ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR

Mexico's president has said that U.S. families are to blame for the fentanyl overdose crisis because they don't hug their kids enough.

Health authorities in Mexico say they will use more traditional medicine and more Cuban doctors in the country's woefully underequipped public hospital system.

The president of Mexico claimed his nation was safer than the U.S. after receiving widespread criticism following the kidnapping of four American tourists by cartel members.

Mexico's president has claimed that his country is safer than the United States, a week after two U.S. citizens were killed and two kidnapped in the border city of Matamoros.

It was supposed to be a fun road trip to Mexico for a group of childhood friends.

President López Obrador cast the fentanyl epidemic as a U.S. problem and said the demands, made after the Matamoros kidnappings, were a threat to sovereignty.

Mexico's president says his country does not produce or consume fentanyl, despite enormous evidence to the contrary.

When four Americans were kidnapped in the border city of Matamoros, authorities rescued the survivors after three days.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, sounded off after two Americans were murdered among four total kidnapped by cartels in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

U.S. and Mexican officials say four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week seeking health care got caught in a deadly drug-related shootout and were kidnapped.

The large crowds of Mexicans that took to the streets on Feb. 26 were protesting a new law that, once signed and published, would cut the budget and workforce of the country’s election regulator, known as the INE. In a country where votes were routinely rigged during much of the 20th century, the new law is widely viewed as a threat to a still-young multiparty system. It’s also seen as part of an effort by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as AMLO, to undermine democratic norms and bo

Mexico's president says his country is more democratic than the United States.

The Mexican president says that electric car company Tesla has committed to building a plant in the industrial hub of Monterrey in northern Mexico.

Mexico’s president lashed out Monday at demonstrators who protested cuts to election funding over the weekend, belittling their concerns about threats to democracy and dashing any hopes that he would try to ease rising political tensions.

Tens of thousands of people filled Mexico City's vast main plaza to protest electoral law reforms that they say threaten democracy.

Mexico is undergoing a fevered competition among states to win a potential Tesla facility in jostling reminiscent of what happens among U.S. cities and states vying to win investments from tech companies.

Mexico’s Senate has approved a reform of the country’s electoral institute, a move that opponents say will undercut democracy but which the president contends will save money and reduce political privileges.

A U.S. jury has convicted a former Mexican presidential cabinet member of taking massive bribes to protect the drug cartels he was tasked with combating.

In less than two months, more than 50 people have died in Peru, largely protesters at the hands of police officers.

The man who was once Mexico’s top security official and in charge of fighting the drug cartels is going on trial on charges of helping the Sinaloa Cartel traffic drugs and protect them from capture.

The mayor of Mexico City says 6,060 National Guard officers will be posted in the city's subway system after a series of accidents that officials say could be due to sabotage.

President Joe Biden says he was “surprised’ when he was informed that government records were found by his attorneys at a former office space in Washington.

President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are seeking to downplay their frustrations with one another on migration and trade as they meet for the North America Leaders Summit.

Canada has finalized an agreement with Lockheed Martin Corp. and the United States government to purchase 88 F-35 fighter jets.

Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador is challenging U.S. President Joe Biden to end an attitude of “abandonment” and “disdain” for Latin America and the Caribbean as the two leaders meet in Mexico City.

It’s been a big week for U.S.-Mexico relations, and that was even before President Joe Biden becomes the first U.S. leader to visit Mexico in nearly a decade.

Mexico’s capture of a son of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán this week likely is an isolated nod to a drug war strategy that Mexico’s current administration has abandoned rather than a sign that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s thinking has changed.

The operation to detain Ovidio Guzman, the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, unleashed firefights that turned the northern city of Culiacan into a war zone.

The Mexican military has captured a son of the imprisoned drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

President Joe Biden says he intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border in connection with his meeting next week in Mexico City with the leaders of Canada and Mexico.

Mexico's president is appealing to the country's citizens not to accept holiday handouts and gifts from drug gangs.

President Joe Biden will travel to Mexico next month for North American leaders summit.

Mexico's president has asked Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Bad Bunny to play a free concert in Mexico City, to make up for a fake ticket scandal that left thousands frustrated at a sold-out weekend appearance.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador loves big projects and hates unfinished ones, but that is likely what he will leave his successor when he leaves office at the end of 2024.

Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in Mexico’s capital in a show of support for President Manuel López Obrador, who before assuming the presidency led some of the country’s biggest protests.

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the tens of thousands who demonstrated against his proposal to overhaul the country’s electoral authority were people in favor of privilege, racism and classism.

