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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives a media briefing from the National Palace in Mexico City, Oct. 2, 2024, the morning after her inauguration. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexico’s new president promises to resume fight against climate change

By Teresa De Miguel - Associated Press

FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during his daily morning press conference before officially inaugurating the Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) north of Mexico City, March 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico’s populist president held court each morning for 6 years. Now he’s retiring from public life

By Megan Janetsky - Associated Press

The dead body of man, his arm marked with a tattoo of the Virgin of Guadalupe, lies covered on a street in La Costerita neighborhood of Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexican president blames the U.S. for bloodshed in Sinaloa as cartel violence surges

By Eduardo Verdugo - Associated Press

Protesters attempt to break into a room in the Senate as lawmakers weigh the government's proposed judicial reform, which would make judges stand for election, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Mexico’s Senate approves contentious judicial overhaul after protesters storm chamber

By Megan Janetsky - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico’s president says he has put relations with U.S. and Canadian embassies ‘on pause’

By Megan Janetsky - Associated Press

Federal court workers gather as they strike over reforms that would make all judges stand for election in Mexico City, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Protesters against judiciary overhaul plan urge Mexican president to ‘respect democracy’

By Megan Janetsky - Associated Press

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, left, and President Donald Trump give a news conference before signing a joint declaration at the White House in Washington, July 8, 2020. Mexico’s president called Trump “a friend” Friday, July 19, 2024, and said he will write the former U.S. president a letter the next week to warn him against closing the border or blaming migrants for bringing drugs into the U.S. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Mexican president calls Trump ‘a friend,’ says he’ll warn him against closing border

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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 give little detail to address country’s violence in final debate

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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.

Tens of thousands protest against Mexico’s president in the main square of Mexico City

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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)

U.S. and Mexico will boost deportation flights and enforcement to crack down on illegal migration

By Seung Min Kim - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico’s president says he won’t fight drug cartels on U.S. orders, calls it a ‘Mexico First’ policy

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

FILES - This combination of two file photos shows Xochitl Galvez, at left, arriving to register her name as a presidential candidate on July 4, 2023 in Mexico City, and at right, Claudia Sheinbaum at an event that presented her as her party's presidential nominee on Sept. 6, 2023 in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, Files)

Mexico’s presidential candidates promise security or continuity as campaigns officially begin

By Mark Stevenson and Fabiola Sánchez - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Obrador delivers a speech on economic figures, in Mexico City, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico’s president defends disclosing reporter’s phone number, saying the law doesn’t apply to him

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Migrants cross the Rio Grande river to reach the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Mexican officials clear border camp as U.S. pressure mounts to limit migrant crossings

By Valerie Gonzalez - Associated Press

The Aguilar Bastida family, from Venezuela, sit outside the Church of Santa Cruz y La Soledad where migrants camp out in Mexico City, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

U.S. delegation to meet with Mexican government for talks on the surge of migrants at border

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar after arriving at the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) in Zumpango, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Top U.S. delegation meets with Mexico’s president for talks on migrant surge

By Maria Verza and Edger H. Clemente - Associated Press

A resident walks past debris more than two weeks after Hurricane Otis hit Acapulco, Mexico, as a Category 5 storm, Nov. 13, 2023. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023, about the recovery of Acapulco after Hurricane Otis smashed into the resort on Oct. 25, killing 52 people. But some residents still don’t have running water, sewage treatment is still deficient, tons of garbage and debris remain in the streets, and few hotels are fully open. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico’s president predicts full recovery for Acapulco, but residents see difficulties

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FILE - A woman passes in front of photographs of missing persons in front of the Attorney General's office in Mexico City, Dec. 6, 2023. The Mexican government announced Dec. 14, 2023 that its controversial effort to look for people falsely listed as missing has turned up thousands of individuals who had returned to their homes but not notified the authorities. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, Fille)

Mexico’s search for people falsely listed as missing finds some alive, rampant poor record-keeping

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

FILE - Mexico's highest peak and the third highest in North America, Pico de Orizaba, or Citlaltepetl mountain, which is a protected natural area, rises above the morning mist as seen from a Mexican Navy aircraft on a volcano monitoring mission in Mexico, July 23, 2013. Environmentalists say the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is trying to greenwash its legacy by adding dozens of new protected natural areas while simultaneously slashing funding for the environmental protection department. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

More parks, less money: Advocates say Mexico’s new budget doesn’t add up for natural protected areas

By Daniel Shailer - Associated Press

FILE - Soldiers guard the streets while residents take items from local stores after Hurricane Otis ripped through Acapulco, Mexico, Oct. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico’s hurricane reconstruction plans prioritize military barracks, owners left to rebuild hotels

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