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(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.

A group of Mexican singers, actors and environmentalists have issued a public protest against plans to cut down low jungle between Cancun and Tulum to build a tourist train line.

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.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has inaugurated a new Mexico City airport, one of his four hallmark building projects.

Another journalist was shot to death in Mexico, the eighth murdered so far this year in an unprecedented spate of killings that has made Mexico the most dangerous place in the world for the press.

Republican infighting is threatening to topple the party's strategy to regain control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections. CBS News political reporter Caitlin Huey-burns joined Vladimir Duthiers and Lana Zak with more.

Department of Defense press secretary John Kirby says Russian president Vladimir Putin could order an attack on Ukraine "with little or no warning." As the U.S. prepares for potential conflict, the White House says diplomacy is still on the table. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin joined CBS News' "Red and Blue" with the latest.

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.

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.

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.

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has returned to his morning news conference following a week of isolation for his second coronavirus infection.

(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.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he hopes Mexican investors buy the local subsidiary of Citigroup.

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.

Mexico's president has announced he has come down with COVID-19 a second time, as coronavirus infections spike in Mexico and virus tests become scarce.

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.

Activists warn restoring 'Remain in Mexico' at the border will result in "torture, rape, and death".

Officials from Mexico and the United States are developing a new framework for their governments’ security relationship that is more “holistic” in addressing crime and will tackle a broader range of issues than the previous initiative.

But that law was passed in 2019, and the scientists got the $2.5 million years earlier when it was apparently legal. A judge at the Altiplano prison denied prosecutors’ request for arrest warrants against the academics Wednesday. But the whole episode lent heft to accusations that López Obrador’s government has sought to politicize academic life in Mexico. Gertz Manero's office defended the charges Wednesday, saying the academics “used federal funds meant for scientific research on a private organization, buying furniture, vehicles, properties, and paying salaries and other services.”The office said it would re-file the charges. “Western science has produced the most splashy, and perhaps most useless advances, like reaching the Moon," Álvarez-Buylla said in 2020.

Mexico has so many criminals to deal with that critics are openly wondering why the government has sought to lock up 31 academics, professors and researchers in the country's top maximum security prison.

Whether or not Saturday’s meeting in Mexico City of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC, culminates in a rumored mass exodus from the Organization American States, Mexico has signaled that it wants a leadership role in Latin America after years of focusing almost exclusively on its bilateral relationship with the U.S. Mexico was the organization’s president last year and its membership voted that Mexico continue in that role this year. Unlike the OAS, the United States and Canada are not members, nor is Brazil, which withdrew in January 2020. Along with its vaccine efforts in the region, Mexico has recently hosted a new round of dialogue between the Venezuelan government and that country’s opposition in Mexico City. Ana Vanessa Cárdenas Zanatta, a political science professor at Monterrey Technological and Anahuac universities in Mexico City, said on one hand, Mexico’s move to take a greater role in Latin America is positive.

A gathering of leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean here this weekend is the latest sign of Mexico flexing its diplomatic muscle as it looks to assert itself as the new mediator between the region and the United States.

Mexico Cuba Cuba's Miguel Diaz-Canel, center, accompanies Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, during Independence Day celebrations in the Zocalo in Mexico City, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) (Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY — (AP) — The big highlight of Mexico’s Independence Day Thursday was the visit by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador welcomed the Cuban leader on the reviewing platform for Mexico’s annual Sept. 16 military parade. López Obrador called on the United States to end the economic blockade of Cuba. “Hopefully President (Joe) Biden has enough political sensitivity to act with greatness and put an end to the political attacks on Cuba," López Obrador said.

The mayor of Acapulco, Adela Román, said there was no major damage, but the 7.1 magnitude temblor rattled buildings hundreds of miles away in the capital.

(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) (Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY — (AP) — Mexico has faced immigration pressures from the north, south and within its own borders in recent weeks, putting it in an increasingly difficult position. Tapachula’s shelters are full, leaving many asylum seekers to live in unsanitary conditions while they wait. MEXICO'S NORTHERN BORDERConcern has been growing in northern Mexico since the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the restart of the controversial program that made asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases are processed. On the ground, asylum seekers trying to enter the U.S. have been frozen out. Shelters in northern Mexico fear they could soon be overwhelmed again by returned asylum seekers.

