Updated: Jesuit priests killed by gunmen in church in northern Mexico
Updated: 3pm (AEST)Mexico City, MexicoAP Two elderly Jesuit priests were killed inside a church where a man pursued by gunmen apparently sought refuge in a remote mountainous area of northern Mexico, the religious order’s Mexican branch announced Tuesday. Javier Campos Morales, 79, and Joaquín César Mora Salazar, 80, were slain Monday inside the church in […]
Overwhelming majority of Mexicans back President to stay in power
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters About 90 per cent of Mexicans voting in an unprecedented recall election on Sunday backed President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to stay in office, underlining his domination of the political agenda, even though turnout was at the lower end of forecasts. Between 90.3 per cent and 91.9 per cent of voters […]
Press violence in Mexico skyrockets under current administration – report
Mexico City Reuters Violence against the press in Mexico rose to unprecedented levels in the first half of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s administration, up 85 per cent from the first half of his predecessor’s term, according to a report published on Tuesday. The report comes as Mexico faces a streak of journalist killings that […]
Mexican reporters plan nationwide protests over journalist killings
Mexico CityReuters Mexican journalists on Tuesday were set to start nationwide protests in 28 cities and towns to denounce the recent murders of three reporters, demanding an end to impunity that has often characterised the killings of their colleagues. The planned protests follow the murder of seasoned journalist Lourdes Maldonado on Sunday, some three years […]
Murders in Mexico fall 3.6 per cent in 2021, but femicides rise
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Murders in Mexico slightly dropped in 2021, falling 3.6 per cent from the previous year, though femicides rose, according to preliminary government data released on Thursday. The drop in murders is a win for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office in late 2018 pledging to bring down record levels of […]
Migrants denounce Mexico’s crackdown amid bilateral talks in Washington
Tapachula, MexicoReuters US-bound migrants, mostly from Central America and the Caribbean, said on Thursday that a Mexican government crackdown was keeping them “prisoner” in the south of the country. The migrant comments contrasted with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s promises of humane treatment ahead of Thursday’s high-level meeting between Mexican and US officials in […]
Mexican President asks Indigenous for forgiveness over Spanish conquest
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday asked the country’s Indigenous Mexica peoples for forgiveness for the abuses inflicted on them during the bloody 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire. Lopez Obrador spoke in front of a large replica temple built to commemorate 500 years since the fall of the […]
Ranks of Mexican poor swell to reach nearly half the population
Mexico CityReuters Mexico’s poverty rate grew to nearly 44 per cent at the end of last year, government data released on Thursday showed, worsened by an economic slump as the coronavirus pandemic led to steep budget cuts, business closures and layoffs. Some 3.8 million more Mexicans fell below the official poverty line in 2020 to […]
Mexico holds referendum on whether to probe ex-presidents
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexicans on Sunday began to vote on whether to investigate five of the country’s former leaders in a referendum championed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, amid criticism that the move is a political stunt and turnout could be low. Lopez Obrador has cast past administrations as deeply corrupt and made combating […]
Mexicans vote in midterm elections seen as referendum on President
Cuaxomulco, Mexico Reuters Voting drew to a close on Sunday as Mexicans chose a new lower house of Congress, state governors and local lawmakers, in a race seen as a referendum on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s policies and shakeup of Mexico’s institutions. All 500 seats in the lower house, 15 state governorships and thousands […]