Tag: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

• Monday, July 22nd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Murders in Mexico the highest on record in the first six months

  

  Murders in Mexico jumped in the first half of the year to the highest on record, according to official data, underscoring the vast challenges President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador faces in reducing violence in the cartel-ravaged country.

• Thursday, July 4th 2019 - 09:01 UTC

  Mexican police protest and block streets against “militarization” of the force

  

  Hundreds of federal police blocked roads and protested in Mexico City on Wednesday against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's plan to merge them into his new National Guard. The leftist leader is launching the new security force in a bid to fight violent crime fueled by drug trafficking and also curb chronic corruption in the police.

• Wednesday, June 26th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Mexican president denies having ordered troops to detain migrants trying to cross to the United States

  

  Mexico's president vowed on Tuesday to investigate the controversial detention of migrants trying to cross the US border, saying the 15,000 troops he has deployed there have no such orders.

• Thursday, June 13th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Mexico presidency sells its fleet of planes to help finance curbing migration in the south of the country

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday that the sale of the former presidential jet and other aircraft from the last government would help fund efforts to curb migration under a deal struck last week with Washington.

• Friday, June 7th 2019 - 08:42 UTC

  Mexican soldiers blocking migrants as they cross the border from Guatemala

  

  Mexican soldiers, armed police and migration officials blocked hundreds of migrants after they crossed the border from Guatemala in a caravan into southern Mexico, and detained dozens of them, a witness from a migrant aid group and an official said.

• Tuesday, June 4th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Mexico and US begin talks to defue illegal inmmigration controversy

  

  Fighting to stave off punitive tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, a senior Mexican delegation had started high level talks on Monday in Washington, where it will be pushed to do more to hold back Central American migrants.

• Monday, June 3rd 2019 - 09:01 UTC

  Lopez Obrador popularity stands solid: wins in two state elections

  

  Mexico's president is expected to score comfortable wins at Sunday's state elections in the first test of his popularity since taking office, with exit polls showing his party taking both governorships up for grabs. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's party was tipped for victory in the central state of Puebla and the northern state of Baja California, despite a weak economy, rampant violence and troubled relations with his US counterpart Donald Trump.

• Saturday, June 1st 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Markets and US businesses lobbies react negatively to Trump's tariffs on Mexican imports

  

  Mexico's president has insisted his government will not be provoked after President Donald Trump announced escalating tariffs on all goods unless Mexico curbed illegal migration. Andrés Manuel López Obrador described Mr Trump's slogan “America First” as a fallacy and said universal justice was more important than borders.

• Monday, May 6th 2019 - 09:09 UTC

  Mexicans march against president Lopez Obrador saying “You're not Robin Hood”

  

  Several thousand people marched through Mexico City on Sunday to demand the resignation of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the first major protest against the leftist leader in the capital since he took office five months ago.

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 08:49 UTC

  Mexican president sends army and navy reinforcements to contain killings in Veracruz state

  

  Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he would reinforce army and navy troops in Veracruz State, three days after a child was among 13 people killed in a mass shooting there.