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Mexico president foresees court challenges to electoral law

Mexico's president says he expects court challenges to a new law that will cut funding for the country's electoral agency and weaken oversight of campaign spending

The Independent UK

Mexico's Senate approves controversial electoral reform bill

Mexico’s Senate on Wednesday 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.

France 24

Mexican president hopes ex security chief will turn informer

Mexico's president says he hopes that former security chief Genaro García Luna will turn state's evidence in the U.S. and perhaps implicate former Mexican presidents

The Independent UK

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Trial in New York has Mexico riveted as jury contemplates fate of former Mexican security chief

MEXICO CITY — He has talked about the case for months, likening it to a television crime drama and saying its revelations dramatize the deep corruption of his predecessors.

Los Angeles Times

Mexican political parties are courting voters living in Texas ahead of Mexico’s presidential election

Mexican migrants in Texas could play a role in choosing the country’s next president next year, and Mexican political leaders are setting up outreach networks — including one in Dallas — to court expat voters.

The Texas Tribune

Cuban president to get Mexico's highest medal for foreigners

In the latest chapter in Mexico's love-fest with Cuba, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel will be awarded Mexico's highest medal when he visits the southern Mexico city of Campeche on Saturday

The Independent UK

Mexico's president says he won't seek an unconstitutional second term

His comments are important, because democracy in Latin America is in retreat. The president of El Salvador has announced he will defy constitutional term limits and run again for president next year.

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Mexico's president promises total withdrawal after term ends

Mexico's president is probably the most powerful political figure the country has had in decades

The Independent UK

Crashes on Mexico City's neglected subway kill dozens. The mayor's answer? Send in troops

MEXICO CITY — Luis Rodríguez spends three hours on the subway most days traveling between his home on the northern edge of Mexico City and his university 25 miles south.

Los Angeles Times

Mexico’s Government Is on Trial in New York

A former Mexican security official’s corruption charges reveal the hidden politics of the drug trade.

Foreign Policy

US drug trial opens for Mexico ex-security head

Genaro García Luna goes on trial on charges of helping the Sinaloa Cartel traffic drugs and protect them from capture while he was serving as Mexico’s top security official

The Independent UK

Ex-Mexico security chief’s trial poised to lift lid on US and Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’

Genaro García Luna, accused of accepting millions in bribes from cartels, in trial that could implicate officials on both sides of border

The Guardian - US

Commentary: Biden’s border policy struggles reflect a deeper neglect of Latin America

EL PASO, Texas — Perhaps the most fitting sight of President Joe Biden’s recent trip to the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border was this one: He went to the less important bridge spanning the Rio Grande.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: ‘Three Amigos’ summit over, the hard work of US, Mexico and Canada policymaking begins

The three North American leaders met in Mexico City this week, pledging more cooperation on increased migration in the region, energy policies and trade disputes. It was a hefty agenda for the first visit to Mexico by a U.S. president since 2014, but the trip was an important effort to…

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The Independent UK

Mexico and Canada leaders talk investment, energy dispute

Mexico’s president has lauded investments from Canada and says he will meet with Canadian companies that may have a problem with his energy policies

Los Angeles Times

US-Mexico-Canada summit deals lean toward symbolism, not substance

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a series of new commitments Tuesday designed to show regional cooperation on trade, migration and energy.

WEKU

Talks between Biden and Mexico's López Obrador got off to a bit of a rough start

The two leaders set out to talk about working together on migration, fentanyl interdiction and the economy. But first, they sparred over the history of U.S. support in Latin America.

The Independent UK

Biden, López Obrador, Trudeau meet in Mexico City for summit

President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are set to meet for a series of talks on migration, trade and climate change

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Analysis: Biden’s Mexico visit comes amid tension on immigration, fentanyl, energy

MEXICO CITY — In the first visit to Mexico by a U.S. leader in almost a decade, President Biden met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday to discuss trade, the drug war and record levels of illicit immigration in a wide-ranging conversation that was mostly cordial but…

The Independent UK

Biden flies in to López Obrador's new airport for summit

One of the most important diplomatic decisions by President Joe Biden at the gathering this week of North American leaders might have been his choice of airport

Tribune News Service

From chaos to opportunity: Could Biden’s Mexico and border visit change the narrative?

MEXICO CITY — President Joe Biden’s visit to Mexico this week, with a short layover in El Paso on Sunday, could change the border narrative from chaos to opportunity — at least that’s the hope of local leaders.

The Independent UK

Mexican capo's arrest a gesture to US, not signal of change

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

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 7 January 2023

The Sinaloa Cartel was dealt a significant blow this week with the capture of Ovidio Guzmán. You know the name. The city of Culiacán descended into an orgy of retaliatory violence.

Los Angeles Times

Cartel lays siege to Mexican city after recapture of the son of ‘El Chapo’

Armed men took hostages, burned vehicles and stormed an airport in northern Mexico on Thursday after federal forces captured Ovidio Guzmán, one of the world’s most wanted cartel leaders and the son of notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

The Independent UK

Drug lord, trafficker, killer of wedding singers: How the ‘New Mouse’ followed in the bloody footsteps of his father El Chapo

Ovidio Guzman’s arrest was hailed as a major blow to Mexico’s all-powerful Sinaloa Cartel. The son of the notorious El Chapo may now face extradition to the US, writes Bevan Hurley

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