Mexico is facing immigration pressures from the north, south and within its own borders, putting it in an increasingly difficult position.

Pictures of the Week Latin America and Caribbean Photo Gallery Immigration agents detains a Haitian migrant and his son as they walked along a highway in Escuintla, Chiapas state, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador expressed frustration with a strategy of containing migrants in the south on Thursday and said he would write to U.S. President Joe Biden to insist that country contribute to his favorite development projects in the region. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) (Marco Ugarte)

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Mexico President Protest FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2021 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a military parade introducing the new army commander in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File) (Fernando Llano)MEXICO CITY — (AP) — The SUV carrying Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was stopped and surrounded by a radical teachers’ group Friday, preventing him from leading his usual daily morning news conference. But López Obrador also stressed that the incident was an example of his policy of non-violence and avoiding the use of force. “This is what (Nelson) Mandela did, this is what (Martin) Luther King did, this is what (Mahatma) Gandhi did, non-violence,” López Obrador said. By Friday, even López Obrador admitted that the union leadership in some states had gone bad.

The SUV carrying Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was stopped and surrounded by a radical teachers' group, preventing him from leading his usual daily morning news conference.

It also notched its third-highest daily number of new COVID-19 cases as the highly contagious delta variant overwhelms many hospitals. On Thursday, Beshear reported new record highs in Kentucky, with 2,115 virus patients hospitalized, including 590 in intensive care and 345 on ventilators. ___MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:— U.S. may reach 100,000 more COVID-19 deaths by Dec. 1. In November, the hospitals counted 987 virus patients, accounting for 32% of hospitalizations. ___MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tennessee’s most populous county has reached the highest number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients since the start of the pandemic.

Sanders’ death came days after the state reported the death of an infant. Children under 18 made up about 30% of cases reported Thursday in Louisiana. The two states on Wednesday reported the most COVID-19 patients in their hospitals since the start of the pandemic. ___MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tennessee’s most populous county has reached the highest number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients since the start of the pandemic. The move comes as Texas reported the most COVID-19 patients in its hospitals since the start of the pandemic.

Mexico will ask the United States to send at least 3.5 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccine as the country faces a third wave of infections, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) (Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY — (AP) — The United States will send Mexico 8.5 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccine as the delta variant drives the country’s third wave of infections, Mexican officials said Tuesday. “With this velocity that we are seeing, the risk of saturation of the hospitals is very high.”Mexico has received 91.2 million doses of five different vaccines, about 73 million of which have been applied. In June, the U.S. government sent Mexico more than 1.3 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine following a visit by Harris to the country. __Associated Press journalist Alexis Triboulard in Mexico City contributed to this report.

The United States will send Mexico 8.5 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccine as the delta variant drives the country’s third wave of infections.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in a planned phone call on Monday with Vice President Kamala Harris he would urge the United States to reopen the two countries' shared southern border "completely."

Human rights and press freedom activists are up in arms about a new report on NSO Group, the notorious Israeli hacker-for-hire company.

The video is the second video showing a brother of the president accepting large amounts of money

Mexico President Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said evidence indicated that 15 of the victims were innocent bystanders. The other four dead were suspected gunmen from a group that drove into the northern border city of Reynosa and opened fire indiscriminately. “Everything indicates that it was not a confrontation, but rather a commando that shot people who were not involved in any conflict," López Obrador said. But those disputes usually target rival gunmen or security forces.

Mexico's president is vowing to investigate the border shootings that left 19 dead.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said meetings on the migration crisis with Kamala Harris went so well that he called her "president."

Vice President Kamala Harris closes out her first foreign trip Tuesday in Mexico. She'll meet with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a key but complicated ally in the Biden administration’s efforts to curb migration at the U.S. border. (June 8)

Guatemala Harris Latin America Vice President Kamala Harris and Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, pose for an official photograph, Monday, June 7, 2021, at the National Palace in Guatemala City. But on Tuesday, her meeting with Lopez Obrador isn’t expected to deliver as many concrete commitments. Harris will spend the rest of the day meeting with female entrepreneurs and labor leaders in the nation. Still, while aides say corruption was a central focus of her meeting with Giammattei, it’s unclear whether she’ll raise the issue with Lopez Obrador. Mexico agreed to take back its own citizens under Title 42 authorities, as well as people from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

Vice President Kamala Harris is telling the poor and threatened populations of Latin America that the United States has “the capacity to give people a sense of hope” in the region so they can make better lives without fleeing to the U.S. Harris closed her first foreign trip as vice president unapologetic for her decision not to visit the U.S.-Mexico border as part of her mission to address migration to the U.S. She said her meetings with leaders and others in Guatemala and Mexico were vital...

