Christine Murray

Wednesday, 24 May, 2023

Thursday, 11 May, 2023

News in-depthUS immigration

US and Mexico braced for border ‘chaos’ with end of Title 42 migration rule

Expiration of pandemic-era immigration restrictions threatens to exacerbate a crisis that could last weeks

Tuesday, 9 May, 2023

News in-depthMexico

Mexico’s president doubles down ahead of tense succession

Quick-fire move to pass 20 laws seen as attempt to cement Amlo’s legacy

Friday, 28 April, 2023

Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies

Tiendas 3B sells hard discount retail to brand-loving Mexicans

An American executive has taken a model pioneered by Germany’s Aldi and Lidl to Latin America

Wednesday, 19 April, 2023

Mexican politics

Mexico’s leader criticises move to block military control of National Guard

Supreme court ruling halts López Obrador’s expansion of armed forces’ role

Friday, 14 April, 2023

Drug trafficking

US charges sons of ‘El Chapo’ in sweeping fentanyl cartel case

Prosecutors accuse ‘Chapitos’ along with defendants in China of building cross-border trafficking operation in deadly drug

Wednesday, 5 April, 2023

Iberdrola SA

Mexico hails ‘new nationalisation’ as Iberdrola sells $6bn of power assets

Spanish group was a target for leftist president López Obrador

Tuesday, 4 April, 2023

Mexico

Mexico’s president seeks help from China’s Xi on deadly fentanyl imports

Plea from Andrés Manuel López Obrador follows pressure from US lawmakers over trafficking of drug across border

Tuesday, 4 April, 2023

News in-depthUS immigration

Fatal fire at migrant centre follows mounting tension at US-Mexico border

Blaze that left 39 dead renews focus on disarray in treatment of asylum seekers

Tuesday, 28 March, 2023

US immigration

At least 40 people dead in fire at Mexico migration detention centre

Incident comes as migration through the country to the US is near its highest level in 20 years

Tuesday, 28 March, 2023

Energy Source

Is the oil price bounce on? Premium

Also in today’s newsletter, a breakthrough for private investment in Mexico’s energy sector

Monday, 20 March, 2023

InterviewFomento Economico Mexicano SAB de CV

LatAm retail group Femsa aims to crack Mexico’s unbanked ‘puzzle’

Network of convenience stores an advantage in country where less than half of adults have a bank account

Wednesday, 15 March, 2023

Taiwan

Taiwan loses diplomatic ally as Honduras confirms link to China

Central American nation was one of Taipei’s last partners in Washington’s backyard

Sunday, 12 March, 2023

News in-depthMexico

US turns up heat on Mexico after cartel kidnappings

Deaths of US citizens and steeply rising fentanyl casualties prompt rising frustration in Washington

Tuesday, 7 March, 2023

News in-depthMexico

Mexico’s peso hits five-year high on interest rates and US benefits

Currency is best performer among major economies this year and analysts expect it to strengthen further

Tuesday, 7 March, 2023

News in-depthEl Salvador

Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison: the jail giving inmates less space than livestock

FT analysis finds 40,000 detainees would have just 0.6 sq metres of cell space each in ‘city of crime’

Tuesday, 28 February, 2023

Americas economy

Tesla to build car plant in Monterrey, says Mexico’s president

López Obrador confirms investment after finalising details with carmaker’s chief executive Elon Musk

Sunday, 26 February, 2023

Mexico

Thousands protest in Mexico against cuts to electoral watchdog

Opposition says the government is putting democracy at risk with attacks on institutions

Thursday, 23 February, 2023

Mexico

Mexico law targets elections watchdog

Measure championed by López Obrador alarms critics who say it threatens democracy

Wednesday, 22 February, 2023

Drug trafficking

Mexico’s former security chief convicted in US of helping cartel smuggle drugs

President hails verdict after jury hears how Genaro García Luna helped Sinaloa clan become ‘FedEx of cocaine’

Thursday, 16 February, 2023

US foreign policy

US jury weighs fate of former Mexican official on trial for taking cartel bribes

Case has exposed the failures of the drug war waged by the US and Mexico

Wednesday, 15 February, 2023

News in-depthWar in Ukraine

‘We are for peace’: Latin America rejects pleas to send weapons to Ukraine

Tradition of non-interventionism prompts region’s leftwing leaders to snub pleas from US and Europe

Monday, 13 February, 2023

Citigroup Inc

Citi nears sale of Mexican bank Banamex despite state interference

Deal could value unit at between $6bn and $8bn, below analysts’ expectations

Friday, 3 February, 2023

Electric vehicles

BMW plans €800mn Mexican EV and battery investment amid subsidies row

German carmaker’s expansion in San Luis Potosí is among largest announced since US Inflation Reduction Act

Tuesday, 31 January, 2023

Corporate bonds

Mexico’s Pemex issues $2bn bond with double-digit yield

Issuance by heavily indebted state-owned oil company comes amid emerging market revival

Mexico and Central America correspondent

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