Mexican president says to meet Guatemalan president-elect on Friday
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he will meet Guatemalan President-elect Alejandro Giammattei in the Mexican city of Merida on Friday.
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Water wars: Indigenous locals go up against Mexico City airport
MEXICO CITY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For most of his life, Filiberto Mena Laiza had worked the earth, growing carrots, cilantro, beans and other crops in what was once rich agricultural land some 50km north of Mexico City.
Trump asylum lockdown turns up heat on tiny Mexican migrant agency
Mexico's tiny asylum agency is already overwhelmed with applicants who are abandoning the American dream because of U.S. President Donald Trump's hardline immigration measures.
Bar attack kills five in Mexican president's home state before independence salute
Five people were shot dead in a bar in the home state of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador a few hours before he was due to lead his first independence day celebrations on Sunday night.
Mexico amnesty law eyes reprieve for minor drug offenses, abortions
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has sent a draft law to Congress that aims to grant amnesty to people serving jail time for lesser offenses, including abortion and possession of small amounts of drugs, the government said on Sunday.
Newmont Goldcorp temporarily suspends operations at Peñasquito gold mine in Mexico
Newmont Goldcorp said on Sunday it has temporarily suspended operations at the Peñasquito gold mine in Mexico after the resumption of a previously lifted blockade by a trucking contractor and some members of the Cedros community.
Mexico targets former attorney general in probe of missing students case
Mexican prosecutors will target a former attorney general and his top aides in their investigation into the handling of a controversial probe into the disappearance five years ago of 43 student teachers, a government official said on Sunday.
After U.S. court ruling, Honduran newlyweds among migrants clinging to asylum dream
Led by a dream of marrying on U.S. soil, a young Honduran couple traveled thousands of miles from their home in the port city of La Ceiba, narrowly escaping a kidnapping in Mexico before seeking asylum across the border in Texas.
S&P says Mexican government's 2020 growth forecast likely too optimistic
S&P Global Ratings said on Friday that the Mexican government's 2020 economic growth forecast of 1.5% to 2.5% likely is too optimistic.
Mexico's Pemex offers to prepay chunk of $14.7 billion in bonds
Mexico's Pemex said on Thursday it had launched a tender offer to prepay around a third of $14.7 billion in bonds maturing between 2020-2023, in President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's latest effort to shore up the state oil firm.
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Lawmaker accuses Justice Department of blocking whistleblower disclosure
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee chairman on Thursday accused the Justice Department of blocking intelligence officials from giving Congress a whistleblower complaint reported to involve communications between President Donald Trump and a foreign leader.