Latest Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador News

Venezuelans are increasingly stuck in Mexico, explaining drop in illegal crossings to US

Mar. 28, 2024 00:27 AM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Venezuelan migrants often have a quick answer when asked to name the most difficult stretch of their eight-country journey to the U.S. border, and it's not the dayslong jungle trek through Colombia and Panama with its venomous vipers, giant spiders and scorpions. It's Mexico. ...

Mexico's president says he won't fight drug cartels on US orders, calls it a 'Mexico First' policy

Mar. 22, 2024 17:14 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Friday he won’t fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs. Over the years, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has laid out various justifications for his...

How Texas' plan to arrest and deport migrants for illegal entry would work

Mar. 20, 2024 18:11 PM EDT

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A Texas law that would allow the state to arrest and deport people who enter the U.S. illegally is on hold for now while a federal appeals court considers it. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit...

Mexican president praises Pancho Villa for his 1916 attack on Columbus, New Mexico, that killed 18

Mar. 19, 2024 21:09 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Tuesday praised Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa for his 1916 attack on Columbus, New Mexico, a raid that killed 18 Americans, mostly civilians. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called the attack “daring” and...

Hats, T-shirts and dolls reflect outgoing Mexican president's outsized presence in upcoming election

Mar. 19, 2024 20:36 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Souvenirs bearing the image of 70-year-old Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sell like T-shirts at a Taylor Swift concert. Just outside of Mexico’s presidential palace, throngs of mostly Mexicans crowd around a booth selling plush talking dolls,...

Another mayoral hopeful is killed in southern Mexico, one of a half-dozen murdered this year

Mar. 13, 2024 17:12 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in southern Mexico said Wednesday that a mayoral candidate was killed in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, one of a half-dozen local politicians murdered so far this year ahead of the June 2 national elections. Tomás Morales was hoping to become...

Mexican journalist says he was abducted, beaten and questioned by armed men about his reporting

Mar. 13, 2024 12:27 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A prominent journalist who went missing this week in western Mexico said Wednesday he was abducted, beaten and questioned by an armed gang about his reporting before being let go with a warning to tone down his journalism. Authorities confirmed that radio and...

Mexico's presidential candidates sign commitment for peace with church leaders concerned by violence

Mar. 13, 2024 01:58 AM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s presidential candidates on Monday signed a commitment for peace with Catholic Church leaders that proposes strategies to reduce the violence in the country. During the meeting led by the Episcopal Conference of Mexico, presidential front-runner and...

2 detectives found safe after disappearing while looking into Mexico's 2014 case of missing students

Mar. 13, 2024 01:47 AM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two federal detectives have been found unharmed after they went missing in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Guerrero while investigating the disappearances of 43 students almost 10 years ago. Officials did not say Tuesday how the man and woman were found or...

Mexican journalist abducted by armed men in violent western state

Mar. 12, 2024 14:01 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A prominent journalist in western Mexico was abducted by armed men and has not been seen since, prosecutors said Tuesday. The fate of radio and television anchor Jaime Barrera gained national attention in part because his daughter, Itzul Barrera, sits on the...