AMLO - Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Two very different candidates, Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez, will compete in 2024 for the highest office in the nation

The site south of Chichén Itzá will be inaugurated by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López amid controversy

In 2021, the Mexican president promised that he would design a Global Fraternity and Welfare Fund and propose it to the UN. This project would attract donations from the world’s wealthiest individuals, companies and countries to assist 750 million people living in poverty

Karla Quintana did not elaborate on the motives, saying only that she is leaving her post “in light of current circumstances”

Congressman Dan Crenshaw has used the disappearance of the five young men to insist that the drug cartels be named ‘enemies of Mexico and the United States’

Authorities assure the victims’ families that the corpses will be recovered within the next few months

EL PAÍS visited the Indigenous Zapotec leader inside his prison cell. According to the UN, he was convicted and jailed for a fabricated murder: ‘The real reason for the arrest and prosecution of López Alavez is his activity as a defender of the human rights of his community’

The conservative Republican lawmaker — who supports ‘declaring war on the cartels’ — assures EL PAÍS that he is willing to meet with the president of Mexico and move past the verbal dispute that the two men have been engaged in for several months

Activist Catalina Vargas disappeared one month after the execution of Teresa Magueyal. The UN has warned of the spiral of violence directed towards the searchers in the state

The Institutional Revolutionary Parties held the presidency and almost all statehouses without interruption for 70 years. But the PRI, as the party is known, has been reduced to a shadow of its former self

The number of disputes over laws and decrees between the executive branch and the judiciary has skyrocketed during AMLO’s six-year term, straining the institutional balance in Mexico

Just 10 days into the campaign, the presidential contenders are ripping into each other despite pleas for unity and threats of disqualification

The contenders tout the virtues of President López Obrador, well aware of the influence he wields in the succession process

Death threats, an attack on her bodyguard and an attempted break-in at her home forced Montserrat Caballero to take temporary refuge in the housing quarters of the 28th Infantry Battalion, so that she can sleep in peace. EL PAÍS interviewed the first female mayor of the city and visited her new home

Morena’s victory in the State of Mexico deals a life-threatening blow to the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which had governed the state without interruption for nearly a century

The allegations of lawfare, proscription or overthrow attempts such as the one suffered by Lula in January are clouding regional politics

The polls are predicting that President López Obrador’s party will win the gubernatorial election in the state of Mexico, which is made up of the areas that surround the capital. If the Institutional Revolutionary Party were to be be defeated after its 94-year-long hold over the governorship, this would be a major victory for the young political movement

In a statement signed by 1,000 leading figures, including Noam Chomsky and Diego Luna, the EZLN say that they are coming under attack from paramilitary groups, who act with the ‘passive and active complicity’ of the authorities

The race could mark a high-water point for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party, which has imitated — and largely replaced — the old PRI across Mexico

The president of Victims of Illicit Drugs, Jaime Puerta, recalls the loss of his only child after the latter contacted a dealer on Snapchat

The end of Donald Trump’s Covid measure, which allowed the immediate expulsion of people, has not solved the problems in the area or between the governments of Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador

With the end of Title 42, we explain how the program was used to deny entry to asylum seekers and migrants, and what will happen after it expires

The city of Tapachula has become a bottleneck where those seeking to travel north are stuck for months as they wait for a temporary permit that will allow them to continue their journey to the U.S.

The presidents of the United States and Mexico discussed in a telephone call the actions of both governments in light of the end of the measure, which has provoked a tide of migrants seeking to enter U.S. territory

The former secretary of Public Security profited from lucrative, sole source contracts for location tracking and phone tapping equipment

As a part of the memory recovery process, a group of trans women is denouncing the rapes the ‘white brigades’ and police officers committed between 1965 and 1990. ‘We lived through a horrible panic’