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Harris turns focus to Mexico on trip to address migration

By Alexandra Jaffe, Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris is closing out her first foreign trip Tuesday with a visit to Mexico and a meeting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a key but complicated ally in the Biden administration's efforts to curb the spike…

Mexico president appears to hold key majority in elections

By Christopher Sherman, María Verza, Associated Press

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's party and its allies appeared poised to maintain their majority in Mexico's lower chamber of the congress. But initial election results showed they fell short of a supermajority.

Mexican president draws U.S. into dispute over governor

By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

Despite diplomatic protocols, and Mexico's own confidentiality laws, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador showed a copy of a letter sent by the U.S. Embassy's legal attaché asking for information on Garcia Cabeza de Vaca as part of a U.S. money-laundering…

WATCH: Biden meets with Mexican president amid migration issues

By Josh Boak, Mark Stevenson, Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

Mexico's president says he intends to propose to Biden a new Bracero-style immigrant labor program that could bring 600,000 to 800,000 Mexican and Central American immigrants a year to work legally in the U.S.

Mexico president warns against false claims of open U.S. doors

By Associated Press

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador also cited the recent massacre of 19 people, including at least 14 Guatemalan migrants, near the U.S. border, as justification for his policy of stopping Central American migrants at Mexico's southern border.

Mexican president tests positive for COVID-19

By Christopher Sherman, Associated Press

Mexico's director of epidemiology, said the 67-year-old had a "light" case of COVID-19 and was "isolating at home." Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero says he's still working as president.

Mexico says U.S. ‘fabricated’ drug trafficking accusations, released case files

By Mark Sherman, Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration "fabricated" drug trafficking accusations against his country's former defense minister and his government.

WATCH: Mexico’s president Lopez Obrador says country is ‘making progress’ against COVID-19

By Associated Press

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador painted an upbeat picture of how Mexico is coping with the coronavirus and the global recession on Tuesday during his address to the United Nations General Assembly.

Mexico president regrets protester killing, wants justice

By Associated Press

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he regrets the killing of a woman and the wounding of her husband in a clash with National Guard troops over water in the northern state of Chihuahua.

Mexico struggles with U.S. water debt, suggests U.N. audit

By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

Mexico has fallen behind in the amount of water it must send north from its dams under a 1944 treaty, and is struggling to make up the shortfall by the Oct. 24 deadline.