A blistering display of bare-knuckled political infighting has broken out in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party, complete with rumors of secret wiretaps and drug cartel ties.

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz said the Biden administration is working on a plan to unite the U.S., Canada and Mexico under an international coalition much like the European Union.

A massive trove of emails from Mexico’s Defense Department is among electronic communications taken by hackers from military and police security institutions in several Latin American countries.

A high-level United States delegation invited Mexico to participate in a push to shift semiconductor production from Asia to North America and expand production of electric vehicles.

Mexico's Senate has approved handing control of the country's recently created National Guard over to the military.

In Mexico, a long list of nonviolent crimes bring automatic pretrial detention, with no bail or house arrest allowed.

Hopes have faded of rescuing 10 men trapped by a flood in a Mexican coal mine this month.

Days of widespread drug cartel arson and shootings in four Mexican states last week have left people asking why drug cartels exploded, and what do they want.

Mexico's president has begun exploring plans to sidestep congress to hand formal control of the National Guard to the army.

Former Justice Department prosecutor James Trusty joined Catherine Herridge to discuss the Jan. 6 investigation into former President Donald Trump. Trusty has been retained by Trump in a defamation suit against CNN.

In a bid to stoke nationalism and justify his policies, Mexico's president has increasingly taken to calling his opponents “traitors” and accused them of working for the foreign governments.

The recent US trade complaint about Mexico’s energy policy is a direct attack on one of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s core beliefs.

From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, guest worker agreements with Mexico curbed undocumented border crossings and spurred growth. They could do so again today.

Refusing to spend doesn’t equate to fiscal discipline. Mexico’s AMLO needs to enable investment in the country to reverse poor growth under successive presidents.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is visiting Washington on Tuesday to meet with President Joe Biden.

Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday by a gunman who opened fire on him as he delivered a campaign speech on a street in western Japan, shocking the country.

Friday’s assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in one of the world’s safest countries has stunned leaders and drawn condemnation.

Questions about the security strategy of Mexico's president have mounted since two Jesuit priests were murdered last month.

Three women and four men, including a minor, were shot at their home in the eastern state of Veracruz, officials said.

The prosecutor's office did not say whether the suspected criminals belonged to a drug trafficking cartel, although such gangs operate in the region.

Rep. Ted Lieu “quoted” Jesus Christ to quietly confront Republicans who are targeting the rights of LGBTQ Americans.

Scorching temperatures are in store for the southwestern U.S. over the next several days. Cities like Phoenix, Las Vegas and Palm Springs in California are expected to top 110 degrees. (June 8)

President Joe Biden says democracy is an “essential ingredient” for the Western Hemisphere's future, an implicit rebuttal to leaders from around the world who boycotted the Summit of the Americas because authoritarians were not invited.

Sunday’s gubernatorial elections in six Mexican states may be the high-water mark for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party, which is poised to take at least four of the six races.

An Indigenous migrant who was accused of kidnapping and jailed in a northern Mexico border city has returned to her homeland of Guatemala as a free woman after spending more than seven years in prison without a trial.

Abortion is a hot topic with the Supreme Court's reconsideration of Roe v. Wade in this election cycle. Here's what Levittown voters had to say about it.

Escobar's death is now being investigated as femicide, after originally being registered as a disappearance, officials said.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has started a five-day tour to four Central American countries and Cuba by lashing out at the U.S. government.

Francisco Javier Rodriguez Hernandez is also accused of controlling several laboratories for the production of synthetic drugs.

Nationalizing Mexico’s lithium reserves and extending state control over electricity and energy will undermine the region’s prosperity and security.

The two leaders talked as the U.S. prepares to lift the policy that has allowed the U.S. to expel migrants under COVID protocols.

The unit was created in 1997 and worked on cases such as the capture of notorious drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s white-haired, folksy president, is telling voters to go to the polls April 10 and decide whether he should resign instead of serving until 2024, when his single six-year term will end. The populist leader has a history of using referendums as a tool to energize his working class base, but this will be the first time he’s turned the question on himself.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s white-haired, folksy president, is telling voters to go to the polls April 10 and decide whether he should resign instead of serving until 2024, when his single six-year term will end. The populist leader has a history of using referendums as a tool to energize his working class base, but this will be the first time he’s turned the question on himself.

For the first time in history, Mexicans will vote Sunday on whether their president should finish out the rest of his term.

Video posted on social media showed people running down the beach as gunshots rang out as others took cover behind tables or chairs.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has now essentially given up on his quixotic bid to sell off the presidential jet, and will rent it out for weddings or coming-of-age parties.

