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Montevideo, May 25th 2025 - 22:58 UTC

Tag: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

  • Friday, May 24th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    ICJ issues ruling acceptable to both Ecuador and Mexico

    “These are precautionary measures, the process is not over,” AMLO argued

    The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, The Netherlands, produced a ruling Thursday that was equally welcomed by both parties in the dispute between Ecuador and Mexico over the police raid at the Embassy in Quito to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought asylum to avoid incarceration after being convicted of corruption.

  • Wednesday, April 17th 2024 - 20:11 UTC

    Celac joins worldwide condemnation of Ecuador's actions against Mexican Embassy

    Xiomara Castro summoned regional leaders to review Ecuador's police raid against the diplomatic mission in breach of international law

    Leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) Tuesday agreed to condemn Ecuador's April 5 storming of the Mexican Embassy in Quito to abduct former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought asylum there after being convicted on corruption charges.

  • Monday, April 8th 2024 - 10:52 UTC

    International community repudiates Ecuador's attack on Mexican Embassy in Quito

    Guterres also called on Ecuador and Mexico to “resolve their differences by peaceful means”

    United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and the governments of many countries in the Americas condemned Ecuador's decision to break into Mexico's Embassy in Quito on Friday to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought asylum in the diplomatic mission as he faced corruption charges.

  • Saturday, April 6th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    Mexican embassy in Quito stormed by police, diplomatic ties with Ecuador severed

    Ecuador's measure was in breach of international law, AMLO stressed

    The Government of Mexico announced it was cutting off all diplomatic ties with Ecuador after local authorities stormed Friday into the Embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorean Vice President Jorge Glas, who has sought asylum in the diplomatic mission.

  • Friday, April 5th 2024 - 10:47 UTC

    Ecuador expels Mexican ambassador over AMLO remarks

    López Obrador hinted that Villavicencio's murder catapulted Daniel Noboa to Ecuador's presidency

    The Government of Ecuador Thursday declared Mexican Ambassador to Quito Raquel Serur Smeke “persona non grata” after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)'s “very unfortunate” remarks regarding the murder of presidential candidate Francisco Villavicencio. The diplomat must now leave the South American country.

  • Saturday, March 30th 2024 - 11:24 UTC

    No diplomatic rift between Argentina and Mexico despite verbal clash between Milei and AMLO

    Mondino and Bárcena agreed that things would not escalate

    Foreign Ministries Diana Mondino of Argentina and Alicia Bárcena of Mexico held a telephone conversation Friday during which they concurred that the recent exchange of epithets between Presidents Javier Milei and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) did not jeopardize the two countries' diplomatic relations, which they agreed to label as “solid.” Bárcena and Mondino thus made it clear that neither nation intended to escalate the dispute.

  • Friday, March 29th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    Petro and AMLO describe Milei in not-quite-friendly words

    I still do not understand how Argentines, being so intelligent, voted for someone who is not accurate,” AMLO wrote on X

    After derogatory remarks against them from Argentina's Javier Milei, Presidents Gustavo Petro of Colombia and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of Mexico also had their say Thursday.

  • Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 15:04 UTC

    Interoceanic train launched in Mexico

    The Panama Canal “is already saturated,” AMLO said

    Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday inaugurated the new interoceanic railroad through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which will cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific and vice versa, and somehow compete with the 80-kilometer Panama Canal, which takes 8 to 10 hours to cross.

  • Saturday, September 9th 2023 - 10:47 UTC

    Mexican president lands in Colombia for talks with Petro

    AMLO and Petro attended the closing of a conference on drugs in Cali

    Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador met in Cali with his Colombian colleague Gustavo Petro on the first day of his official trip to Colombia, it was reported. Both heads of state attended the closing of the three-day Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Drugs.

  • Thursday, August 31st 2023 - 15:47 UTC

    Mexico gearing for a major dispute next June, when the first woman could be elected president

    Xóchitl Gálvez is a 60-year-old computer engineer, trained in MIT and businesswoman

    Mexico's opposition coalition has named an outspoken female senator with indigenous roots as their candidate for the 2024 presidential election, raising the prospect of Mexico having a female president for the first time, when the general election next June.

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