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President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Mexico defends sovereignty as US seeks to label cartels as terrorists

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum says President Donald Trump’s executive order moving toward designating drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations would only impact Mexico if there’s close coordination between the two governments.

Juan Ramón de la Fuente, appointed as foreign affairs secretary, attends the press conference announcing incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum's Cabinet members, in Mexico City, June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico expands regional migrant aid to Latin America as Trump inauguration nears

Residents walk near a street where five people were killed the night before, in Huitzilac, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

5 killed in Mexican town caught between battling criminal groups

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives a media briefing at the National Palace in Mexico City, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexico’s President Sheinbaum offers sarcastic response to Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ comment

Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar shows off one of his hats during the farewell news conference in Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Departing US ambassador to Mexico sees ‘major changes’ under Trump in diplomatic relationship

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Guatemalan authorities searched the compound of an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect Wednesday, taking four Canadian minors into protective custody after reports of abuse, according to authorities.

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Second mayoral candidate killed in Mexico’s Veracruz State ahead of June 1 elections

Mexico calls US suspension of cattle imports due to screwworm “unfair”

Mothers of Mexico’s disappeared hold a candle vigil in Mexico City on eve of Mother’s Day

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Demonstrators start a fire at the foot of the barrier protecting the National Palace during a march to commemorate the 9th anniversary of the disappearance of 43 missing Ayotzinapa university students, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. The graffiti on the barrier reads "Military Narcostate" in Spanish. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

9 years later, families of 43 missing Mexican students march to demand answers in emblematic case

Flooding in the Mexican state of Jalisco leaves 7 people dead and 9 others missing

Drug cartel turf battles cut off towns in southern Mexico state of Chiapas, near Guatemala border

Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accompanied by first lady Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, sends out a symbolical embrace at the start of the annual Independence Day parade in the capital's main square, the Zocalo, in Mexico City, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexican president wants to meet with Biden in Washington on migration, drug trafficking

Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande river to the U.S. from Mexico seek direction from a guardsman, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

As migrants overwhelm a Texas border city, others wait in Mexico for appointments to enter the US

Mexico president says he’ll skip APEC summit in November in San Francisco

Migrants watch a train go past as they wait along the train tracks hoping to board a freight train heading north, one that stops long enough so they can hop on, in Huehuetoca, Mexico, Sept. 19, 2023. Ferromex, Mexico's largest railroad company announced that it was suspending operations of its cargo trains due to the massive number of migrants that are illegally hitching a ride on its trains moving north towards the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexican railway operator halts trains because so many migrants are climbing aboard and getting hurt

A contingent of Russian soldiers march in the annual Independence Day military parade through the Zocalo of Mexico City, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexican president defends inclusion of Russian military contingent in Independence parade

FILE - This frame grab from video, provided by the Mexican government, shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez being detained in Culiacan, Mexico, Oct. 17, 2019. Mexico extradited Guzman Lopez, a son of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, to the United States on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, to face drug trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. (CEPROPIE via AP File)

US: Mexico extradites Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Sinaloa cartel leader ‘El Chapo,’ to United States

A trans woman waits to take a photo inside a mausoleum dedicated to trans women in Mexico City, Thursday, Sep. 14, 2023. A small altar with an image of trans woman Paola Buenrostro, who was murdered in 2016, can be seen in the background. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

A mausoleum for transgender women is inaugurated in Mexico’s capital as killings continue

FILE - Legislators fill the lower house of Congress as the wait for inauguration ceremony of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, at the National Congress in Mexico City, Dec 1, 2018. Experts from Mexico, the United States, Japan and Brazil gathered before the Mexican Congress on Sept. 12, 2023 to share their findings on the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrials that date back to 2017 in the sandy Peruvian coastal desert of Nazca. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Scientists call fraud on supposed extraterrestrials presented to Mexican Congress

FILE - Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico and presidential hopeful Marcelo Ebrard speaks during his closing campaign event in Mexico City, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023. Ebrard has impugned his party´s primary election process on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, citing supposed irregularities during the election. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme, File)

Mexico’s former foreign minister threatens to leave party over candidate selection process

FILE - Crews construct a section of border wall in San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, in Douglas, Ariz. Construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump toppled untold numbers of saguaro cactuses in Arizona, put endangered ocelots at risk in Texas and disturbed Native American burial grounds, Congress' official watchdog said Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Congressional watchdog describes border wall harm, says agencies should work together to ease damage

Mexican politicians Alfonso Durazo, left, and presumptive MORENA party presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum stand together during an event to announce the next party candidate in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexico is likely to get its first female president after top parties choose 2 women as candidates

