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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives her morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Mexico celebrates dodging latest US tariffs but feels the effects of global economic uncertainty
Mexico is celebrating having dodged the latest round of tariffs from the White House taking aim at dozens of U.S. trading partners around the world.
 
Minister of Security and Citizen Protection Omar Garcia Harfuch speaks during a presentation of incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum's Cabinet members in Mexico City, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
Mexico’s security chief quietly forms an elite force to take on the drug cartels
Six years ago Mexico’s president disbanded the country’s Federal Police and handed security responsibilities fully to the military.
 
Police guard access to Izaguirre Ranch in Teuchitlan, Jalisco state, Mexico, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Alfredo Moya)
Armed men seen on video targeting group searching for relatives in Jalisco
Masked and heavily armed men have circulated a video denouncing people searching for missing relatives at the site of what authorities said was a cartel training camp in the western Mexican state of Jalisco.
 
Police stand guard outside the entrance to Izaguirre Ranch where skeletal remains were discovered in Teuchitlan, Jalisco state, Mexico, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alejandra Leyva)
Killing site in Jalisco, Mexico just the latest in a long series of gruesome discoveries
Prosecutors in the western Mexican state of Jalisco have confirmed the discovery of many clothing items and bone fragments by a group of people searching for relatives at a previously known cartel training site.
 
CORRECTS NAME: Susano Cordoba, right, gestures towards trucks lining up to cross the border into the United States as tariffs against Mexico go into effect, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Mexico says it will impose retaliatory tariffs on US with details coming Sunday
Mexico’s president says the country will respond to the 25% tariffs imposed by the United States with retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods, with details to come.
 
A student participates in an active shooter drill at the Socrates elementary school in Culiacan, Mexico, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Cartel-plagued Mexican city pins hopes on Trump’s anti-drug trafficking pressure
In Mexico’s Culiacan, a city of 1 million residents, an elementary school principal starts each day checking for shootouts before deciding whether to cancel classes.
 
Venezuelan migrant Gabriela Villanueva holds her daughter as she waits to board a boat to Colombia on Panama's Caribbean coastal island of Gardi Sugdub, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, after turning back from southern Mexico where they gave up hopes of reaching the U.S. amid President Trump's crackdown on migration. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
The US lines up Latin American cooperation for migrant deportations
Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it’s a U.S. immigration detention facility. Families from Central Asia flown to Panama and Costa Rica to await voluntary repatriation to their countries.
 
A shop's windows are riddled with bullets near City Hall after a gun battle between a heavily armed drug cartel assault group and security forces in Villa Union, Mexico, near the border with the U.S., Dec. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
A look at the 8 Latin American crime groups designated as terrorist organizations by the US
The United States government is formally designating eight Latin American organized crime groups that also operate in the U.S. to be “foreign terrorist organizations.”
 
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim gives a press conference in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
What Mexico’s richest man thinks Trump should do in his second term
Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, one of the world’s richest people, holds forth once a year on a wide range of topics. His companies run the gamut from communications and construction to an iconic Mexican chain of restaurants and shops.
 
Mexican National Guards prepare to board an aircraft at the International Airport in Merida, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, to travel north to reinforce the country's border with the United States. (AP Photo/Martin Zetina)
What did US get from deals to pause tariffs on Canada and Mexico? Not that much, observers say
President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs against Canada and Mexico risked blowing up North America’s economy. What did the United States get out of his deals to pause the import taxes against the two nations?
 
Migrants sleep on the side of a street in Acapulco, Mexico, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernardino Hernandez)
Migrants left stranded in troubled resort as Mexico disperses them far from US border
Two weeks ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration, Mexico continues dissolving attention-grabbing migrant caravans and dispersing migrants throughout the country to keep them far from the U.S. border, while simultaneously limiting how many accumulate in any one place.
 
FILE - 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)
Afraid of losing the US-Canada trade pact, Mexico alters its laws and removes Chinese parts
Mexico has been taking a bashing for allegedly serving as a conduit for Chinese parts and products into North America.
 
FILE - U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar speaks during a press conference at the new embassy still under construction, in Mexico City, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
US ambassador says Mexico ‘closed the doors’ on security cooperation and denies its violence problem
U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar has lashed out at Mexico’s failure to accept aid in the fight against drug cartels, claiming the country “closed the doors” on security cooperation.
 
FILE - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, left, and President Donald Trump hold a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, July 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Round 2 in the Trump-vs-Mexico matchup looks ominous for Mexico
Mexico is facing a second Donald Trump presidency, and few countries can match its experience as a target of Trump’s rhetoric: There have been threats to close the border, impose tariffs and even send U.S. forces to fight Mexican drug cartels if the country doesn’t do more to stem the flow of migran
 
Migrants walk along the highway in Huixtla, southern Mexico, heading toward the country's northern border and ultimately the United States, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Trump victory spurs worry among migrants abroad, but it’s not expected to halt migration
 
FILE - President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks on her inauguration day after being sworn in at Congress in Mexico City, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
What to know about changes to Mexico’s Constitution that prohibit court challenges to amendments
Mexico’s federal and state legislatures, all dominated by the ruling Morena party, have passed amendments to the Constitution that prohibit courts from challenging any Constitutional reforms.
 