Republican infighting is threatening to topple the party's strategy to regain control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections. CBS News political reporter Caitlin Huey-burns joined Vladimir Duthiers and Lana Zak with more.

Department of Defense press secretary John Kirby says Russian president Vladimir Putin could order an attack on Ukraine "with little or no warning." As the U.S. prepares for potential conflict, the White House says diplomacy is still on the table. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin joined CBS News' "Red and Blue" with the latest.

New footage purportedly shows a major Mexican cartel dropping bombs on rival camps with a drone — marking the latest instance of instability and violence in the region from a cartel that officials say has been growing rapidly.

The exact location of the plant in southeastern Mexico has yet to be announced.

Once able to rely on larger-than-life finance ministers, the region’s business leaders now need to make the public case for free markets via retail politics.

Activists warn restoring 'Remain in Mexico' at the border will result in "torture, rape, and death".

The mayor of Acapulco, Adela Román, said there was no major damage, but the 7.1 magnitude temblor rattled buildings hundreds of miles away in the capital.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in a planned phone call on Monday with Vice President Kamala Harris he would urge the United States to reopen the two countries' shared southern border "completely."

The video is the second video showing a brother of the president accepting large amounts of money

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said meetings on the migration crisis with Kamala Harris went so well that he called her "president."

Vice President Kamala Harris closes out her first foreign trip Tuesday in Mexico. She'll meet with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a key but complicated ally in the Biden administration’s efforts to curb migration at the U.S. border. (June 8)

Vice President Kamala Harris is closing out her first foreign trip Tuesday with a visit to Mexico and a meeting with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a key but complicated ally in the Biden administration’s efforts to curb the spike in migration at the U.S. border. While Lopez Obrador committed in a previous virtual meeting with Harris that the U.S. can “count on us” to help address the issue of irregular migration, the Mexican president has in the past blamed President Joe Biden for the increase in migration at the border.

The good news about Latin America is that the region’s economy will rebound much faster than expected, mainly because of a sharp rise in U.S. and Chinese imports. The bad news is that the region’s politics will most likely ruin the recovery.

"Mexico is now overwhelmed and out of capacity," a Catholic priest in southwest Mexico told Insider.

Some Mexican auto factories are due to open as soon as Monday, in line with large U.S. assembly plants for the Detroit automakers. Despite President Donald Trump's "America First" policies, the U.S. auto industry heavily relies on Mexico for parts and vehicle production. Mexico, unlike many U.S. states, had not given direction on when auto manufacturing would be allowed to restart as the county's coronavirus cases have continued to rise. It's something auto industry executives have been closely watching as they reopen American factories. Prior to the reopening report, Fred Hubacker, a managing partner of consulting firm Conway MacKenzie, called Mexico a "wild card" in the restart of the U.S. auto industry.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cubas President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Monday called a gun assault last week on its embassy in Washington a terrorist attack, while U.S. court papers said the suspected gunman was a psychotic Cuban emigre who heard voices. FILE PHOTO - Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel attends an official welcoming ceremony held by Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, at National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Luis CortesThere were no injuries in the attack last Thursday, but gunshots riddled the facade and some penetrated the building. Police arrested Alexander Alazo, 42, at around 2 a.m. after he fired an AK-47-style semi-automatic rifle 32 times at the embassy, according a memorandum filed on Sunday in support of pretrial detention. USA, Land and Family, according to court papers.

Even as COVID-19 deaths soar at factories in Mexico, the United States is sending a clear message: Its time for plants that have stopped production to get back to work. AdvertisementMexican officials have begun to cave, despite warnings from health authorities here that reopening factories too soon could lead to widespread death. And authorities in the border state of Baja California have lifted closure orders on at least 12 factories. Avila said 390 businesses that her group represents have asked Mexican officials to deem the work of their suppliers in Mexico essential. AdvertisementAn April 18 letter from the company to employees confirmed three suspected COVID-19 deaths at the Juarez factory.

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Henry RomeroMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday that the United Nations has been slow in ensuring fair prices and equal access to medical equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. With cases of coronavirus rising rapidly in the country, Mexico has sought to supplement its limited supply of ventilators by purchasing equipment from China.

President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States would "help Mexico along" with oil production cuts that it is meant to make under a global deal to shore up slumping crude oil prices, but said the details had yet to be worked out. The comments suggest that Trump could be considering an unprecedented effort to orchestrate a production cut in the United States, historically the world's most vocal proponent of the free market. The group of oil producers known as OPEC+, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, had hammered out the framework of a record oil cut on Thursday to lift oil prices slammed by the coronavirus crisis. President Lopez Obrador said earlier on Friday that Trump had agreed help out by cutting additional U.S. output after Mexico offered OPEC+ a cut of just 100,000 bpd, a quarter of what the group demanded. He said Trump "very generously said to me that they were going to help us with the additional 250,000 (bpd) to what they are going to contribute."