Mexican politicians Alfonso Durazo, left, and presumptive MORENA party presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum stand together during an event to announce the next party candidate in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum to be the ruling party’s presidential candidate

FILE - A kayaker walks past large buoys being used as a floating border barrier on the Rio Grande, Aug. 1, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. A federal judge on Wednesday, Sept. 6, ordered Texas to move a large floating barrier to the riverbank of the Rio Grande after protests from the the U.S. and Mexican governments over Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest tactic to stop migrants from crossing America’s southern border. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

A judge orders Texas to move a floating barrier that’s used to deter migrants between US and Mexico

FILE - Passenger planes take off from Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City, May 12, 2022. The Mexican government ordered Mexico City's old airport to cut flights by 17% on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023, sparking warnings by airlines of possible mass flight cancellations. The new rules are scheduled to take effect by Oct. 29. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico City’s old airport told to cut flights by 17%, leading airlines to warn of mass cancellations

Texas guardsman suspended after wounding man in cross-border shooting, Mexico says

FILE - Senator Xochitl Galvez, an opposition presidential hopeful, rides a bike upon her arrival to a hotel for the announcement of the opposition presidential candidates in Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. The main opposition parties declared on Wednesday, August 30, 2023, Galvez as their virtual candidate for the upcoming presidential elections. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexico’s broad opposition coalition announces Sen. Xóchitl Gálvez will run for presidency in 2024

FILE - A worker unloads a truck-full of Mexican limes at a citrus packing plant in La Ruana, in the state of Michoacan, Mexico, Nov. 6, 2023. The government of Michoacan state said Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2023, that it has launched a criminal investigation into the extortion of lime growers by a local drug cartel in the western Mexican state. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Mexico sends 1,200 more troops to Michoacan state after weekend of cartel violence

Former Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a closing campaign rally for her presidential candidate bid to represent the ruling MORENA party, in Mexico City, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. Pre-candidates are holding campaign closers in primary contests to see who will compete in Mexico's 2024 general election. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Candidates vying to run to become Mexico’s president under AMLO’s party close their campaigns

FILE - A Mexican flag waves in front of The National Palace, the office of the president, in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, at sunrise, April 24, 2023. Mexico's general elections, including presidential, are set for June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Experts warn against wave of fake news ahead of Mexico’s 2024 presidential election

A migrant prepares a meal at a shelter encampment in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. Mexico’s immigration agency and a Catholic aid group have opened a temporary outdoor shelter for migrants living in camps to move to, as Mexico’s National Institute for Migration wants this large camp in Matamoros dismantled. (AP Photo/Jacky Muniello)

Mexican border city struggles to find space for migrants even with a new shelter

Four die in climbing accident on the Pico de Orizaba, Mexico’s highest peak

Bernardo Arevalo, presidential candidate with the Semilla Movement, shows his finger dyed with electoral ink after voting in the run-off presidential election in Guatemala City, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Progressive Arévalo is ‘virtual winner’ of Guatemala election after corruption angered voters

FILE - Central Illinois farmers deposit harvested corn on the ground outside a full grain elevator in Virginia, Ill. The U.S. government said Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, it is formally requesting a dispute settlement panel in its ongoing row with Mexico over its limits on genetically modified corn. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

US escalates trade dispute with Mexico over limits on genetically modified corn

FILE - In this aerial photo, a bathtub ring of light minerals show the high water mark on the shore of Lake Mead along the border of Nevada and Arizona, Monday, March 6, 2023, near Boulder City, Nev. The federal government is expected to make an announcement on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023, about the health of the Colorado River and water cuts in 2024. (AP Photo/John Locher,File)

Western states will not lose as much Colorado River water in 2024, despite long-term challenges

A water station for immigrants containing sealed jugs of fresh water sits along a fence line near a roadway in rural Jim Hogg County, Texas, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The South Texas Human Rights Center maintains over 100 blue barrels consistently stocked with water across rural South Texas to serve as a life-saving measure for immigrants who have crossed into the United States to travel north in the sweltering heat. (AP Photo/Michael Gonzalez)

Barrels of drinking water for migrants walking through Texas have disappeared

FILE - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a rally marking his fifth anniversary in office, at the Zocalo in Mexico City, July 1, 2023. Mexico’s president posed a question Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023 that nobody was really asking: why, if a woman criticizes him, he isn’t considered victim of gender violence. Mexico has strict political regulations that forbid questioning someone’s competence based on their gender. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario, File)

Mexico president asks why, if a woman criticizes him, he isn’t considered victim of gender violence

Texas State Troopers watch from an airboat as workers deploy a string of large buoys to be used as a border barrier at the center of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. The floating barrier is being deployed in an effort to block migrants from entering Texas from Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Body seen along floating barrier Texas installed in the Rio Grande, Mexico says