MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president depicts Sunday’s congressional, state and local elections as the last opportunity to keep conservatives from returning to power, while opponents say it is a twilight battle to defend the country’s democratic institutions against a powerful populist. Security analysts worry that gangs and drug cartels are playing a role in local politics in some towns, after the killings of about three dozen candidates.

“We demand a national security strategy focused on gender to put an end to femicides,” the letter said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador began his trip to the United States, his first foreign trip as president, with visits Wednesday to the Lincoln Memorial and the statue of Benito Juárez, a former president and national hero in Mexico.

That was “interesting.”

AMLO’s administration has not made women’s rights a priority. Instead, it has been rolling back some the few federal policies designed to protect and empower Mexican women.

At a press conference on February 1, the Mexican president said his government would embrace what he called “Franciscan poverty” if it would “transfer funds to the people” and achieve “development, jobs and welfare.”

Organized gangs drill roughly 42 illegal taps into government pipelines daily, costing the country $3 billion per year.

There aren’t enough tanker trucks, and lines have stretched for hours at gas stations in outlying states this week.

During the massive election day, violence and reports of corruption marred the mood.

AMLO is the frontrunner for the July 1 presidential elections in Mexico.

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has again complained to the United States that the U.S. government is funding organizations opposed to his administration, this time in a letter to President Joe Biden.

Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that last year’s transfer of the newly created National Guard from civilian to military control was unconstitutional, dealing a blow to President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador who created the security force in 2019.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made completing the Mayan Train, a project that looks to connect parts of the Yucatán Peninsula and drive tourism in remote areas, has met with increasing resistance from the Indigenous people of the region.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he hopes Genaro García Luna will make a deal with prosecutors to reduce his sentence, in exchange for testifying about López Obrador’s predecessors.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged that the island faces “tremendously difficult challenges” as he arrived in Mexico on Saturday. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called U.S. policy “completely worn out, anachronistic, it has no future or point, and it no longer benefits anyone.”

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised big changes during his campaign, but the violence that has long plagued Mexico has flared up again and has brought to the president’s door an institution that hadn’t spoken out before: the Catholic Church.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreed to spend $1.5 billion over the next two years to improve “smart” border technology during meetings on Tuesday with President Joe Biden—a move the White House says shows neighborly cooperation.

The two priests, aged 79 and 80, respectively, were shot dead in the small church on Cerocahui’s town square Monday, along with a tourist guide they tried to protect from a local crime boss. The killer, who President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday had been identified, took their bodies.

The government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants Mexicans to produce more of their own food in order to move toward self-sufficiency in key products and to control prices for basic foodstuffs.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed Monday that he will skip the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, dealing a blow to the U.S.’ efforts to rally governments to work together to address surging migration in the hemisphere.

With Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador topping a list of leaders threatening to stay home to protest the exclusion by the host United States of authoritarian leaders from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, experts say the event could turn into an embarrassment for U.S. President Joe Biden.