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Meeting under virus cloud, U.S., Mexican leaders hail relations
At the White House, Donald Trump hails the US-Mexico relationship as 'outstanding,' and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador – a left-wing populist – adopted a conciliatory tone
Mexico ratifies modified North American trade deal
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tweets: 'Now it is up to the US and Canadian legislatures to do the same. It's good news'
Trump pulls back on designating Mexico cartels as 'terror' groups
This comes after a request from Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Trump calls for 'war' on cartels as Mormons murdered in Mexico
Gunmen ambush the members of the LeBaron family – a large clan of Mormons who emigrated to Mexico in the late 19th century – on a rural road on Monday
Mexico Supreme Court justice resigns over suspicious bank deposits
In June, Mexican media report that Medina Mora was suspected of having made $5.2 million transfers to bank accounts in the US and Britain that were not reported in his financial declarations
Mexico finance minister quits over Lopez Obrador 'disagreements'
In a video, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says (Carlos Urzua) 'doesn't agree with the decisions we're taking'
Mexico will not detain migrants at U.S. border – president
'We are going to deal with this matter so that no abuses are committed,' says Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Trump, Mexico's Obrador tout U.S.-Mexico deal to avert tariffs
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says the bottom-line of the last-minute deal was simple: 'there will not be an economic or financial crisis in Mexico on Monday, June 10'
Trump steps up attacks on Mexico, tariff threat called 'deadly serious'
United States President Donald Trump slams Mexico as an 'abuser' of the US, 'taking but never giving'
Mexican president says confident that U.S. will negotiate on tariffs
A Mexican delegation will meet in Washington with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss the surprise tariff
Mexico breaks violence record in first quarter of 2019
Mexico's Executive Secretariat of the Public Security National System says the 8,493 murders recorded from January to March represents a 9.6% rise on the same period in 2018
Anger in Spain, eyerolls in Mexico over conquest row
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tears open a 500-year-old wound when he said he had sent letters to the king of Spain and the pope urging them to apologize for the conquest of the Americas
Mexico Supreme Court judges slash own salaries
The magistrates cut their own salaries by 25% after they were criticized by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
New president AMLO sets out Mexico's 'transformation'
'We're at your disposal to answer your questions. There are no limits, no censorship... The media are instruments to keep the people informed,' Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tells reporters
Leftist Lopez Obrador sworn in as Mexico's new president
The new president inherits a sticky set of problems from his unpopular predecessor, Enrique Peña Nieto
Mexico set to inaugurate new president Lopez Obrador
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will give a second speech at the National Palace, where the long disused seat of power is and where he plans to install his offices
El Chapo trial details suitcase stuffed with millions for ex-minister
Jesus Zambada, a government informant held in US custody since 2008, says the bribes were delivered in person to Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico's former public security minister, in 2005-2006
Mexico's new leftist-majority Congress sworn in
Morena, which President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador founded just 4 years ago, and its coalition allies will have 307 of the 500 seats in the lower house and 69 of the 128 seats in the Senate
Mexico president-elect wants Canada in new NAFTA
The ball is now in Canada's court after the United States and Mexico reached an agreement on Monday, August 27
Trump presses Mexico to speed up NAFTA talks – Lopez Obrador
NAFTA talks are due to resume on July 26, in Washington between Canada, Mexico and the United States, and Mexico City has said a deal could be struck by the end of August
Mexico's Lopez Obrador talks of new relationship in letter to Trump
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador publishes the letter 'so that all Mexicans know our position on the new relationship we want' with the United States
Team Trump looks to start off on right foot with Mexico president-elect
'I believe we can be reasonably optimistic that Mexico will be able to find a basis for understanding and have a better relationship with the United States,' says Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Mexico's president-elect unveils legislative agenda
The anti-establishment leftist announces a 12-point plan for legislation to deliver the 'true change' he has promised Mexicans fed up with crime and corruption
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Mexico president-elect meets predecessor to ready 'transformation'
President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's victory is the first time in Mexico's modern democracy that a candidate has won more than half the vote
Trump, Mexico president-elect get off to 'great' start
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador writes on Twitter, 'I proposed exploring a universal deal [involving] development projects that would create jobs in Mexico and, by doing so, reduce migration and improve security'
Lopez Obrador: Mexico's next president is 'stubborn' leftist
Lopez Obrador, 64, is one of the most divisive figures in Mexican politics: his critics hate him as fervently as his fans love him
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Mexico presidential candidates open race slamming Trump
The veteran leftist leading the polls, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and his rival, Ricardo Anaya, both hit back hard at Trump, whose anti-Mexican diatribes and insistence that Mexico pay for his planned border wall make him unpopular here
3 independents seek to shake up Mexico presidential race
The July 1 election will be the first time Mexico has allowed independent presidential candidates in its modern history
Violence as Mexico's Pena Nieto sworn in as president
UPDATED Mexico s new President Enrique Pena Nieto pledged to reduce the poverty and violence plaguing his country after a rowdy swearing in ceremony marked by protests inside and outside Congress
Leftist candidate rejects Mexico results as 'fraudulent'
Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday July 2 rejected the victory of rival Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico s presidential election as fraudulent
Peña Nieto wins Mexico presidential vote: exit polls
Enrique Peña Nieto the youthful candidate of the party that governed Mexico for decades won a resounding victory Sunday July 1 Monday July 2 in Manila in the country s presidential election exit polls showed
Back to the future? PRI expects Mexico vote win
Voters in Mexico tired of rampant drug violence and 12 years of conservative leaders go to the polls Sunday July 1 to elect a new president likely the candidate from the party that ruled for decades
