Xochitl Galvez considers reviving Texcoco Airport shut down by AMLO

Mexico’s presidential candidate for the main opposition coalition, Xochitl Galvez, said Monday that she’s crunching numbers to determine whether to complete the project for an international Mexico City airport that was scrapped by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in favor of a military-built facility. Days after the formal launch of her campaign, Galvez said […]

Border Patrol officers shot down armed bandit robbing migrants

Border patrol agents in California shot and killed a bandit who was robbing other migrants as they crossed into the U.S. from Mexico. Multiple U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources confirmed that a criminal migrant who crossed the border in the San Diego sector was shot and killed by a member of the Border Patrol’s […]

Is AMLO’s influence looming over presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum?

Mexico kicked off its official presidential campaign season Friday, with leading candidates taking center stage as popular outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s overwhelming influence hangs over the country’s future. Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum is the comfortable frontrunner in the June 2 election: She held a 17-point lead over top opposition candidate Xochitl […]

The PT candidate for Mayor of Atoyac de Álvarez is murdered in Guerrero

Alfredo González Díaz, a candidate of the Labor Party (PT), for the mayor’s office of Atoyac de Álvarez, in Guerrero, was shot dead, the Guerrero State Prosecutor’s Office reported Sunday, March 3, 2024. The Attorney General’s Office of the State of Guerrero reports that it initiated an investigation against those responsible for the crime of […]

4 soldiers killed in an ‘ambush’ in Michoacan, Mexico

An improvised explosive device killed at least four soldiers in what President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday was a “trap” likely set by a drug cartel. The soldiers were killed Thursday, Feb. 29, on the outskirts of the city of Aguililla in the embattled Mexican state of Michoacán, López Obrador said in a weekly […]

Ecuador asks Mexico’s permission to enter the embassy and arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas

Ecuador has requested Mexico’s permission to enter that country’s embassy in Quito and arrest former Ecuadorean Vice-President Jorge Glas, the Ecuadorean Foreign Ministry said on Friday, March 1st. Glas, convicted twice for corruption, asked Mexico for political asylum in December, arguing he is being persecuted by the attorney general’s office. “We confirm that the Foreign […]