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Claudia Sheinbaum has been sworn in as Mexico鈥檚 first female president, riding the enthusiasm over her predecessor鈥檚 social programs but also facing challenges that include stubbornly high levels of violence.
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Going forward, Mexican voters will now elect judges at every level, dramatically restructuring the third branch of government.
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Mexico is poised to amend its constitution this weekend to require all judges to be elected as part of a judicial overhaul championed by the outgoing president but slammed by critics as a blow to the country鈥檚 rule of law.
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The lower house of Mexico鈥檚 Congress has approved contentious legislation that would launch the most sweeping judicial overhaul of the century by requiring all judges to stand for election.
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Mexico鈥檚 president says he has put relations with the United States and Canadian embassies 鈥渙n pause鈥 after the two countries voiced concerns over a proposed controversial judicial overhaul.
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More evidence has emerged that Mexican authorities disposed of the bodies of dissidents in 鈥渄eath flights鈥 during the country's 1965-1990 鈥渄irty war.鈥 Mexico's governmental Truth Commission said in a report Friday that recollections by witnesses and documents leaked over the years describe the chilling last moments of the victims.
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COMMENTARY A generation ago, U.S. cold warrior Henry Kissinger coddled Latin America's right-wing monsters. Today the region's tyrants are left-wing 鈥 and so are their Kissinger-esque enablers.
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The United States managed to arrest Mexico鈥檚 most-wanted drug lord, but Mexican prosecutors 鈥 and the president 鈥 now say they are considering bringing treason charges against those who handed him over.
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The Biden administration declined to pursue a union complaint of labor abuses in Mexico, raising new concerns about offshoring.
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Doctor Hern谩ndez Pacheco has turned her family-run clinic into a safe haven for Haitian migrants, whether they are planning to stay in Mexico or continue the journey north toward the U.S.
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Hurricane Beryl ripped off roofs in Jamaica, jumbled fishing boats in Barbados and damaged or destroyed 95% of homes on a pair of islands in St. Vincent and the Grenadines before rumbling toward the Cayman Islands and taking aim at Mexico鈥檚 Caribbean coast with at least seven dead in its wake.
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The Biden administration's asylum halt that took place June 5 applies took to all nationalities. But Mexicans and those Mexico agrees to take back are most likely to be deported. That includes Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.