Vice President Kamala Harris is closing out her first foreign trip Tuesday with a visit to Mexico and a meeting with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a key but complicated ally in the Biden administration’s efforts to curb the spike in migration at the U.S. border. While Lopez Obrador committed in a previous virtual meeting with Harris that the U.S. can “count on us” to help address the issue of irregular migration, the Mexican president has in the past blamed President Joe Biden for the increase in migration at the border.

Mexico Elections Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador thumbs up after voting in congressional, state and local elections in Mexico City, Sunday, June 6, 2021. It would also deprive the president of a qualified majority of two-thirds required to approve constitutional reforms. López Obrador appeared to acknowledge that new reality Monday. The opposition alliance made up of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, National Action Party and Party of the Democratic Revolution were estimated to win between 181 and 213 seats. But the president's party was battered in Mexico City, long considered his stronghold and where he once served as mayor.

Mexico Elections Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador thumbs up after voting in congressional, state and local elections in Mexico City, Sunday, June 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) (Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY — (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s party and allies appear poised to maintain their majority in Mexico's lower chamber of the congress, according to initial results. López Obrador's critics had depicted the elections as a chance to stop the still-popular president from concentrating more power and weakening checks and balances. The president said the opposition is dominated by conservatives who oppose his campaign against corruption and wasteful spending. Mexico City housewife Dolores Martinez said she was pleased with López Obrador's anti-corruption fight, after decades of corrupt administrations.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s party and its allies appeared poised to maintain their majority in Mexico’s lower chamber of the congress.

Mexicans are awaiting results after voting for the entire lower house of Congress, almost half the country's governors and most mayors.

The good news about Latin America is that the region’s economy will rebound much faster than expected, mainly because of a sharp rise in U.S. and Chinese imports. The bad news is that the region’s politics will most likely ruin the recovery.

It’s routine preparation for a campaign stop for Guillermo Valencia, who's running for mayor in Morelia, capital of the troubled Mexican state of Michoacan.

Mexico will says it will buy Shell's 50% share in the jointly owned Deer Park refinery near Houston.

"Mexico is now overwhelmed and out of capacity," a Catholic priest in southwest Mexico told Insider.

Mexico's president has presented an apology for a 1911 massacre in which over 300 Chinese people were slaughtered by troops and residents in the northern city of Torreón.

US Mexico Harris Obrador Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a virtual meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington on Friday, May 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Manuel Balce Ceneta)MEXICO CITY — (AP) — Just before an online meeting with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris Friday, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador very publicly accused the U.S. government of violating Mexico's sovereignty. The issue apparently didn't arise in the meeting with Harris: “It's not on the agenda and it's not our intention to create a bad atmosphere," López Obrador said ahead of the talks. “We are going to help” on immigration, López Obrador told Harris. A U.S. State Department spokesman said Friday: “As the Vice President said today, Mexico is our closest neighbor.

Hawaii officials are moving forward with a plan to allow people who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus to skip pre-travel testing and quarantine requirements for flights between islands.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has defended the 2013 ruling that freed one of the drug lords most wanted by U.S. authorities, even though Mexico’s Supreme Court later ruled it was a mistake.

(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s elections agency has withdrawn ballot registration for a ruling-party state candidate who was nominated despite accusations of rape against him. The decision drew the wrath Friday of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has defended candidate Félix Salgado and criticized women's groups who objected to his candidacy. “This is an attack on democracy,” Lopez Obrador said, saying that “high powered, mafia interests” wanted Salgado disqualified as candidate for the governorship of southern Guerrero state. Salgado was chosen as candidate by a poll of Morena party members despite nationwide protests over the fact two women accused him of rape. AdFormer Guerrero state prosecutor Xavier Olea told The Associated Press that the current governor of Guerrero, Hector Astudillo, ordered him in 2017 not to investigate one of the rape accusations against Salgado, though Astudillo has denied that.

