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Mexican officials force airlines to use new, distant airport

Transportation officials in Mexico will effectively force airlines to use a new, more distant airport that was one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's pet projects

The Independent UK

Mexican president to talk development, migration on tour

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador begins a lightning tour Thursday to four Central American countries and Cuba in five days to discuss his approach to development and ways it might help alleviate the pressure to migrate

The Independent UK

Biden holds talks with Mexico’s president as pressure mounts over Title 42 border policy

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden held talks Friday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a looming deadline to lift COVID-related restrictions at the U.S. southern border magnified concerns over the administration’s immigration policies and an increase in illegal border crossings.

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Biden holds talks with Mexico's president as pressure mounts over Title 42

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is holding talks Friday afternoon with Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a looming deadline to lift COVID-era restrictions at the U.S. southern border has magnified concerns over the administration's immigration policies and an influx in illegal border crossings.

Los Angeles Times

Migration a top focus for Biden call with Mexican president

President Joe Biden plans to discuss efforts to address the unprecedented flow of migration along the U.S. southern border in a Friday afternoon call with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador

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Mexico president proposes dramatic electoral reforms

Mexico’s government is proposing a dramatic overhaul of the nation’s electoral system and the agency that oversees it

The Independent UK

Mexico's president imitates Trump in 'art of the deal'

Former U.S. President Donald Trump cast himself as a master of “The Art of the Deal,” but his old buddy, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, may be taking over that title

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Mexico's electricity sector rankled by doubt and legal chaos

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s efforts to reshape the country’s electricity sector to favor the state-owned power company have spurred hundreds of lawsuits and sown a level of uncertainty that is costing jobs and private investment

The Independent UK

‘Threats and bullets’: wave of killings highlights perils of journalism in Mexico

Media ‘caught in crossfire’ between criminal gangs and government, say journalists after latest murder

The Guardian - UK

Rosario Ibarra, Mexico’s champion of the disappeared, has died at 95

She refused an honor in 2019, saying she’d accept it only when Mexico learns the truth about its disappeared, who number nearly 100,000 — 98% of them in an era of cartel violence rather than ‘dirty war’ politics.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mexico’s Lopez Obrador says Abbott’s costly border checks that snarled traffic were ‘despicable’

EL PASO, Texas — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday slammed Texas Governor Greg Abbott over his stepped up inspections of commercial trucks at the border, which for 10 days disrupted trade and the supply chain between both countries.

Tribune News Service

Mexican leader fails to pass limits on foreign energy firms

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has failed to get enough votes to pass a constitutional reform limiting private and foreign firms in the electrical power industry

The Independent UK

Mexico's champion of the disappeared, Rosario Ibarra, dies

Rosario Ibarra's long struggle to learn the fate of her disappeared son helped develop Mexico’s human rights movement and led her to become the country’s first female presidential candidate

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Why is US upset about Mexico's electricity law?

Mexico's Congress is poised to vote on a constitutional reform that would undo much of a 2013 market opening in electrical power and guarantee a majority market share for the state-owned power utility company

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SHELL-“No puedes ignorar lo que hay en tu estado”. Entrevista con Rubén Rocha Moya, gobernador de Sinaloa

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Sinaloa governor on leading a region under the thumb of drug cartels: ‘We handle it’

EXCLUSIVE: In the second part of ‘Narcomundo’, a special investigation by Independent en Español, José Luis Montenegro speaks to the governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, and sheds light on how the power of drug trafficking has broken the strength of the Mexican state

Chicago Sun-Times

Islas Marias once housed Mexico’s island prison. Shut down in 2019, it soon will aim to lure tourists.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is aiming to make the former prison an ecotourism destination where visitors can watch sea birds and enjoy the beaches.

Chicago Sun-Times

López Obrador won Mexico presidential recall vote, but critics blast electioneering tactics

The president, whose victory never was in doubt, benefited from his Morena party’s use of illegal tactics to get out the vote that critics say could weaken Mexico’s democracy.

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The Independent UK

Old-style government practices seen in Mexican recall vote

Analysts in Mexico say President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's recall vote could, paradoxically, leave Mexico's democracy weaker

Los Angeles Times

Mexicans vote on whether to recall the president, an election he wanted

TEPETITÁN, Mexico — Signs displaying the smiling image of Mexico's president hang outside many houses in his tiny, rural home town in the southeastern state of Tabasco.

The Independent UK

Mexicans vote on whether president stays or goes

Mexicans vote Sunday on whether their popular President should end his six-year term barely midway through or continue to the end

The Independent UK

Mexico's converted island prison ready to receive tourists

A small archipelago off Mexico’s Pacific coast that had been home to an island prison colony is now ready to receive tourists

The Guardian - US

Stay or go? Mexicans vote on Amlo’s performance in historic recall election

Despite Covid deaths and enduring drug violence, voters look poised to keep president in office in referendum he supports

The Independent UK

Mexico high court OKs preference for state power plants

Mexico’s Supreme Court has ruled constitutional a controversial energy law pushed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that gives government-owned power plants preference over private competitors

The Independent UK

Mexicans vote on recall of president, an effort he asked for

For the first time in history, Mexicans will vote Sunday on whether their president should finish out the rest of his term

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