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  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    Mexico’s comptroller backtracks on audit of scrapped airport project

    Unusual U-turn on finding came after criticism from president López Obrador

  • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
    Mexico
    Mexico’s sexual misconduct scandals engulf president’s party

    Accusations against veteran politician Félix Salgado Macedonio cause widespread outrage

  • Monday, 22 February, 2021
    Global InsightMichael Stott
    Alberto Fernández, Latin America’s unlikely leader

    Undeterred by dire economy, Argentina’s president seeks bigger regional role

  • Monday, 15 February, 2021
    News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact
    Mexico’s investment drought holds back recovery from pandemic

    Electricity sector rule change is latest in series of investor-unfriendly decisions

  • Monday, 8 February, 2021
    Global InsightJude Webber
    López Obrador’s pandemic optimism falls flat after he catches Covid-19

    Populist Mexican president under fire for handling of health crisis

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Mexico’s Covid-sceptic president tests positive

    Andrés Manuel López Obrador met business leaders and toured country before announcing infection

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Jude Webber
    A power outage dims climate hopes in Mexico

    President López Obrador’s championing of fossil fuels has short-circuited the shift to renewable energy

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Mexico
    Joe Biden could find Mexico a truculent neighbour

    Andrés Manuel López Obrador learned to live with Trump in return for being left alone. That looks set to change

  • Saturday, 16 January, 2021
    Mexico
    US threatens to end co-operation with Mexico on criminal cases

    Case of former defence minister accused of cartel ties raises tensions ahead of Biden inauguration

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  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Mexico
    Mexico clears ex-defence minister accused by US of cartel ties

    López Obrador tones down law that would have hampered operations of American anti-narcotics agents

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    News in-depthMexico
    Populist Amlo’s tight grip on Mexico finances holds back Covid stimulus

    López Obrador loathe to spend more despite gloomy growth forecast

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    Mexico
    Mexico weighs bill that threatens narcotics partnership with US

    Washington ‘troubled’ by legislation that could limit foreign agents operating on Mexican soil

  • Sunday, 6 December, 2020
    Milena Ang
    López Obrador is turning Mexico into a militarised state

    The release of an arrested general is only the president’s latest effort to appease the army

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    Mexico
    US drug charges dropped against Mexico’s former defence minister

    Country’s president thanks Trump administration for abandoning case against Salvador Cienfuegos

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    Global InsightJude Webber
    Arrest of Mexican general in US shakes López Obrador at home and abroad

    Detention underlines Washington’s lack of trust and puts into question president’s reliance on military

  • Wednesday, 21 October, 2020
    Jude Webber
    Mexican women never really left the 1950s

    Covid-19 has exacerbated gender inequality in a country where it was already rife

  • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
    Mexico
    López Obrador faces pension funds’ ire with commissions cut plan

    Legislation is part of a planned overhaul of Mexico’s retirement system

  • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
    Mexico
    Mexico clamps down on private players in energy sector

    Latest attempt by government of President López Obrador to protect state oil and utilities companies

  • Sunday, 4 October, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    López Obrador becomes Latin America’s new strongman

    The Mexican leader is revealing himself as an authoritarian populist

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    Mexico
    Mexico’s Supreme Court approves referendum on presidential trials

    Decision follows pressure from president López Obrador and provokes concern over rule of law

  • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
    Mexico
    Mexico’s populist president faces backlash from the people

    Protest camps set up in central Mexico City as dissatisfaction with López Obrador grows

  • Tuesday, 15 September, 2020
    Mexico
    Mexico’s president wants vote on trying his predecessors

    López Obrador says the people should decide whether to hold former leaders to account

  • Tuesday, 15 September, 2020
    News in-depthMexico
    Plane raffle shows healthcare is a lottery in Mexico

    López Obrador wants to fund hospital improvements through presidential aircraft stunt

  • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
    Mexico
    López Obrador’s frugality drive takes toll on civil servants

    President urges people to shun consumerism as coronavirus deepens economic woes

  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    Latin America
    Brazil’s and Mexico’s presidents are both ‘wrecking balls’

    Their countries face the worst economic collapse in a century but there is hope yet

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