Venezuelan migrant Lisbeth Contreras hugs her children as she crosses the Suchiate River, which marks the border between Guatemala and Mexico, from Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
How Mexican cartels manage the flow of migrants on their way to the US border
The first place many migrants sleep after entering Mexico from Guatemala is inside a large structure, a roof above and fenced in the sides on a rural ranch.
 
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador unveils his portrait at the National Palace after giving his last morning press conference, "La Mañanera," in Mexico City, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Live music, breakfast and a raffle: Mexico’s president makes the most of his final day in office
Outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador turned his final morning briefing Monday into a variety show featuring live music, breakfast and a raffle to gift his watch to a journalist.
 
Youths take part in a demonstration marking the 10-year anniversary of the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa rural teacher's college students, in Mexico City, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Orbach)
Families of 43 missing students in Mexico are still demanding justice 10 years later
Families of the 43 students from a rural teacher’s college abducted 10 years ago in southern Mexico marked the painful anniversary Thursday disillusioned after a decade of unfulfilled government promises.
 
Photos of 43 students who have been missing for 10 years cover the stairs at their former Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero state, Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Case of Mexico’s 43 missing students persists among tens of thousands of disappearances
All countries have crimes that resonate. Mexico’s is the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teacher’s college in 2014. Ten years later, it’s still not clear where the students from the Rural Normal School at Ayotzinapa are.
 
People walk outside the bus terminal in Iguala, Guerrero state, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. Ten years ago, about 100 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School commandeered buses to drive themselves to a protest in the capital, but were attacked and 43 of them went missing. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
The night when 43 students disappeared in Mexico: A timeline of key events
On Sept. 26, 2014, dozens of students from a teachers college in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero disappeared.
 
Photos of 43 students who have been missing for 10 years cover the stairs at their former Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero state, Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
It’s been a decade since 43 students disappeared in Mexico. Their parents still fight for answers
The parents of 43 students of a radical teachers college who disappeared in Mexico are still searching for them 10 years later. The students were abducted from buses they had commandeered to drive to the capital for a protest on Sept. 26, 2014.
 
Mexican city of Culiacan is near a standstill over fears of cartel clashes
Schools and businesses in Culiacan, the state capital of Sinaloa, have shut down and upcoming festivities around Mexican Independence have been canceled as fears over clashes between factions of the Sinaloa cartel disrupt life in the northern city of 1 million.
 
A demonstrator holds the sign "Judicial reform national threat" during a protest outside the Senate against a judicial reform bill in Mexico City, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, the day after Congress passed legislation that would require all judges to stand for election. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
What’s at stake in Mexico’s judicial system under sweeping overhaul pushed by the president
Mexico’s governing party says judges in the current court system are corrupt, and it wants to push through a unusual proposal to make the country’s entire judicial branch — some 7,000 judges —stand for election.
 
Outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves after delivering his last State of the Union at the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Tens of thousands in Mexico cheer on president’s proposed judicial reforms as protesters reject them
Tens of thousands of supporters of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador crowded around him as he began his last month in power by calling again for support of his judicial reform plan.
 
FILE - Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente, File)
US expands area in Mexico to apply for border asylum appointments, hoping to slow push north
The CBP One app has been around, but as of Friday migrants in Mexico’s southernmost states bordering Guatemala will be able to apply for appointments to seek U.S. asylum. Previously, they had to be in central or northern Mexico.
 
FILE - A visitor looks at an exhibit during the inauguration of a memorial to victims of Mexico's "dirty war" at the former Federal Security headquarters where student protesters were taken in 1971 following a violent crackdown in Mexico City, June 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Cristina Baussan, File)
Mexico’s truth commission reveals new evidence of ‘death flights’ during 1965-1990 ‘dirty war’
More evidence has emerged that Mexican authorities disposed of the bodies of dissidents in “death flights” during the country’s 1965-1990 “dirty war.”
 
FILE - This image provided by the U.S. Department of State shows Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. Zambada, who was taken into U.S. custody last week, made his second appearance in federal court in Texas on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (U.S. Department of State via AP)
Mexican drug lord ‘El Mayo’ Zambada says he was ambushed and kidnapped before being taken to the US
Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has said that he was ambushed and kidnapped when he thought he was going to meet the governor of the northern state of Sinaloa.
 
This image provided by the U.S. Department of State shows Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another infamous cartel leader, were arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday, July 25, 2024. (U.S. Department of State via AP)
Mexican kingpin’s arrest likely to set off violent jockeying for power
A new era is coming for Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel in the wake of the capture by U.S. authorities of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the last of the grand old Mexican drug traffickers.
 
This combo of images provided by the U.S. Department of State show Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, left, and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another infamous cartel leader, after they were arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday, July 25, 2024. (U.S. Department of State via AP)
Powerful cartel leader ‘El Mayo’ Zambada was lured onto airplane before arrest in US, AP source says
A U.S. law enforcement official says a powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who has eluded authorities for decades was duped into flying into the U.S., where he was arrested alongside a son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
 
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