Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Home to 8% of world’s population the region accounts for 30% of all deaths from Covid-19

China’s president releases statement leaving Russia’s Putin among handful of leaders remaining

World leaders congratulate Joe Biden on his victory in presidential election

Restructuring could set precedent for future sovereign crises

Donald Trump claims improved ties as he hosts Mexico’s president

Foreign students whose classes have been switched online ordered to leave the USA

Virus is raging across a region with political, social and economic conditions to help it thrive

Crisis is ‘far from over’, says WHO’s director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

World round-up: Brazil surpasses Italy as country with third-highest fatalities

Pandemic bearing down on region that spent 2019 racked by political crises and social unrest

Andrés Manuel López Obrador says virus curve flattened despite data showing otherwise

An estimated 60,000 disappeared in Mexico’s drug wars. Some were ‘cooked’ in ovens

Mexico’s communion with souls of deceased confounds relatives of Ayotzinapa missing

Security forces overwhelmed by fire power of Sinaloa cartel after arrest of Ovidio Guzmán

Messages attributed to drugs cartel left at site of shooting in state of Michoacán

Supreme court decision likely to severely curb number of people who can seek asylum

Dozens killed as suspected gang members set bar on fire in port of Coatzacoalcos

Texas governor calls shooting ‘a hate crime’, as FBI open domestic terror investigation

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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rallies country in ‘defence of national dignity’

US threatens levies on imports from southern neighbour if border security not tighter

Activists arrested and migrants detained near Guatemalan frontier as Trump deadline draws near

Trump administration threatening tariffs of 5% on Mexican imports from next week

Tariff threat looms for Mexican imports if illegal migration to US not terminated

Tariff will increase ‘until illegal immigration problem is remedied’, US president says

There are many challengers to the Sinaloa boss’s throne amid endemic corruption

Corruption and not drug wars now the main focus of anger among Mexicans

Joaquín Guzmán case casts light on bribery, smuggling and competing drug king pins

Up to 800 people had flocked to fill plastic containers from 7m-high gasoline geyser

Government eyes tax revenues and cutting illegal supply chain, but will cartels suffer?

G20 summit sideline accord set to cover $1 trillion worth of commercial exchanges

Andrés Manuel López Obrador says public can vote on his presidency after three years

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose rise echoes Brazil’s Lula, to rethink war on drugs

López Obrador vows to ‘reach an understanding’ with US president on key issues

A landslide victory for a leftist presidential candidate is an expression of Mexicans’ anger over poverty, corruption and violence

64-year-old records widest winning margin in presidential election since 1980s

New president pledges to pacify country and build Mexico’s very own welfare state

Vote comes at time of disillusionment towards unchecked corruption, poverty and violence

Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador set to destroy the status quo in weekend election

Leftist strongman is last of generation of Latin American revolutionaries still in office