Latest Mexico government News

As migrants overwhelm a Texas border city, others wait in Mexico for appointments to enter the US

Sep. 22, 2023 23:23 PM EDT

EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Waiting three weeks and counting to cross into Texas, Lila sat in a shelter on the Mexico border Friday feeling trapped: The cartels make it too dangerous to turn around and the U.S. government offers no guarantees if she keeps going. “They don’t ask...

Mexican president wants to meet with Biden in Washington on migration, drug trafficking

Sep. 22, 2023 19:13 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s top diplomat, Alicia Bárcena, said Friday that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to travel to Washington D.C. in early November to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden about immigration, development aid and drug trafficking. The statement...

Mexico president says he'll skip APEC summit in November in San Francisco

Sep. 21, 2023 14:19 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said on Thursday that he will skip the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in November in San Francisco because his country “has no relations” with Peru. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has claimed previously that Peru’s...

Mexican railway operator halts trains because so many migrants are climbing aboard and getting hurt

Sep. 19, 2023 22:30 PM EDT

HUEHUETOCA, Mexico (AP) — A Mexican railway operator announced Tuesday it is temporarily suspending train runs in the northern part of the country because so many migrants are climbing aboard freight cars and getting hurt in the process. Ferromex said it has temporarily ordered a...

Mexican president defends inclusion of Russian military contingent in Independence parade

Sep. 18, 2023 13:13 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Monday defended the participation of a contingent of Russian soldiers in a military parade over the weekend. The presence of the Russian contingent in the Independence parade Saturday drew criticism because of Russia’s invasion of...

US: Mexico extradites Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Sinaloa cartel leader 'El Chapo,' to United States

Sep. 15, 2023 21:57 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico extradited Ovidio Guzmán López, a son of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, to the United States on Friday to face drug trafficking, money laundering and other charges, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. ...

A mausoleum for transgender women is inaugurated in Mexico's capital as killings continue

Sep. 15, 2023 00:19 AM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican transgender rights activists Kenya Cuevas and Andrea Luna sat in front of their longtime friend Paola Buenrostro’s pink grave in Mexico City. “You don’t have to pay rent anymore. You will have your own home now,” Luna sadly joked to her late...

Scientists call fraud on supposed extraterrestrials presented to Mexican Congress

Sep. 13, 2023 20:39 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Supposed aliens landed in Mexico’s Congress but there were no saucer-shaped UFOs hovering over the historic building or bright green invaders like those seen in Hollywood films. The specter of little green men visited Mexico City as lawmakers heard testimony...

Mexico's former foreign minister threatens to leave party over candidate selection process

Sep. 11, 2023 18:04 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Monday that he will wait to see how the ruling party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador handles his call to nullify its recently completed presidential candidate selection process, but warned that if not...

Congressional watchdog describes border wall harm, says agencies should work together to ease damage

Sep. 07, 2023 19:31 PM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — The construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump toppled untold numbers of saguaro cactuses in Arizona, put endangered ocelots at risk in Texas and disturbed Native American burial grounds, the official congressional watchdog said...