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Andrés Manuel López Obrador

June 2024

  • A slim, middle-aged Latina woman with pulled-back brown hair and a color long-sleeved top in purple, blue, pink, and red, stands at a lectern that has her name on it, smiling.

    Mexico’s new president ran on climate goals. Will she follow through?

  • Claudia Sheinbaum

    The Guardian view on Mexico’s new president: a stunning victory for pro-poor politics

  • Claudia Sheinbaum waves at supporters with the Mexican flag in the background

    Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as its first female president in landslide victory

  • A smiling woman wearing a purple shirt greets supporters

    Mexico votes in election certain to bring country’s first female president

May 2024

  • A man wearing a black suit speaks at a podium, with the Mexican flag hanging behind him

    Amlo promised to transform Mexico, but he leaves it much the same

    Many voters are better off, but the Mexican president failed to solve bigger problems like violence and corruption
  • Claudia Sheinbaum greets people prior to the 2024 closing campaign event at Zocalo on 29 May 2024 in Mexico City.

    She is poised to become Mexico’s first female president. Can she escape Amlo’s shadow?

    Claudia Sheinbaum has capitalized on the president’s popularity throughout her campaign, but will the climate scientist be able to pursue her own agenda once elected?
    • Stage collapses at Mexico campaign rally leaving nine dead

    • Stage collapses at Mexico campaign rally leaving several dead – video

    • Mayoral candidate and five others killed in shooting at campaign rally in Mexico

April 2024

  • officers in black breaking into a white building

    Mexican president releases footage of ‘despicable’ raid on embassy in Ecuador

  • Ecuadorian police special forces enter the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest Ecuador’s former vice- president Jorge Glas

    Mexico suspends diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raid embassy

March 2024

  • Women and men holding signs of loved ones on protest march

    Mexican detectives found after vanishing during search for 43 missing students

    Officials gave no indication of how detectives were found or whether they were freed from captivity

February 2024

  • Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador<br>FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a military parade in Mexico City, Aug. 13, 2021. Mexico’s president acknowledged Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024 that the armed forces will take over fixing the nation’s highways. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

    Biden officials play down report of US investigation into Mexican president

    US looked into claims that Andrés Manuel López Obrador allies took money from cartels, according to a New York Times report

December 2023

  • People wait near a border crossing in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on 20 December.

    US-Mexico border talks yield ‘important agreements’ on rail and bridge crossings

    Two countries agree to enhance efforts to tackle human smuggling, poverty and violence and promote legal ‘pathways’

November 2023

  • Supporters of Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in Mexico City on 6 April 2022.

    Mexican president’s popularity soars even as country faces persistent turmoil

    Amlo’s pension program helped boost his approval rating, but critics point to his various shortcomings as his term nears its end

July 2023

  • Registration Of The Aspirants To The Leadership Of The Frente Amplio Por México (Broad Front For Mexico), Mexico City - 04 Jul 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (13998308ac) Xochitl Galvez, pre-candidate for the presidency of Mexico, during an interview with the media at the premises of the National Action Party to register as a candidate in charge of the Frente Amplio por Mexico and pre-candidate for the presidency of Mexico, where the guidelines that candidates must follow were made known, including not calling for votes and reporting their funding at all times to be reported to the National Electoral Institute. Registration Of The Aspirants To The Leadership Of The Frente Amplio Por México (Broad Front For Mexico), Mexico City - 04 Jul 2023

    Xóchitl Gálvez’s prickly presidential bid a thorn in side of Mexican leader

    But the buoyant politician with some decidedly progressive views has to win over voters from the conservative Pan party

May 2023

  • Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaking during a press conference in Mexico City.

    Mexico’s president says he would support peace agreement with cartels

    Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s comments come after an activist’s open letter to crime groups to stop forced disappearances

April 2023

  • FILE - In this July 27, 2020 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, center left, waves to the press as he arrives to give his daily, morning press conference in front of the former presidential plane at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City. After almost 4 1/2 years of trying, Mexico's president says he has finally sold the unwanted presidential jet, to the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

    Mexican president finally offloads unwanted luxury jet … to Tajikistan

  • Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, holds a press conference about the state of trade in fentanyl between Mexico and the US.

    Mexican president bemoans ‘rude’ US fentanyl pressure in plea to Xi Jinping

March 2023

  • Xavier López in 2017

    Mexican children’s entertainer Chabelo dies aged 88

    Comic, real name Xavier López, fronted children’s TV show that ran from 1967 to 2015
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