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Mexican opposition supporters hold up a flag during a rally, protesting what they claim are attempts by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to divide the country, in the Zocalo, Mexico City, Sunday, May 19, 2024. Mexico is set to hold general elections June 2.

Mexico presidential candidates offer little detail to address country’s violence in final debate

Less than two weeks from Mexico’s national elections, opposition presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez is trying to close the gap between herself and governing party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum.

FILE - Migrants begin their journey north in hopes of reaching the U.S. border, in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, April 23, 2023. Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo met Friday, May 17, 2024, in this Mexican border city to tackle issues of shared interest, foremost among them immigration. (AP Photo/Edgar Hernandez Clemente, File)

Mexican and Guatemalan presidents meet at border to discuss migration, security and development

FILE - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, right, and then Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, greet supporters at a rally in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, July 1, 2019. Sheinbaum, Mexico’s ruling party presidential candidate, slipped up during a campaign speech Friday, May 10, 2024, and said López Obrador was motivated by “personal ambition,” but later acknowledged the phrase “could be misinterpreted.” In Mexico it is used to describe a desire for personal economic gain. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexico’s ruling party presidential candidate slips, says outgoing leader led by ‘personal ambition’

Women carry digging tools at the site where their search team said they found a clandestine crematorium in Tlahuac, on the edge of Mexico City, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. At left is Jacqueline Palmeros who has been searching for her disappeared daughter since 2020 in Mexico City, and at right is María de Jesús Soria whose daughter disappeared in Veracruz in 2016, and whose remains were turned over to her in 2022. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Mexico’s president accuses press and volunteer searchers for missing people of ‘necrophilia’

In this image made from video, Mexico's police officers stand guard at the Ensenada station in Ensenada, Mexico, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Mexican authorities said Thursday they have found tents and questioned a few people in the case of two Australians and an American who went missing over the weekend in the Pacific coast state of Baja California. (AP Photo)

Mexican officials say 3 bodies recovered in Baja California during search for 3 missing foreigners

Mexico opposition presidential candidate Gálvez tries to close gap between herself and governing party candidate

Mexico opposition presidential candidate Gálvez tries to close gap between herself and governing party candidate

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Mexican police carry out questionings in case of two Australians and American missing in Baja

Mexico accuses Ecuador of violating international law by storming Mexican embassy in Quito

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Wave of electoral violence in southern Mexico claims 14 lives in matter of days

Officials in Mexico say at least 14 people have been killed in three different attacks against political candidates in recent days the violence-torn southern state of Chiapas.

Mass shooting causes deaths in crime-ridden township on southern edge of Mexico City, officials say

Authorities in Mexico say a mass shooting in a mountain township beset by crime just south of Mexico City resulted in several deaths.

In this image made from video, Mexican security forces frisk men at a checkpoint in Ensenada, Mexico, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Mexican authorities said Thursday they have found tents and questioned a few people in the case of two Australians and an American who went missing over the weekend in the Pacific coast state of Baja California. (AP Photo)

Mexican cops find tents, question people in the case of 2 Australians, 1 American missing in Baja

Mexican authorities have found tents and questioned three people in the case of two Australians and an American who went missing over the weekend in the Pacific coast state of Baja California.

A member of the Mexico City Search Commission uses a ground-penetrating radar in an area where volunteers said they have found a clandestine crematorium in Tlahuac, on the edge of Mexico City, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Ceci Flores, a leader of one of the groups of so-called "searching mothers" from northern Mexico, announced late Tuesday that her team had found bones around clandestine burial pits and ID cards, and prosecutors said they were investigating to determine the nature of the remains. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

After hunt for clandestine crematorium in Mexico City, police say bones found were ‘animal origin’

Volunteers have searched on the fringes of Mexico City for what they thought could be a clandestine crematorium.

President Joe Biden waves as he walks out of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024, before departing on a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US and Mexico will boost deportation flights and enforcement to crack down on illegal migration

The White House says teamwork between the U.S. and Mexico to crack down on illegal migration is paying off.

Luxury jewelry maker Cartier doesn’t give stuff away, but they pretty much did for one man in Mexico

Luxury jewelry maker Cartier isn’t known for giving stuff away, but in the case of one Mexican man, they pretty much did.

