President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Sunday formally inaugurated the National Guard, a militarized police force aimed at cracking down on the country's growing crime rate and securing its borders.

Mexico inaugurates its new National Guard force

Mexico's president on Saturday hinted his country could tighten migration controls to defuse US President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Mexican goods, and said he expected "good results" from talks planned in Washington next week.

Mexican president hints at migration concessions to defuse US trade spat

"America First is a fallacy," Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told US President Donald Trump in a letter on Thursday, responding to a White House announced it was imposing a blanket 5% tariff on all goods from Mexico from June 10.

'America First is a fallacy,' Mexico's president responds to Trump tariff

Mexico's environment minister resigned on Saturday after causing a commercial flight to be delayed, making her the second top official to depart from the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in less than a week.

Mexico environment minister quits, second top official to exit this week

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his government will order an end to tax forgiveness for the country's largest companies, saying $20 billion in exemptions given by his predecessors was akin to theft by gangsters.

No more 'white collar theft': Mexico orders end to corporate tax breaks

Mexico will help to regulate the flow of Central American migrants passing through its territory to the United States, but the root causes behind the phenomenon must be tackled, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday.

Mexican president wants to 'bring order' to Central American migration to US

The 500-year-old wounds of the Spanish conquest were ripped open afresh on Monday when Mexico's president urged Spain and the Vatican to apologize for their "abuses" -- a request Madrid said it "firmly rejects.

Mexico demands apology for colonial 'abuses,' Spain says no

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday he had ordered Mexican authorities to help two sisters of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman visit the drug lord in the United States following his conviction for narcotics trafficking.

Mexican president to help 'El Chapo's' sisters visit him in US

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador visited the birthplace of the country's most infamous drug trafficker, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, on Friday, calling for peace and reconciliation days after a US jury convicted the kingpin.

Mexican president visits 'El Chapo's' home turf seeking reconciliation

Two cub reporters who work for a children-oriented radio station got the chance on Thursday to ask questions of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. "Let's see, the children, are they reporters?

We all have to take care, Mexico President tells cub reporters on 40,000 disappearances

*By Angelica Duran-Martinez Nearly 34,000 people were murdered in Mexico last year, according to new government statistics - the deadliest year since modern record-keeping began.

Mexico is bleeding. Can its new President stop the violence?

Mexico is prepared to host President Nicolas Maduro and his opposition rival, self-declared interim president Juan Guaido, for talks to resolve Venezuela's spiraling crisis, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday.

Venezuela: Opposition leader Juan Guaido rules out crisis talks, says Maduro can not be trusted

The number of people who died from a gasoline pipeline explosion in central Mexico last week has risen to 94, government officials said on Tuesday, from 91 reported a day earlier.

Death toll in Mexico gasoline pipeline blast climbs to 94: Officials

Mexico suffered a record 33,341 homicides in 2018, according to official statistics released Monday, breaking the record set in 2017, as violence fueled by a war on the country's powerful drug cartels plagues the country.

Mexico murders set new record in 2018: Official statistics

The death toll from the explosion of a pipeline ruptured by suspected fuel thieves in central Mexico has risen to 66, the governor of the state of Hidalgo said on Saturday.

Death toll from Mexico fuel pipeline blast rises to 66

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday he owns no real estate, vehicles or personal property, echoing what experts say is a pattern among the country's politicians of shifting assets to relatives.

Mexican president owns no cars or real estate, but his wife does

Mexican and US citizens who live near the border separating San Diego and Tijuana said a threat from US President Donald Trump to close the southern US border with Mexico unless he gets the money he wants for a wall would wreak havoc on their livelihoods.

People living near border slam Trump’s threat to close US border with Mexico

The governor of the Mexican state of Puebla and her husband, a senator and former governor, were killed on Monday in a helicopter crash, the country's president said.

Helicopter crash kills Mexican governor, senator husband

The United States, hoping to stem migration, said Tuesday it was ready to support $4.5 billion in investment in Central America and southern Mexico. The United States promised to back new Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's push for development in Central America, the primary source of migrants whose unauthorized entry into the United States has become a central focus for President Donald Trump.

US offers $4.5 billion investment in Central America, Mexico

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday that he will ask the Senate to reform the Mexican Constitution to eliminate a provision barring criminal prosecution of the head of state for any offense short of treason.

Mexico President Lopez Obrador wants to eliminate presidential immunity

Veteran leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was sworn in as Mexican president on Saturday, promising radical change in a country struggling to overcome gang violence, chronic poverty and corruption on the doorstep of the United States.

In first presidential speech, Mexico's Lopez Obrador promises radical change

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will be sworn in as Mexico's next president Saturday, as a country fed up with corruption, crime and poverty seeks a new direction under the divisive anti-establishment leftist.

Mexico heads for new era under leftist president Lopez Obrador

Lopez Obrador, the former Mexico City mayor, is the first choice of 46 per cent of voters surveyed while his nearest rival, Ricardo Anaya, who heads a right-left coalition, has 26 per cent support

Mexican leftist Lopez Obrador opens 20-point lead in presidential poll

The poll was the first conducted by Ipsos

Mexican leftist leads by 13.6 point in presidency race - opinion poll