Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Mexico decides against ban on Chinese-owned TikTok app

Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed "complete freedom" when asked about the Chinese platform during his regular morning news conference, after TikTok's chief executive faced a grilling by U.S. lawmakers last week

Mexican president pushes back on US criticism on violence

Mexican cartels have imported fentanyl precursors under false names or as mislabeled products, with help from inside the regulatory agency. They then process it into fentanyl, press it into counterfeit pills made to look like oxycodone, Xanax or Percocet and smuggle it into the United States

Mexico's popular president reaches out to his base

Despite approval ratings above 60 per cent, the president must leave power at the end of a single six-year mandate, as provided by the constitution

Lack of hugs caused US fentanyl crisis, says Mexico's President Obrador

López Obrador said family values have broken down in the United States because parents don’t let their children live at home long enough. He has also denied that Mexico produces fentanyl

Mexico president rejects U.S. lawmakers' calls for military intervention against cartels

The kidnapping of four Americans - two of whom were killed - in a northern border state intensified calls from Republican lawmakers in Washington to take a tougher line on organized crime.

Mexico has more democracy than US, says President Obrador

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's testy comments came after US officials took note of heated public debate in Mexico over López Obrador's recently approved electoral reforms, which critics allege could weaken Mexico's democracy

Mexican president posts photo of what he claims is an elf

Mexico’s president posted a photo on his social media accounts Saturday showing what he said appeared to be a mythological woodland spirit similar to an elf

Ecuador says trade talks with Mexico at a 'dead end'

Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso said on Sunday that negotiations for his nation to reach a free-trade accord with Mexico are at a "dead end."

Mexico to review jailed drug lord El Chapo's plea to come home

The Sinaloa cartel founder has appealed to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for help due to alleged 'psychological torment' that Guzman says he is suffering in a US prison

Jailed drug kingpin 'El Chapo' sends 'SOS' to Mexico president

'In the six years that Joaquin has been in the United States, he has not seen the sun,' said Jose Refugio Rodriguez, a Mexico-based legal representative of the Sinaloa cartel founder