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10-year-old abandoned by smugglers at US border on Thanksgiving, found sobbing and searching for parents

A 10-year-old migrant from El Salvador was found abandoned at the U.S.-Mexico border on Thanksgiving Day, after crossing into Maverick County, Texas, NY Post reports. 10-year-old abandoned by smugglers at US border on Thanksgiving 10-year-old boy abandoned by smugglers at US border The child crossed into Maverick County, Texas, after being abandoned by those who had smuggled him into the …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

As Mexico advances plan to dissolve watchdog agencies, critics cry foul

Al Jazeera

The proposal passed both houses of Mexico’s Congress, leading critics to fear weakened government transparency. An evening vote in Mexico’s Senate to dismantle seven independent government watchdogs has ignited controversy, with the country’s political opposition accusing the governing Morena Party of violating democratic principles. He praised the seven watchdogs as “pillars of transparency and accountability that guaranteed to the people …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Car bombs. Massacres. A cartel turf war. Mexico’s new president confronts a wave of violence

LA Times

Mourners attend a Mass on Oct. 20 alongside the coffin of Roman Catholic priest Marcelo Perez, who was killed in San Cristobal de las Casas in Mexico’s Chiapas state. As a candidate, Sheinbaum vowed to continue the strategy of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who expanded the military’s reach but sought to avoid direct confrontations with cartels, and insisted …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Catholic bishops call for authorities to step up against violence in southern Mexico

The Independent

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Car Bombing Outrages Mexico City, Wounding Police Officers

Associated Press

A car bomb explodes outside a police station in western Mexico, wounding 3 officers. The attack, which occurred in two different towns located about a half-hour away from each other, suggests the involvement of drug cartels. Despite the violence, newly inaugurated President Claudia Sheinbaum pledged to continue the ‘hugs, not bullets’ approach of her predecessor. However, it takes two to …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Mexico’s new president promises to resume fight against climate change

The Independent

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexico’s AMLO defends legacy in final state-of-the-nation speech

Al Jazeera

Mexican president says controversial judicial reform plan to elect judges would ensure that courts are ‘at the service of the people’. Speaking for two hours in Mexico City’s sprawling Zocalo Square, Lopez Obrador bade farewell to enthusiastic followers on Sunday as he seeks to advance a major overhaul of the country’s courts. “Democracies can’t function without a strong, independent and …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Aides’ vehicle in a convoy carrying Mexico’s next president involved in a crash that killed 1

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — A highway accident Friday involving an SUV carrying aides to Claudia Sheinbaum, who won Mexico’s June 2 presidential elections, has resulted in at least one fatality. Sheinbaum’s spokesman said the advance car hit another vehicle on a highway in the northern state of Coahuila, and that one person in the other car was killed. The accident happened …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Challenges before Mexico's first woman president

Hindustan Times

On June 4 Claudia Sheinbaum made history by becoming the first woman president of Mexico, a country of 130 million people. The discourse on increasing the participation of women in leadership and policy making started in 1975 at the United Nations’ First World Conference on Women, coincidentally held in Mexico City. In 2018, women won half the seats in Mexico’s …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Mexico’s incoming administration pledges to reduce budget deficit as markets recover from shock

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s treasury secretary pledged Tuesday to bring down the federal budget deficits in coming years, after the country suffered a partial meltdown in the currency and stock markets. Finance Minister Rogelio Ramírez said the federal deficit will be cut from this year’s level of almost 6% of gross domestic product, to around 3% in coming years. Ramírez …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexico’s election: A victory for organised crime

Al Jazeera

On June 2, Mexico elected Claudia Sheinbaum as its first woman president. Of course, the surge in femicides occurs within a general context of violence; in the first four and a half years of AMLO’s term, Mexico registered 160,594 homicides, while the estimated number of missing people has now surpassed 111,000 – a figure AMLO has preferred to drastically lowball. …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

‘La Presidenta’: Claudia Sheinbaum wins historic Mexico election mandate

Al Jazeera

The country’s first female president faces a raft of challenges, from crime to a fractured polity. Mexico has elected Claudia Sheinbaum, a former mayor of the capital, as the country’s first female president after a heated election on Sunday, with the nation’s top election authority projecting a comfortable win for the 61-year-old physicist-turned-politician. Sheinbaum, a protege of Mexico’s outgoing President …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Analysis: How did Mexico elect a female president before the United States? Not by accident

LA Times

Claudia Sheinbaum addresses supporters early Monday in Mexico City after the National Electoral Institute announced she held an irreversible lead in the election. Mexico has elected its first female president — a U.S.-educated climate scientist and former mayor whose landslide victory Sunday reflects both the continued dominance of the country’s ruling party as well as the vast strides made by …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Sexist tropes and misinformation swirl online as Mexico prepares to elect its first female leader

Associated Press

Mexican voters are poised to elect their first female president, a cause of celebration for many that has also touched off a flurry of false and misogynist online claims, blurring the lines behind fact and fiction. The candidate considered the favorite in Sunday’s contest, former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, has also faced slurs about her Jewish background as well …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