FILE - Supporters of former Vice President Jorge Glas cheer after an Ecuadorian court of justice declared that his arrest inside Mexico's embassy was illegal, in Quito, Ecuador, April 12, 2024. Ecuador announced on Monday, April 29, that it is suing Mexico before the International Court of Justice for granting political asylum to Glas who was later imprisoned after a break-in at the country's embassy in Quito, triggering the rupture of diplomatic relations between Ecuador and Mexico. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)

Ecuador files complaint against Mexico at top UN court in spat over embassy raid

Ecuador has filed a complaint at the top U.N. court over what it called Mexico’s illegal decision to grant political asylum to a former Ecuadorian vice president, which led to Ecuador’s highly criticized raid on the Mexican Embassy earlier this month.

President Joe Biden waves as he walks out of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024, before departing on a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador discuss migration in latest call

President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, spoke on Sunday about cooperating on migration policy.

FILE - A woman holds a banner reading in Spanish, "Legal, safe, and free abortion" as abortion rights protesters demonstrate in front of the National Congress on the "Day for Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean," in Mexico City, Sept. 28, 2020. Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that national laws prohibiting abortions are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

A woman might win the presidency of Mexico. What could that mean for abortion rights?

If a woman wins Mexico’s presidency during the June 2 elections, would she rule with gender in mind?

FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, April 15, 2024. Lopez Obrador said Thursday, April 25, 2024, that the country’s violent criminal gangs and drug cartels are essentially “respectful people” who “respect the citizenry” and most just kill each other. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexican president claims that criminal groups are ‘respectful’ and ‘respect the citizenry’

Mexico’s president says the country’s violent criminal gangs and drug cartels are essentially “respectful people” who “respect the citizenry” and mostly just kill each other.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pamela Melroy attend a press conference at the U.S. ambassador's residence, in Mexico City, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Nelson and Melroy, both former astronauts, spent two hours chatting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Tuesday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

NASA leaders discuss global challenges, solutions with Mexico president, lawmakers and students

In a frequently tense relationship often defined by a shared border, the United States sent two officials with a different perspective to Mexico this week for a bit of space diplomacy.

FILE - Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during her opening campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City, March 1, 2024. If elected, Sheinbaum would be Mexico's first leader with a Jewish background in a country that’s home to nearly 100 million Catholics. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico’s likely next president would be its first leader with a Jewish background

By mid-2024, Claudia Sheinbaum will most likely become Mexico’s first female president. She would also be its first leader with a Jewish background in a country that’s home to nearly 100 million Catholics.

Mexican families searching for missing relatives unite to draw attention to their plight

Dozens of women and men have searched a garbage dump and other sites outside Mexico’s capital for missing loved ones without the protection of authorities.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

2 mayoral candidates killed in Mexico, bringing the number slain so far to 17

Two mayoral candidates in Mexico have been killed, bringing to 17 the number of contenders slain in the lead-up to the June 2 elections.

FILE - Rogelio Jiménez Pons, director of Fonatur, points to photos of a planned train through the Yucatan Peninsula, during an interview in Mexico City, March 18, 2019. Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is in a rush to finish the big legislative and building projects he promised before his term ends in September 2024, chief among the projects are railway lines, like the Mayan Train. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico’s president is getting a little sloppy in the rush to finish projects before his term ends

Mexico’s president is in a rush to finish the big projects he promised before his term ends in September, and experts say officials are getting a bit sloppy amid all the haste.

People stand outside the Venezuelan embassy in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered the closure of his country's embassy and consulates in Ecuador on Tuesday in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Venezuela closes its embassy in Ecuador to protest the police raid on the Mexican Embassy there

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the closure of his country’s embassy and consulates in Ecuador in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito.

People protest outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in Mexico City, Saturday, April 6, 2024. Mexico’s government has severed diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former Ecuadorian vice president. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Mexico wants UN to suspend Ecuador over its police raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito

Mexico’s president says his country wants the United Nations to suspend Ecuador from the world body as part of a complaint to the top U.N. court over Ecuador’s police raid last week on the Mexican embassy in Quito.

FILE - A dog stands on cracked, exposed banks of the Miguel Aleman dam in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Thursday, March 14, 2024. Around this country of nearly 130 million, drought is draining reservoirs dry and creating severe water shortages. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexican authorities stop water extraction from reservoir that’s home to upscale lakeside community

Struggling to deal with a severe drought, water authorities in central Mexico have decided to stop taking water from a rapidly emptying reservoir adjoining an upscale lakeside community.

FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arrives to start his daily, morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, March 1, 2024. Lopez Obrador commented on the country's first presidential debate ahead of the June election, expressing anger on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, that debate moderators posed questions about corruption and problems with the education and healthcare systems, issues he says he has resolved. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico’s outgoing leader is unhappy with the first presidential debate

Mexico’s president is expressing dissatisfaction with the country’s first presidential debate ahead of the June election.

