López Obrador's trips abroad can be counted on the fingers of one hand. And global leaders will converge on Rio de Janeiro ...

The men asked her to take action, so that their township, Motozintla, along Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala, does not ...

Mexico’s most famous political assassination took place 30 years ago, in the build-up to the 1994 general election. Luis ...

Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and ...

During his presidency, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has used Mexico’s armed forces to build airports, construct a ...

Mexico took control of its most precious natural resource by seizing the oil sector from U.S. companies in a move that’s ...

Claudia Sheinbaum, presidential candidate for Lopez Obrador's ruling National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), holds a strong lead. On Thursday, Xochitl Galvez, the leading opposition contender in ...

The homicide rate has fallen to near-European levels, and Mr Bukele has become perhaps the world’s most popular elected leader. In a referendum on April 21st Ecuadorians overwhelmingly backed tougher ...

But there are pockets of Latin America, particularly in rural areas, where gangs have become popular and act as the de facto state. Some 14% of Latin Americans (80m people) say criminal groups provide ...

The woman holding a double-digit lead ... Obrador, who hails from the oil industry’s Gulf of Mexico heartland and led a 2008 fight against energy reform. The AP is making available its story ...