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Aides' vehicle in a convoy carrying Mexico's next president involved in a crash that killed 1
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A highway accident Friday involving an SUV carrying aides to Claudia Sheinbaum, who won Mexico’s June 2 presidential elections, has resulted in at least one fatality. Sheinbaum was not injured. Sheinbaum’s spokesman said the advance car hit another vehicle on...
Mexico's small, oft-questioned Green Party to become the second-largest force in Congress
MEXICO CITY (AP) — It’s been a long strange trip for Mexico’s Ecologist Green Party, which rode on its alliance with the ruling Morena party to become the second-largest voting block in Congress. This Green Party has been better known for picking presidential winners like it...
US diplomat warns of great consequences for migrants at border who don't choose legal pathways
MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar warned Thursday that migrants who do not opt for a legal pathway into the U.S. will face great consequences, a message coming at a time when the Biden administration needs Mexico’s cooperation in easing the flow of migrants to their...
Mexico finds the remains of some of the 63 miners who died 18 years ago
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities announced Wednesday that they found the remains of some of the 63 miners who were trapped 18 years ago in a coal mine in northern Mexico. The accident occurred at the Pasta de Conchos mine in the state of Coahuila, which borders Texas, on Feb....
Mexico's tactic to cut immigration to the US: wear out migrants
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — “Here, again.” Yeneska García’s face crumbled as she said it, and she pressed her head into her hands. Since fleeing crisis in Venezuela in January, the 23-year-old had trekked through the Darien Gap jungle dividing Colombia and...
Mexican peso weakens as next president vows to forge ahead with 20 reforms - and adds a couple more
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican peso continued to weaken Tuesday as Mexico’s outgoing president — and his successor — vowed to forge ahead with some 20 c onstitutional changes that have rattled investors. Claudia Sheinbaum won this month’s presidential election. But she has...
Investigators probe the killings of 4 women and 2 children in central Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday that investigators are looking into the killings of four women and two children in central Mexico, where National Guard officers were present. The murders occurred Sunday in León, an industrial city...
Mexico's outgoing president vows to pursue changes to Constitution despite market nervousness
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s outgoing president pledged Friday to press ahead with j udicial reforms despite nervousness among investors and suggestions from his own handpicked successor that he should go slow. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would pursue 20...
Mexican authorities clear one of Mexico City's largest downtown migrant tent encampments
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican federal immigration authorities said Thursday they have cleared one of Mexico City’s largest downtown tent encampments of migrants. The National Immigration Institute says the migrants had been forced to pay bribes of between $12 and $35 to an...
A year of elections in democracies around the world is revealing deep dissatisfaction among voters
In a community center in East London, about 20 men gathered for their regular lunch meeting, sipping coffee and tea from mismatched mugs and engaging in an increasingly popular pastime in the world’s democracies: Complaining about their government. They feel estranged from the...