Seething anger over a rise in deadly violence against women in Mexico spilled into the streets of the nations capital on Sunday as tens of thousands of female demonstrators marched to demand that the government do more to protect them. Some of the countrys largest companies have endorsed the action Monday, giving women the day off. Theyre killing women in plain sight.Teresa Morales, 44, walked arm in arm with her two daughters. They do not represent me.Riot police filled the streets, but for the most part did not stop the women. Its not women killing women, its men killing women, and they are emboldened by Mexicos culture of impunity, said Mara de la Luz Estrada, an activist with a group that tracks femicides.

In a lawless stretch of western Mexico, children as young as 6 are taking up arms against organized crime. This week, 19 children were conscripted into a vigilante group that for years has been battling drug gangs in restive Guerrero state. If they are afraid, the criminals will kill them like little chickens.AdvertisementTwo of the children who were trained were 6, Sanchez said. Human rights officials across the country condemned the enlistment of young vigilante soldiers. They say were violating the childrens rights, Sanchez said.

SUCHIATE RIVER, Guatemala/Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican security forces fired tear gas at rock-hurling Central American migrants who waded across a river into Mexico earlier on Monday, in a chaotic scramble that saw mothers separated from their young children. The mostly Honduran migrants numbered around 500, according to Mexicos National Migration Institute (INM). Five National Guard police were injured in the clashes, the INM said. The Reuters witness said that several kilometers from the border, Mexican immigration authorities had filled a bus and pickup trucks with detained migrants. Mexican authorities had already received nearly 1,100 migrants in the states of Chiapas and Tabasco, the ministry said on Sunday.

They built ranch-style homes with orchards where the young children of growing families could ride their bikes and play all day outside. Other family members describe how kids suffer from recurring nightmares, and those relatives who have left fear coming back. Officials have suggested the attack may have been linked to a turf battle between two rival cartels known to fight over lucrative smuggling routes between Sonora and Chihuahua states, which both border the United States. Others have been provided with armed escorts from Mexican security forces. Bad things happen in every corner of the world, including in the United States.

The Trump administration on Monday downplayed a Mexican concern about a key piece of the North American trade deal the House aims to approve this week. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said language in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which the three countries signed last week, does not call for American "labor inspectors" in Mexico. "These personnel will not be 'labor inspectors' and will abide by all relevant Mexican laws," the agency continued. The White House aims to ease concerns during a pivotal period for the trade agreement one of President Donald Trump's top economic and political priorities. The administration won support for USMCA from skeptical House Democratic leaders after including tougher labor enforcement tools in the deal, among other provisions.

Earlier today, U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr traveled to Mexico. Attorney General Barr also accompanied Ambassador Landau in a visit to Mexicos National Shrine, Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, Attorney General Barr and U.S. Secretary of the Navy Admiral Jose Rafael Ojeda Duran, Security Minister Alfonso Durazo Montao, Attorney General Barr and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard CasaubonThe U.S. law enforcement relationship with Mexico is one of our most important partnerships to combat trans-border crime. Attorney General Barr looks forward to further dialogue on these important matters.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday said visiting U.S. Atty. Gen. William Barr understood the importance of nonintervention in foreign policy, but there was no public indication that the two nations had resolved deep differences about the Trump administrations plans to classify Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. Those killings and others have emphasized Mexicos soaring homicide rate, much of it linked to organized crime, which controls the lucrative trafficking of drugs to the United States. If designated, Mexican drug gangs would join dozens of other international organizations on similar blacklists, including Islamist, separatist and other factions with more overtly political goals than Mexican drug syndicates which, while extremely violent, operate on a for-profit principle. The United States is also the source of much of the weaponry used by Mexican drug gangs.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks to the media during her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol on November 21, 2019 in Washington, DC. Pelosi spoke about her legislative plans through the new year and the lack of progress she feels the Senate is making on passing legislation the House has already passed. She then took questions. Mexico's government will this week send a letter to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urging Congress to approve a new trade deal, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday. Speaking at a regular government news conference alongside various ministers, Lopez Obrador said he was sure that Pelosi and Democratic lawmakers would help Mexico, and that he believed the U.S. Congress would approve the deal before the end of 2019.