Thousands of women marched in Mexico City Monday to mark Women’s Day, focusing the spotlight on López Obrador’s contradictions. “He should start really fighting, but for the women of Mexico,” said marcher Ana De la Toba, a 39-year old Mexico City lawyer. “Half of the cabinet are women,” López Obrador said at his daily morning news conference. Attention focused on the barricades erected in fronts of the colonial-era National Palace where López Obrador lives and works. “The barricades were put up because the conservatives are very upset,” López Obrador said.

Also pictured is Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second from right, and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, third from right. Among Biden’s 23 nominees with Cabinet rank, just 13 have been confirmed by the Senate, or a little over half. On Tuesday, Biden's Cabinet was thrown into further uncertainty when his nominee to lead the White House budget office, Neera Tanden, withdrew from consideration after her nomination faced opposition from key senators on both sides of the aisle. That must change.”The Biden administration has prioritized confirming those nominees who are key to national security, the economy and public health decisions. The Biden administration has not been completely hamstrung by the slow pace of confirmations, however.

Also pictured is Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second from right, and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, third from right. Among Biden’s 23 nominees with Cabinet rank, just 13 have been confirmed by the Senate, or a little over half. On Tuesday, Biden's cabinet was thrown into further uncertainty when his nominee to lead the White House budget office, Neera Tanden, withdrew from consideration after her nomination faced opposition from key senators on both sides of the aisle. That must change.”The Biden administration has prioritized confirming those nominees who are key to national security, the economy and public health decisions. The Biden administration has not been completely hamstrung by the slow pace of confirmations, however.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference known as "La Maanera" at the National Palace in Mexico City, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. It is not the first time that López Obrador's casual attitude toward his personal security has raised concern. López Obrador, who enjoys pressing the flesh in crowds of supporters but has not been able to do so during the coronavirus pandemic, downplayed the incident. López Obrador also downplayed that incident. Soon after he was elected in 2018, López Obrador said: “The people will protect me.”

– As President Joe Biden looks to dismantle the last administration’s hardline immigration agenda, he worked Monday to build a partnership with someone who found an unexpected understanding with Donald Trump: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Biden and López Obrador met for a virtual bilateral meeting, with immigration, the coronavirus pandemic and climate issues on the agenda. “We haven’t been perfect neighbors to each other,” Biden acknowledged in brief remarks at the start of his video conference meeting with the Mexican president. Ahead of the meeting, White House officials reiterated that Biden remained focused on first vaccinating U.S. citizens before turning his attention to assisting other nations. Early in his term, the Mexican president pursued a counter-narcotics strategy that largely ended the pursuit of high-profile arrests and focused more on poverty alleviation.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second from right, speaks during a virtual meeting at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, with Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau who is in Ottawa, Canada. But they were geographically far apart Friday as Secretary of State Antony Blinken, because of the pandemic, started a new chapter in North American relations with virtual visits to Mexico and Canada in what was billed as his first official trip. “The United States has long-standing relationships with both Mexico and Canada," Blinken said afterward. The secretary began his virtual visits with Mexico, a country Trump repeatedly disparaged in his campaign and early in his presidency, though relations turned more cordial under López Obrador. AdBiden last week made his first bilateral meeting, also virtual, with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who at times had a frosty relationship with Trump.

Lpez Obradors quixotic bid to sell off the presidential jet has now stretched into its third year in 2021, with no sign of a buyer in sight. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s quixotic bid to sell off the presidential jet has now stretched into its third year, with no sign of a buyer in sight. Ever since he took office on Dec. 1, 2018, the president has vowed to sell off the plane because it is too luxurious. But on Wednesday he acknowledged the jet is hard to sell because it is too specialized and made-to-order. Experts say it would be costly to reconfigure into a typical passenger jet that would carry up to 300 passengers.

López Obrador appeared “with resolute spirit, working and looking good,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, who is also isolating and awaiting test results, said on Twitter. On Monday, the WHO chief said via Twitter: “I am sorry to hear that you have tested positive for #COVID19, President @lopezobrador— . Stay strong!”At the start of the pandemic López Obrador was criticized for leaning into crowds and giving hugs. López Obrador is known to be stubborn and more often doubles down on a position rather than retreat in the face of criticism. ___Associated Press video journalist Lissette Romero and AP writer Mark Stevenson in Mexico City and writer Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this report.