The fall of Mexico’s PRI party, a once-dominant political force

Al Jazeera

As the June 2 election nears, experts say the PRI remains weak, limping to a lacklustre result in the presidential race. Building a ‘well-oiled’ machine Luis Herrán, a professor of Latin American history at the University of New Mexico, explained that, for much of its existence, the PRI kept losses at bay by managing a “well-oiled machinery” of political power. …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Violence clouds the last day of campaigning for Mexico’s election

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexico held the last day of campaigning Wednesday before Sunday’s nationwide election, but the closing rallies were darkened by attacks on candidates and the country’s persistently high homicide rate. Opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez started her last campaign rallies early Wednesday on the outskirts of Mexico City, and she focused her ire on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Bullets before ballots: Dozens of Mexican candidates have been killed as cartels seek more control

LA Times

Noé Ramos was chatting with voters, sharing breakfast with supporters of his mayoral reelection bid in his hometown in northern Mexico. On Wednesday, the last official day of the Mexican campaign, another mayoral candidate was killed — in the western state of Guerrero, among Mexico’s most violent. The killings this cycle, documented by human rights groups and others, haven’t reached …

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7 months ago

Mexico presidential candidates offer little detail to address country’s violence in final debate

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Less than two weeks from national elections, opposition presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez hit away on security, one of Mexico’s most stubborn challenges, in her final debate Sunday night with governing party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum. Sheinbaum, the frontrunner in the race, defended the security record of her mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, while Gálvez accused the …

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8 months ago

Mexico’s leading presidential candidate stopped by masked men who ask for help in stemming violence

Associated Press

TAPACHULA, Mexico — Masked men stopped a vehicle carrying Mexico’s leading presidential candidate while she was traveling between campaign stops Sunday to ask that she address the violence in the southern state of Chiapas if she wins the June 2 election. Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, the governing Morena party’s candidate, remained in the front passenger seat of the …

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8 months ago

AMLO Expanded Mexico’s Military. It Built Airports Instead of Reining In Murders

Live Mint

-- In his six years as Mexico’s president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gave his country’s military two important jobs: build infrastructure works to supercharge the economy and rein in violent crime. But it’s going to be hard to take away all those businesses, and they were the ones who really insisted in handling the country’s security.” The Public Budget The …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexico’s presidential candidates promise security or continuity as campaigns officially begin

Associated Press

IRAPUATO, Mexico — Tens of thousands of people packed a stadium in a violence-torn western Mexico state while even more did so in Mexico City’s central square Friday as the country’s leading presidential candidates officially kicked off their campaigns with promises of greater security and support for the outgoing president’s social programs. Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, President Andrés …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Mexico will likely elect a woman as its next president, but money to govern is already being spent

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexico is almost certain to elect its first female president in June — both leading candidates are women — but it’s almost equally as certain that she won’t have much room to act independently of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “In order to deactivate the current fiscal vulnerability, the incoming administration will have to adjust fiscally …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Mexico’s ruling party appears to have dodged possible desertions in the run-up to 2024 elections

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s ruling party appeared Monday to have dodged the possibility of large-scale desertions of disappointed hopeful candidates in the run-up to the country’s 2024 elections. Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced he would not leave President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party. Ebrard had wanted the party’s nomination for president in the June elections but lost …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Mexico will elect a female president, but Mexican women will still lose

Al Jazeera

In a landmark first, two women are competing for the Mexican presidency, but neither seems that interested in upsetting the patriarchy. Last year, Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography estimated that more than 70 percent of Mexican women and girls over the age of 15 had experienced some form of violence. In March, Sheinbaum came under fire from feminists …

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10-year-old abandoned by smugglers at US border on Thanksgiving, found sobbing and searching for parents

As Mexico advances plan to dissolve watchdog agencies, critics cry foul

Car bombs. Massacres. A cartel turf war. Mexico’s new president confronts a wave of violence

Catholic bishops call for authorities to step up against violence in southern Mexico

Car Bombing Outrages Mexico City, Wounding Police Officers

Mexico’s new president promises to resume fight against climate change

Mexico’s AMLO defends legacy in final state-of-the-nation speech

Aides’ vehicle in a convoy carrying Mexico’s next president involved in a crash that killed 1

Challenges before Mexico's first woman president

Mexico’s incoming administration pledges to reduce budget deficit as markets recover from shock

Mexico’s election: A victory for organised crime

‘La Presidenta’: Claudia Sheinbaum wins historic Mexico election mandate

Analysis: How did Mexico elect a female president before the United States? Not by accident

Sexist tropes and misinformation swirl online as Mexico prepares to elect its first female leader

The fall of Mexico’s PRI party, a once-dominant political force

Violence clouds the last day of campaigning for Mexico’s election

Bullets before ballots: Dozens of Mexican candidates have been killed as cartels seek more control

Mexico presidential candidates offer little detail to address country’s violence in final debate

Mexico’s leading presidential candidate stopped by masked men who ask for help in stemming violence

AMLO Expanded Mexico’s Military. It Built Airports Instead of Reining In Murders

Mexico’s presidential candidates promise security or continuity as campaigns officially begin

Mexico will likely elect a woman as its next president, but money to govern is already being spent

Mexico’s ruling party appears to have dodged possible desertions in the run-up to 2024 elections

Mexico will elect a female president, but Mexican women will still lose