francisco Javier Rodriguez Hernandez is also accused of controlling several laboratories for the production of synthetic drugs.

Nationalizing Mexico’s lithium reserves and extending state control over electricity and energy will undermine the region’s prosperity and security.

The two leaders talked as the U.S. prepares to lift the policy that has allowed the U.S. to expel migrants under COVID protocols.

El Salvador Gangs FILE - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks to the press at Mexico's National Palace after meeting with the President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City, March 12, 2019. El Salvador’s president has threatened Tuesday, April 6, 2022, that he will cut off food for imprisoned members of street gangs if they “unleash a wave of crimes.” (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File) (Marco Ugarte)SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — (AP) — President Nayib Bukele asked El Salvador’s congress Sunday to extend an anti-gang emergency decree for another 30 days. The original 30-day state of emergency approved in late March restricts the right to gather, to be informed of rights and have access to a lawyer. Rights groups have expressed concerns that innocent people are being caught up in sweeps targeting the notorious violent street gangs. Their power is strongest in El Salvador’s poorest neighborhoods where the state has long been absent.

The unit was created in 1997 and worked on cases such as the capture of notorious drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Mexico US Electricity FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a ceremony to commemorate in Mexico City's main square the Zocalo, Aug. 13, 2021. Lopez Obrador failed to find enough votes late Sunday, April 17, 2022, to pass a constitutional reform limiting private and foreign firms in the electrical power industry. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File) (Eduardo Verdugo)MEXICO CITY — (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador failed to find enough votes late Sunday to pass a constitutional reform limiting private and foreign firms in the electrical power industry. Private and foreign companies, which have built wind and gas-fired generating plants, would have been allowed to keep up to 46% of the market. The ruling party and its allies need a two-thirds majority to pass the constitutional reform.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s white-haired, folksy president, is telling voters to go to the polls April 10 and decide whether he should resign instead of serving until 2024, when his single six-year term will end. The populist leader has a history of using referendums as a tool to energize his working class base, but this will be the first time he’s turned the question on himself.

A presidential recall referendum will be held on April 10, where Mexicans will be asked if they want the president to continue in office until 2024 or resign. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) (Fernando Llano)MEXICO CITY — (AP) — Mexicans vote Sunday on whether their popular president should end his six-year term barely midway through or continue to the end. Strangely, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was the one who pushed for the first-ever referendum of its kind in Mexico. The referendum is only binding if at least 40% of the country’s electorate votes — something experts believe unlikely — and López Obrador has maintained approval ratings around 60%. The referendum fueled a feud between López Obrador and Mexico’s respected elections authority.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s white-haired, folksy president, is telling voters to go to the polls April 10 and decide whether he should resign instead of serving until 2024, when his single six-year term will end. The populist leader has a history of using referendums as a tool to energize his working class base, but this will be the first time he’s turned the question on himself.

On April 10, a presidential recall referendum will be held to revalidate his administration after three years in office. Mexicans will be asked if they want the president to continue in office until 2024 or resign. For one thing, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador himself demanded it. And third, there’s little chance López Obrador could lose, with current approval ratings of around 60%. While some opposition groups have called on people to boycott the vote, some opponents want to actually try to win, and say people should turn out and vote to recall the president.

For the first time in history, Mexicans will vote Sunday on whether their president should finish out the rest of his term.

Video posted on social media showed people running down the beach as gunshots rang out as others took cover behind tables or chairs.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has now essentially given up on his quixotic bid to sell off the presidential jet, and will rent it out for weddings or coming-of-age parties.

Mexico Felipe Angeles Airport Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during his daily morning press conference before officially inaugurating the Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) north of Mexico City, Monday, March 21, 2022. López Obrador angrily rejected the calls Wednesday and called them “fake environmentalists.”“They convince or they hire performers, fake environmentalists who supposedly are defending the environment, and they start a campaign against the train,” López Obrador said. López Obrador views the so-called “Maya train” project as a priority of his administration. López Obrador originally planned to build an elevated train over an existing highway. The president has routinely placed his building plans above environmental concerns.

Mexico Felipe Angeles Airport Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stands during his daily, morning press conference at the inauguration event for the Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA), north of Mexico City, Monday, March 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) (Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY — (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated a new Mexico City airport on Monday, one of his four hallmark building projects. Only one “international” flight will use the airport, a flight to Caracas, Venezuela, operated by a Venezuelan carrier that is under U.S. sanctions. The Felipe Angeles Mexico City airport reflects the contrasts and contradictions of López Obrador's administration. At the Felipe Angeles terminal, they will only be required to show up one or two hours before those flights.

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Mexico’s plan to favor its own state-owned electrical power plants and limit energy sales by private, foreign-built projects could affect U.S. investment in Mexico, officials said during bilateral talks this week. “In each meeting, we expressly conveyed the Biden-Harris Administration’s real concerns with the potential negative impact of Mexico’s proposed energy reforms on U.S. private investment in Mexico,” according to a statement by U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. The bill that López Obrador submitted in October would cancel contracts under which 34 private plants sell power into the national grid. The plan would also declare “illegal” an additional 239 private plants that sell energy directly to corporate clients in Mexico. The measure also would cancel many long-term energy supply contracts and clean-energy preferential buying programs, often affecting foreign companies.

Virus Outbreak Mexico FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris in her office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in Washington. President Lopez Obrador announced on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, that he has come down with COVID-19 a second time, as coronavirus infections spike in Mexico and virus tests become scarce. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (Alex Brandon)MEXICO CITY — (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador returned to his morning news conference Monday following a week of isolation for his second coronavirus infection. “It is demonstrable that this variant does not have the same seriousness as the earlier, the delta,” López Obrador said. “In symptoms and also in recuperation time.”López Obrador was infected the first time in January of last year.

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (Alex Brandon)MEXICO CITY — (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday he hopes Mexican investors buy the local subsidiary of Citigroup. One, retail and banking magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego, wrote in his Twitter account he was weighing a bid for the bank. Salinas Pliego already runs the smaller Banco Azteca. “I have always believed in and invested in Mexico and Mexicans,” Salinas Pliego wrote. But many doubt Salinas Pliego could raise the $12 billion to $15 billion that analysts think Citibanamex might cost.

New footage purportedly shows a major Mexican cartel dropping bombs on rival camps with a drone — marking the latest instance of instability and violence in the region from a cartel that officials say has been growing rapidly.

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (Alex Brandon)MEXICO CITY — (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday he was hoarse and had a sore throat after testing positive for COVID-19 for the second time. Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer said López Obrador could return to the briefings as early as next week. In 2021, López Obrador returned to his daily news briefings in February after a two-week absence when he caught coronavirus in January. At the time, López Obrador revealed he received experimental treatments, which he described only as an “antiviral” medication and an anti-inflammatory drug. In the U.S., where the omicron wave hit before it did in Mexico, COVID-19 deaths have again started to rise.

The exact location of the plant in southeastern Mexico has yet to be announced.

Once able to rely on larger-than-life finance ministers, the region’s business leaders now need to make the public case for free markets via retail politics.