Mexico President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is under medical treatment, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday he has tested positive for COVID-19 and that the symptoms are mild. Early in the pandemic, asked how he was protecting Mexico, López Obrador removed two religious amulets from his wallet and proudly showed them off. At the start of the pandemic López Obrador was criticized for still leaning into crowds and giving hugs. Besides López Obrador, other Latin American leaders who have tested positive for the coronavirus are Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, Guatemala’s Alejandro Giammattei, Honduras’ Juan Orlando Hernández and Bolivia’s then-interim President Jeanine Ánéz.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference known as "La Maanera" at the National Palace in Mexico City, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Also in Mexico City, Amalia Meléndrez tunes in after her morning bath. López Obrador, 67, has never once left the stage, or even sat down, when others are speaking. In the morning talks, López Obrador has shown off the amulets he claims protect him from evil and the coronavirus. “The president made it clear that he had to take this head-on,” said the president’s press representative, Jesús Ramírez.

(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday the army will run the Maya train project and several airports, and use any profits to finance military pensions. But López Obrador said Sunday that “so there won’t be the temptation to privatize” the $6.8 billion project, the army will operate it once built. López Obrador has already given the army more tasks than any other recent Mexican president, with military personnel doing everything from building airports to transporting medicine and running tree nurseries. López Obrador said the army is among the most trustworthy and honest institutions in the country. In July, López Obrador inaugurated the start of construction on the train, a pet project of his that would run some 950 miles (about 1,500 kilometers) in a rough loop around Yucatan.

The moves came a day after electors nationwide formally cast votes affirming Biden's victory in last month's presidential election. As Republicans began discussing a Biden presidency more openly on Tuesday, Trump still pledged to press forward with almost nonexistent legal options. There has never been anything like this in our Country!” Trump tweeted just as members of his party were publicly recognizing Biden's victory. The Electoral College has spoken.”The bureaucratic transition from Trump's government to Biden’s actually began weeks ago, despite the president’s legal challenges. Unless Democrats win both those races, Senate Republicans will have the power to block many of Biden's Cabinet nominations, not to mention thwart his policy initiatives.

The moves come a day after electors nationwide formally cast votes affirming Biden's victory in last month's presidential election. As Republicans began discussing a Biden presidency more openly on Tuesday, Trump still pledged to press forward with almost nonexistent legal options. There has never been anything like this in our Country!” Trump tweeted just as members of his party were publicly recognizing Biden's victory. The normally humdrum political ceremony didn’t change the facts of the election, but was nonetheless used as political cover by leading Republicans. Unless Democrats win both those races, Senate Republicans will have the power to block many of Biden's Cabinet nominations, not to mention thwart his policy initiatives.

Other leaders who supported Trump, including President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, congratulated Biden, indicating they rejected Trump’s claim the election wasn’t over. Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia told reporters he looked forward to a “great partnership” with Washington. Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan said he looked forward to working together to end illegal tax havens and on peacemaking in Afghanistan. Others expressed hope Biden will help to heal divisions in American society and global politics. Prime Minister Janez Jansa was the only leader who congratulated Trump even before all votes were counted and showed support after Biden’s win was announced.

In this court artist sketch, former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda's appears in federal court, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020 in Los Angeles. SAN DIEGO – A judge denied bail to Mexico's former defense secretary on Tuesday on charges of helping a Mexican cartel smuggle drugs to the United States in exchange for bribes, casting aside an argument that the retired general wouldn't flee because he was determined to exonerate himself. Lyons said the retired general could post up to $750,000 bail, calling it his life savings. The judge said he wouldn't order a transfer until Friday to allow the retired general time to meet with a Mexican attorney who traveled to Los Angeles. He could face a mandatory sentence of at least 10 years in prison if convicted on the conspiracy charges.

The head of the U.N. agency charged with promoting gender equality said there has been progress, but not enough and too slow. In Africa and Asia, she said, there are governments “that have not felt any pressure” to move forward on gender equality. When the United Nations was founded in 1945 on the ashes of World War II, Mlambo-Ngcuka said, not a single woman was a head of state or government. Among the countries unable to give their speeches were the United States, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, Russia, Lebanon, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan. DeVos praised the “incredible gains” for American women since the Beijing conference and denounced “evil regimes” elsewhere that deny women’s rights and freedoms, singling out Venezuela, Cuba, Iran and “the worst violator of all,” China.

