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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

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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

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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

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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

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

The Independent UK

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

The Independent UK

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.

Los Angeles Times

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

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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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Democrats blast Mexico's president for assailing judiciary

Democrats in Congress are sounding the alarm over what they claim is mounting evidence that Mexico’s chief prosecutor is assailing the nation’s independent judiciary and selectively targeting for prosecution opponents of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador

The Guardian - US

Attacks on press in Mexico hit record level during López Obrador’s presidency

Report paints bleak picture of journalist safety under leader who often criticises media and downplays violence against reporters

The Independent UK

Mexico, US meet amid electrical power dispute

Mexican and American officials met amid disagreements about an electrical power reform

The Independent UK

Mexico to rent out presidential jet for weddings and parties

‘It will be open to the public if anyone wants it, because they’re getting married ... and they want to bring their friends,’ president says

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Mexico to rent out presidential jet for weddings, parties

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has now essentially given up on his quixotic bid to sell off the presidential jet, and will rent it out for weddings or coming-of-age parties

The Independent UK

Mexican leader brushes off US allegations of Russia spies

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has brushed off comments by a senior U.S. military official who said there are more Russian spies in Mexico than anywhere else in the world

The Independent UK

Mexican president once again lashes out at environmentalists

A group of Mexican singers, actors and environmentalists have issued a public protest against plans to cut down low jungle between Cancun and Tulum to build a tourist train line

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