Tag: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

• Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:21 UTC

  Mexico supports Argentine candidate to lead the Inter American Development bank

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s administration plans to support Argentina in the race to lead the Inter American Bank, a key Washington-based multilateral lender, in another sign of political rapport between the region’s two most important left-wing governments.

• Friday, January 31st 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Mexican economy contracted in 2019, first time in a decade; 2020 prospects weak

  

  Mexico’s economy contracted last year for the first time in a decade, data showed on Thursday, as businesses curbed investment due to concern over the economic management of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and forecasts for 2020 are also weak.

• Friday, January 24th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Mexico's National Guard “rescue” some 2,000 migrants trying to cross from Guatemala

  

  Mexican migration authorities released an official count of the number of people detained along the country's southern border two days before, estimating that more than 2,000 people were “rescued” after they crossed the border with Guatemala.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  Mexico considering a lottery to get rid of the “extravagant” presidential jet: US$ 30 a ticket

  

  Mexico is considering a lottery to get rid of the nation's presidential jet, after a year of failed attempts to sell the aircraft. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said this week that Mexico is flying back the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which has been stored in a California hangar since December 2018, just after he took office, to resume sale efforts.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Mexico offers jobs to a Central America migrants' caravan heading for the US

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offered 4,000 jobs Friday to migrants in a new caravan currently crossing Central America toward the United States.

• Thursday, January 16th 2020 - 07:00 UTC

  Lopez Obrador admits no buyers for the US$ 130 million presidential plane

  

  Mexico’s president said admitted the government has so far failed to sell his predecessor’s luxury US$ 130 million plane that he has slammed as a trapping of power and opulence of an out-of-touch ruling elite.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Mexican president openly admits the power of drug lords

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador declared an end to the days of collusion between crime and government, saying in a holiday address there was a time when drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was as powerful as the country's president.

• Monday, December 2nd 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  More clashes with drugs gunmen bring closer Trump's intention to designate the Mexican gangs as terrorists

  

  Clashes between police and suspected cartel gunmen in a northern Mexican town killed 21 people this weekend, authorities said, adding fuel to a debate sparked by US President Donald Trump, who has vowed to designate the gangs as terrorists.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Furious ladies take to the streets of Mexico City on the Day to Eliminate Violence against Women

  

  Demonstrators smashed windows, spray-painted monuments and clashed with riot police on Monday on Mexico City's main avenue to protest Mexican authorities' failure to stop a spiral of violence against women.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Trump ready to help Mexico “wage war” on cartels following massacre of Mormon families

  

  President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered to help Mexico “wage war” on its cartels after three women and six children from an American Mormon community were murdered in an area notorious for drug traffickers.