Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Mexico prepares to launch search for trapped coal miners

Operation to rescue 10 miners will become possible once "97 percent of the water" is extracted from the mine in Agujita town of northern Coahuila state, officials say.

Families fret as Mexico battles to rescue trapped miners

Scores of rescuers race against time to save 10 workers trapped in a flooded coal mine as desperate relatives watch rescue efforts at the site in the northern Coahuila state.

Migrant caravan sets out in Mexico for US

Several thousand migrants set out walking in the rain in southern Mexico, tired of waiting to normalise their status in a region with little work and still far from their ultimate goal of reaching the US.

US downplays spat as Mexico snubs Summit of the Americas

Exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from Americas' summit prompts Mexico's president to skip the event to protest US "hegemony" and "lack of respect for nations."

Lopez Obrador survives Mexico recall vote marked by low turnout

More than 90 percent of Mexicans taking part in President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's recall referendum vote for him to stay in office, according to National Electoral Institute.

Mexicans vote to decide the fate of President Lopez Obrador

The president has faced criticism that government officials and resources have promoted the referendum that will determine if he will continue in office until 2024 or resign.

Over a dozen people killed at clandestine cockfighting ring in Mexico

At least 20 people have been killed in the town of Las Tinajas in Michoacan in what President Lopez Obrador described as "a massacre by one group against another."

Mexico votes in referendum on accountability of ex-presidents

President Lopez Obrador has cast past administrations as deeply corrupt and made combating graft his top priority. At least 40 percent of registered Mexican voters, or some 37 million people, would need to vote for the results to be binding.

Mexicans vote in mid-term polls seen as referendum on president's agenda

All 500 seats in the lower house, 15 state governorships and thousands of local leadership positions are up for grabs, with some 93.5 million Mexicans eligible to vote.

Mexico president promises full investigation after fatal metro accident

At least 24 people died and dozens others were injured on Monday night in the accident, one of the worst ever to strike the Mexico City metro, raising questions about construction and maintenance standards on a network used by millions every day.

Mexico apologises to Mayan people for centuries of ‘terrible’ abuses

The official apology came amid broader commemorations of the 500th anniversary of the 1519-1521 Spanish Conquest of Mexico, and 200 years of Mexico’s 1821 independence from Spain.

Names of femicide victims painted on Mexican National Palace fence

Near the front of the colonial-era building that serves as the president's offices, activists wrote: "Victims of Femicide" in huge letters across the top of the barriers, with the names under.