World Apr 08 Candidates spar in Mexico’s first presidential debate ahead of June 2 election In Mexico's first presidential debate ahead of June 2 elections, former Mexico City Mayor and frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum appeared comfortable with her lead, remaining calm amid ex-Senator Xóchitl Gálvez's personal attacks.
World Mar 01 Mexico almost certain to elect its first woman president as campaigning begins Campaigning formally starts on Friday for the biggest election in Mexico's history. Voters will choose the country's president, along with the 628 seats in Congress.
World Feb 05 El Salvador’s Bukele appears to win reelection, but vote count issues delay results A jubilant Bukele declared a historic margin of victory even before electoral authorities released the first preliminary figures.
World Feb 04 El Salvador votes in elections with self-described ‘world’s coolest dictator’ likely to win Salvadorans are voting Sunday in presidential and legislative elections that experts say are largely about the tradeoff between security and democracy. With soaring approval ratings and virtually no competition, Nayib Bukele is almost certainly headed for a second term as president.
World Jan 31 El Salvador vice president acknowledges mistakes in war on gangs but says country is ‘not a police state’ Félix Ulloa, temporarily on leave as El Salvador's vice president while he runs for reelection alongside Nayib Bukele, has denied accusations that their administration has made undemocratic moves to consolidate power.
World Dec 31 Mexico, Venezuela resume repatriation flights amid U.S. pressure to curb migration Mexico and Venezuela announced Saturday that they have restarted repatriation flights of Venezuelans migrants in Mexico, the latest move by countries in the region to take on a flood of people traveling north to the United States.
World Nov 14 Mexican government sends conflicting messages over death of LGBTQ+ magistrate Baena and their partner had already received death threats and hateful messages and had protection from state security, prompting many across the country Monday to call their death a hate crime.
World Nov 14 After a Mexican LGBTQ+ magistrate was found dead, thousands in Mexico City marched for justice Jesús Ociel Baena was the first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial post in Mexico, becoming a magistrate in state electoral court, and broke through other barriers in a country where LGBTQ+ people are often targeted with violence.
World Oct 30 Death toll from Hurricane Otis hits 48 with 36 missing as search and recovery continues Mexican authorities have raised the toll to 48 dead from Hurricane Otis, days after the fierce Category 5 storm struck the country’s southern Pacific coast and the tourist city of Acapulco.
World Oct 29 Mexico officials raise death toll from Otis to 48, dozens missing as search efforts continue At least 48 people died when Category 5 Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, most of them in Acapulco, Mexican authorities said Sunday as the death toll continued to climb and families buried loved ones.