(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)MEXICO CITY – Mexico has issued 25 arrest warrants for those who carried out and knew about the abduction of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014, including for the first time members of the military and federal police, the Attorney General’s Office announced Saturday. Included among those being sought are also current and former members of the Attorney General’s Office. Pursuing soldiers is a significant move, especially considering President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s coziness with the armed forces. The highest-ranking fugitive in the case is Tomás Zeron, who at the time of the abduction was the head of the federal investigation agency. Gertz Manero said that in addition to Zeron’s alleged crimes connected to the case, he also allegedly stole more than $44 million from the Attorney General’s Office budget.

Paleontologists work to preserve the skeleton of a mammoth that was discovered at the construction site of Mexico Citys new airport in the Santa Lucia military base, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY The number of mammoth skeletons recovered at an airport construction site north of Mexico City has risen to at least 200, with a large number still to be excavated, experts said Thursday. Paleontologist Joaquin Arroyo Cabrales said the airport site will be a very important site to test hypotheses about the mass extinction of mammoths. There needs to be a means for them to be buried rapidly and experience low oxygen levels.The site near Mexico City now appears to have outstripped the Mammoth Site at Hot Springs South Dakota which has about 61 sets of remains as the world's largest find of mammoth bones. For now, the mammoths seem to be everywhere at the site and the finds may slow down, but not stop, work on the new airport.

In his second state-of-the-union address Tuesday, Lpez Obrador emphasized what he considers his major achievements: the fight against corruption and his governments austerity. But Mexicos teflon president no longer has the near sky-high approval ratings he once had and his honeymoon appears to be over. According to a Reforma newspaper poll published Monday, Lpez Obrador has a 56% approval rating; still a fairly high figure but down from a peak of 78% in March 2019. Mexico's president clearly hopes his main legacy will be going after corrupt politicians who stole hundreds of millions of dollars in past administrations. Lpez Obrador has already given signs of that.

Press photographers cover Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arriving for a press conference in front of the former presidential plane at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City, Monday, July 27, 2020. The president, who only flies commercial as one measure in his austerity government, has been trying to sell the plane since he took office. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY Efforts to sell Mexicos presidential jet appear to be going well, but a simultaneous effort to sell lottery tickets depicting the plane is struggling. With the Sept. 15 lottery drawing less than a month away, Lpez Obrador is facing the possibility the lottery might actually lose money, rather than achieving its stated goal of collecting funds to buy medical equipment. With only about 1.5 million tickets sold, the lottery currently is covering only about 38% of the guaranteed prize money of $90 million. The jet, like the lottery, is full of symbolism for Lpez Obrador, who has refused to even step foot into the Boeing Dreamliner since he took office in December 2018. Originally, he vowed to raffle off the plane, which drew jokes about where the winner would park the jet.

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City, Monday, July 13, 2020. If a mask was an option for the economys reactivation, Id put one on immediately, Lpez Obrador said Wednesday. At age 66, Lpez Obrador also falls into an at-risk group of people who should wear masks. On Wednesday, Herrera was sitting behind Lpez Obrador when he spoke and he asked the president to let him clarify his comments from the day before. Trump tweeted a photo of himself wearing a mask Monday and yesterday conceded that they had an impact.

FILE - In this April 5, 2020 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City. Industry associations said it will affect 28 solar and wind projects that were ready to go online, and 16 more under construction, with a total of $6.4 billion in investments, much of it from foreign firms. Mexico also has been slow to build supplementary plants for the times when wind or sun power naturally decreases. But the situation really hit crisis levels when the pandemic caused a huge drop in electricity demand as factories closed. There was literally nowhere for the fuel oil to go if the state-run plants didn't burn it, and no money to subsidize the unused power plants.

Some Mexican auto factories are due to open as soon as Monday, in line with large U.S. assembly plants for the Detroit automakers. Despite President Donald Trump's "America First" policies, the U.S. auto industry heavily relies on Mexico for parts and vehicle production. Mexico, unlike many U.S. states, had not given direction on when auto manufacturing would be allowed to restart as the county's coronavirus cases have continued to rise. It's something auto industry executives have been closely watching as they reopen American factories. Prior to the reopening report, Fred Hubacker, a managing partner of consulting firm Conway MacKenzie, called Mexico a "wild card" in the restart of the U.S. auto industry.