Tag: Lopez Obrador

• Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 08:34 UTC

  Record violence and killings in Mexico in the first quarter: 8.943 murders

  

  Violence in Mexico hit new heights in the first quarter of 2019, with 8,493 murders recorded from January to March, according to official figures. According to the Executive Secretariat of the Public Security National System, that number represents a 9.6% rise on the same period in 2018.

• Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Lopez Obrador urges Spain and the Vatican to apologize for abuses during the conquest; Madrid strongly rejects

  

  The Mexican president has sent a letter to Spain's King Felipe VI and Pope Francis urging them to apologize for human rights abuses committed during the conquest of the region. Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the indigenous peoples of Mexico had been the victims of massacres.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 09:23 UTC

  Mexico new government first budget committed “to fiscal and financial discipline”

  

  Mexico’s new government avoided major surprises in its closely watched first budget, sticking to promises made to investors who have been jittery about plans for Latin America’s No. 2 economy.

• Thursday, June 28th 2018 - 10:11 UTC

  López Obrador closes his campaign with an anticipated victory

  

  The candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador closed his electoral campaign last Wednesday ahead the presidential elections on Sunday filling the largest stadium in the world on a working day. The only leftist candidate steals public attention in Mexico and leads the polls with an anti-system and reforming discourse.

• Friday, April 20th 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Lopez Obrador closer to the Mexican presidency: 22 percentage points ahead of his closest rival

  

  Mexico’s frontrunner has just clocked a new milestone in his race toward the presidency, distancing himself from his rivals by 22 percentage points in a new poll ahead of the July 1 election.