A supporter of former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas protests as a military vehicle transports him from the detention center he was held following his arrest at the Mexican Embassy in Quito Ecuador, Saturday, April 6, 2024. Glas, who held the vice presidency of Ecuador between 2013 and 2018, was convicted of corruption and had been taking refuge in the embassy since December. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Mexico and Ecuador’s governments had been feuding before police broke into the Mexican Embassy

A spat between Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spiraled into a full-blown diplomatic crisis when Ecuadorian police raided Mexico’s embassy Friday night.

Police guard vehicles that drove into the Mexican embassy in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, April 5, 2024. Ecuadorian police officers forcibly broke into the embassy where former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas was holed up, just hours after the Mexican government had granted him political asylum. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Mexico severs diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police storm its embassy to arrest politician

It comes after Ecuadorian police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former Ecuadorian vice president who had sought political asylum.

A car with diplomatic plates leaves the Mexican embassy, in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, April 5, 2024. Ecuador on Thursday declared Mexico's ambassador to Quito persona non grata due to recent statements made by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador regarding Ecuador's 2023 presidential elections. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Mexican president wanted to lead Latin America, but reality and his own rhetoric got in the way

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018 hoping to recover Mexico’s old reputation as the diplomatic leader of Latin America.

Ecuador declares Mexican ambassador persona non grata and says she will leave ‘shortly’

Ecuador has declared Mexico’s ambassador to Quito persona non grata over recent statements made by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and says she will be leaving the country “shortly.”

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, right, and Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, greet supporters at a rally in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, July 1, 2019. Now the leading presidential candidate in the upcoming June 2, 2024 election, Sheinbaum said that she believes in science, technology and renewable energy but also has said that if she wins she would continue increasing power generation by state-owned companies, which often run power plants with oil and coal. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexico’s likely next president is a scientist. Politics has her mostly quiet on climate threats

Sea-level rise and increasingly ferocious storms are eroding thousands of miles of Mexico’s coastline.

Mexico’s president mourns local candidate killed shortly after starting her campaign

Mexico’s president says he is mourning a mayoral candidate killed the day before, just hours after she requested protection and started campaigning.

Argentina's President Javier Milei talks during the International Economic Forum of the Americas, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina’s Milei trades barbs with Mexican and Colombian leaders, ratcheting up tensions

Simmering spats between Latin American populist leaders have intensified in the past days, with Argentina’s President Javier Milei needling his leftist counterparts in Mexico and Colombia.

A migrant from Maracaibo, Venezuela, sits on a railroad track lined by makeshift tents where migrants take refuge in Mexico City, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuelans are increasingly stuck in Mexico, explaining drop in illegal crossings to US

An immigration crackdown in Mexico has hit Venezuelans especially hard. The development highlights how much the U.S. depends on Mexico to control migration.

FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference, decorated with an image of Francisco "Pancho" Villa, a general in the Mexican Revolution, at the National Palace in Mexico City, Feb. 28, 2023. Mexico’s president praised Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, for his 1916 attack on Columbus, New Mexico, a raid that killed 18 Americans, mostly civilians. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexican president praises Pancho Villa for his 1916 attack on Columbus, New Mexico, that killed 18

Mexico’s president is praising Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa for his 1916 attack on Columbus, New Mexico.

A coloring book featuring Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is for sale outside the presidential palace in Mexico City, Thursday, March 14, 2024. Despite not being eligible to run for reelection in the upcoming June 2 presidential vote, López Obrador looms larger than any of the candidates competing for the helm of Mexico’s government. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Hats, T-shirts and dolls reflect outgoing Mexican president’s outsized presence in upcoming election

Souvenirs bearing the image of 70-year-old Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sell like T-shirts at a Taylor Swift concert.

FILE - An attacker lies dead on his back in the parking lot of a convenience store as a police investigator uses a measuring wheel while collecting evidence from a crime scene where a municipal policeman was shot dead, in Celaya, Mexico, Feb. 28, 2024. The policeman had been driving his wife to work when cartel gunmen opened fire on their car. The policeman killed one attacker before dying. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexico’s most dangerous city for police refuses to give up or negotiate with cartels

Welcome to what might be the most dangerous place to be a police officer in North America. At least 34 officers have been killed in the line of duty in the Mexican city of Celaya in the last three years.