Tag: Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)

• Thursday, August 15th 2024 - 20:56 UTC

  AMLO not endorsing Lula's new elections plan

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Thursday that he did not share his Brazilian colleague Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's idea that Venezuela should hold fresh elections to get out of the current crisis.

• Monday, August 12th 2024 - 06:43 UTC

  Virtual Summit featuring Maduro, Lula, Petro, and AMLO being arranged

  

  According to Colombia's Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo, a virtual summit bringing together Presidents Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil), Gustavo Petro (Colombia), and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO - Mexico) has been agreed upon to discuss the crisis triggered by the July 28 elections which both the ruling party and the opposition in Caracas claim to have won.

• Tuesday, June 4th 2024 - 11:59 UTC

  Mexico has elected its first female president, but has behind a very powerful mentor

  

  By Luis Romero Gómez (*) -On October 17, 1953, constitutional reform granted women the right to vote in Mexico, and two years later, women cast votes in a federal election. Now, nearly 70 years later, Mexico has elected a woman president for the first time, according to Sunday's election results.

• Monday, April 29th 2024 - 21:38 UTC

  ICJ: Now Ecuador files case against Mexico

  

  Ecuador's conservative government of President Danie Noboa Monday filed a case against Mexico before the International Cout of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague (The Netherlands) for granting asylum to a fugitive at the Embassy in Quito. Former Ecuadorean Vice President Jorge Glas, who had been sentenced to 8 years in jail for corruption, had sheltered at the mission until local authorities stormed it in disregard of all international conventions on diplomatic immunity and arrested him.

• Wednesday, November 10th 2021 - 20:31 UTC

  Biden, AMLO and Trudeau to meet Nov. 18 in Washington

  

  US President Joseph Biden, his Mexican colleague Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will get together Nov. 18 in Washington DC for the North American Leaders Summit, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced Wednesday.

• Monday, July 26th 2021 - 09:17 UTC

  Mexico favors creation of new body to replace OAS

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has launched the idea to create a new body that would replace the current Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS).

• Sunday, September 22nd 2019 - 19:45 UTC

  AMLO eyes referendum to legalise drugs in Mexico for medical purposes

  

  Mexico's leftwing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took a challenging stance towards traditional medicine and admitted a referendum about legalising some drugs for treatment purposes was likely.