Mexico’s top court struck down part of a law that would put day-to-day public security forces under military control, a verdict that deals a blow to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador who pushed for the legislation, the Financial Times reported. The case centers on Mexico’s National...
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Mexico’s top immigration official will face criminal charges for a fire that killed 40 people in a migrant center in Ciudad Juarez last month, an incident that has increased scrutiny over poor conditions and corruption at the country’s migrant facilities, Sky News reported Wednesday. The federal...
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Mexican authorities launched an investigation into the fire that killed at least 39 migrants inside an immigrant detention center near the US border Monday, an incident that has prompted criticism over the government’s immigration policies, the Guardian reported Thursday. To date, Mexican officials said they had...
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador this week defended the insertion of phrases and words in grade-school textbooks that many teachers have long considered to be ungrammatical, the Associated Press reported. His comments came after copies of new textbooks posted on social media showed a number...
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In what the BBC called a “twisted moral code,” Mexican mobsters affiliated with the Scorpions Group, a faction of the drug-running Gulf Cartel crime syndicate, recently forced five of their members to turn themselves in to police for murdering two of the four Americans they...
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Tens of thousands of Mexicans marched in the streets across the country Sunday to protest President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s overhaul of the electoral system, a move many critics believe will threaten democracy and influence next year’s elections, Bloomberg reported. Demonstrations took place in more than...
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A US court convicted a former high-ranking Mexican official, who oversaw Mexico’s efforts to fight drug trafficking, of taking millions in bribes and aiding the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, the Washington Post reported. A jury found top law enforcement official Genaro García Luna guilty of numerous...
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Mexican lawmakers have passed a reform bill that would cut funding for the country’s electoral authority, a move critics warn will undermine the institution’s independence and its ability to organize elections, the Financial Times reported. The bill is part of a push by populist President Andrés...
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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Mexico this week to protest against President Andres Manuel López Obrador's controversial proposal to overhaul the country’s electoral commission, which many fear will hand too much power to the government, Reuters reported. The proposed reform would...
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The Mexican government raised eyebrows this week after officials released a national anti-drug ad campaign focused on the city of Philadelphia, the Associated Press reported. The videos did not specifically identify the city or any neighborhood but the places portrayed in the ads showed scenes of...
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Mexican lawmakers voted to eliminate daylight saving time this week, a move that ends the turning of the clock twice a year, the New York Times reported Thursday. Under the new measure, daylight saving time will not apply to the majority of the country. That means...
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A US federal court rejected the Mexican government’s $10 billion lawsuit against US-based gun manufacturers, which accused the companies of facilitating the trafficking of weapons across the US-Mexico border to drug cartels, Reuters reported. Last year, the Mexican government sued a number of gunmakers, including Smith...
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The special prosecutor investigating the 2014 kidnapping and disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico resigned this week, a move that raised concerns among the students’ families about the lagging pace of the long-running probe, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced...
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Mexican lawmakers passed a bill this week that would transfer the control of the civilian-led National Guard to the military, a move that many critics warn will give the army too much power and lead to abuses, Al Jazeera reported. The move comes nearly a month...
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Mexican authorities arrested the country’s former attorney general Friday over his alleged role in the mass kidnappings of 43 students in 2014, a major move by the government as it grapples to resolve one of the worst human rights scandals in recent decades, the Washington...
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is attempting to introduce a constitutional amendment to extend the military’s control over policing, a move that many critics called a slide toward authoritarianism, the Associated Press reported. López Obrador proposed plans to make the quasi-military National Guard a part...
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador submitted a bill this week that would end daylight savings time in Mexico, a move that some economists warned could cause market disruptions, the Associated Press reported. The bill would put an end to the practice of changing clocks twice...
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The party of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador won four of six governorships in the country’s regional elections, a victory that further consolidates its power ahead of the 2024 presidential elections, the Associated Press reported Monday. Results showed that López Obrador’s National Regeneration Movement –...
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A Mexican drug gang recently left six severed heads on a car roof in order to intimidate rival dealers who might try to infringe on claimed turf in the southern Mexican town of Chilapa de Alvarez. "In Chilapa selling crystal, kidnapping, extortion and stealing are strictly...
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Mexico’s Supreme Court struck down a 2021 law that would have ordered cellphone companies to collect biometric data from their customers in an effort to fight phone crime in the country, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The court ruled that the request to collect data such...
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