MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is in a rush to finish the big legislative and building projects he promised before his term ends in September, and experts say officials are getting a bit sloppy amid all the haste. This week, legislators
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The head of traffic police was shot to death Thursday in Mexico’s troubled Pacific coast resort of Acapulco. The city government said gunmen killed Eduardo Chávez, the head of municipal traffic police. The assailants opened fire on Chávez
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in one of Mexico’s largest cities said Friday they have found seven bodies with five of them decapitated and another completely dismembered, in a car left in the middle of traffic on a main expressway. Prosecutors in
Mexico’s presidential candidates have signed a commitment to peace with Catholic Church leaders, proposing strategies to reduce the country’s violence. The commitment to peace, titled “National Commitment to Peace,” outlines policies aimed at combating Mexico’s chronic violence. Claudia Sheinbaum, while open to
Nine people died Monday in a van crash on a highway in a largely Indigenous area on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, authorities said. Prosecutors in the coastal state of Quintana Roo said that the van carrying the victims apparently collided with a truck.
Former Mexico City mayor and ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum holds a comfortable lead in the race for Mexico’s presidency, an opinion poll showed on Monday, days before campaigns for the June 2 vote officially kick off. A Feb. 15-21 survey of
Two people died and one remains missing on Mexico’s Pico de Orizaba, the country’s highest mountain, according to authorities. Late Tuesday, authorities in the central state of Puebla announced the discovery of a guide’s body, who was leading a climbing group. Another
Mexico will likely elect a woman as its next president, but the new leader is expected to face financial limitations due to commitments initiated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. López Obrador has proposed new and expensive projects in the closing months
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Wednesday condemned media reports that the U.S. government launched an abortive investigation into claims that drug traffickers may have contributed money to his failed 2006 campaign. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador immediately interpreted the reports
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Activists in Mexico have published photos of steel and cement pilings from a government project that were driven directly through the roofs of sensitive limestone caves on the Yucatan peninsula. The network of caves, sinkhole lakes and underground