Tag: Mexico

• Saturday, February 18th 2023 - 10:04 UTC

  AMLO not handing over Andean presidency to “undemocratic” Peru

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced he would not be handing over the pro-tempore presidency of the Pacific Alliance to Peru on the grounds that Pedro Castillo Terrones' impeachment has been “undemocratic,” it was reported Friday.

• Saturday, January 7th 2023 - 11:24 UTC

  Chapito Guzmán not to be deported for now

  

  A Mexican judge Friday agreed to Ovidio Guzmán's request not to be extradited to the United States.

• Friday, January 6th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  Chapo Guzmán's son arrested in Mexico

  

  Mexican authorities have arrested Ovidio Guzmán, also known as “El Ratón,” for allegedly trafficking fentanyl and other drugs. He is the son of former drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who is currently incarcerated in the United States.

• Monday, January 2nd 2023 - 09:40 UTC

  Commando group storms Mexican prison; 14 dead, 24 escape

  

  At least 10 prison guards have been killed on New Year's Eve during a shootout as over twenty inmates escaped the Social Rehabilitation Center (Cereso) 3 in Ciudad Juarez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Four detainees were also reported to have died in the riot.

• Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Mexico, AMLO’s False Promises and waiting for the next president

  

  By Jorge G. Castañeda, NEW YORK – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has reached the beginning of the end. AMLO, as he is widely known, was inaugurated on December 1, 2018, having promised to improve Mexico’s economy, reduce poverty and inequality, and tackle corruption and violence, all while strengthening the country’s infant democracy, and will leave office on September 30, 2024. With his term more over than not, most of what he was going to achieve has already been achieved – and it’s not much.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2022 - 20:25 UTC

  AMLO still calls Castillo “President” and insists “will of the people” must be respected

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Tuesday replied to the objections raised by Peru's Foreign Ministry to his comments regarding the ongoing political crisis in the South American Country.

• Thursday, December 8th 2022 - 17:15 UTC

  New Mexico set to overtake Mexico's crude oil production this month

  

  The state of New Mexico is expected to overtake Mexico’s crude oil production in the current month, according to commodity analysts projected report at Standard Chartered.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  AMLO's Plan B triggered to reform Mexico's electoral system

  

  Mexico's opposition has given the thumbs down to the electoral reform promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) who sought to cut down the red tape and add transparency to the voting process.

• Monday, November 28th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  With no reelection possible, Mexican president begins preparing his party to continue ruling

  

  The debate on amendments to the electoral legislation and electoral authority in Mexico, sponsored by president Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador and strongly criticized by the opposition has led to an unprecedented dispute on the streets of Mexico City.

• Saturday, November 26th 2022 - 10:51 UTC

  Colombia: Mexico agrees to join as guarantor of peace talks with ELN

  

  President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Friday told his Colombian colleague Gustavo Petro that Mexico had accepted the invitation to join as guarantor of the peace talks between the South American country's administration and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas.