Tag: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

• 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.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Fernandez with Lopez Obrador, “satisfied in meeting with someone who thinks so similarly to me”

  

  Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernández met with his Mexican soon-to-be counterpart on Monday seeking to boost bilateral and regional cooperation in his first foreign trip since winning election last month.

• Monday, November 4th 2019 - 19:32 UTC

  Fernández's government “won't change” its vision regarding Venezuela for debt renegotiation

  

  The Peronist Felipe Solá, one of the candidates for minister of foreign affairs in the government of the president-elect of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, said Monday that the next administration, to renegotiate the debt, will not change its vision regarding Venezuela.

• Saturday, October 19th 2019 - 09:02 UTC

  Who runs the country? Drug cartels outshoot Mexican military who back down on presidential orders

  

  Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador struggled on Friday to explain his government's capitulation to organized crime after Mexican authorities buckled in the face of an armed campaign of terror and released drug kingpin Ovidio Guzmán López just hours after capturing him.

• Thursday, October 10th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Mexico urged to implement labor reform to help speed ratification of the new North American free trade deal

  

  The leader of a U.S. congressional delegation to Mexico said that Mexico must take more concrete steps to implement its labor reform, after a trip aimed at speeding up ratification of the new North American free trade deal.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  Mexico does not seek control of Zama, the country's major oilfield discovery in decades

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that his government is not seeking to take control of the Zama oilfield discovery, which is currently operated by a private consortium led by U.S.-based Talos Energy. The statement follows on a report from Reuters earlier in the week saying that Mexico’s national oil company, Pemex, wants to take control of Zama from Talos.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Mexican president jokes about his predecessor's luxurious Boeing Dreamliner: “not even Trump has one like it”

  

  The luxury presidential plane that whisked Mexico’s former leader around the world but is now for sale should tempt Donald Trump to open his wallet, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador joked on Friday.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Lopez Obrador prepared to go after his (corrupt) predecessors and their administrations

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the public should have the right to choose whether ex-presidents should face trial once a bill has passed Congress making it easier to hold referendums.

• Friday, August 30th 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  Mexican president claims he was spied with a “sophisticated camera”, but downplays the situation, “I have nothing to hide”

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday a “sophisticated camera” had been found in his offices, but added that he was unconcerned because he has nothing to hide.

• Monday, August 12th 2019 - 07:07 UTC

  US identifies 17 Latin American countries as major drug transit and producing areas

  

  President Donald Trump has warned he may take action against Mexico if it doesn't do more against drug trafficking. México is among the 22 major drug transit and drug-producing countries identified in a presidential memorandum released Thursday night by the White House.