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Mexican police official resigns ahead of shake-up
One of Mexico’s top federal police officials has announced his resignation, rejecting charges of corruption and promising to elaborate on his motivation after he steps down in January. The move by Luis Cardenas Palomino, the top cop in charge of regional security, comes as President Enrique Pena Nieto seeks to…
Mexico to create new police force to fight drug cartels
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced the creation of a national police force to crack down on crime and battle the country’s powerful drug cartels. The force — a gendarmerie based on the model of Spain’s Guardia Civil — would be 10,000 strong. Currently Mexico has a patchwork of city…
Mexico’s new prez signs five-point pact with opposition parties
A day after taking office, President Enrique Pena Nieto signed a pact with rivals Sunday to strengthen democracy, in what could be a bold break with his party’s bad old days. The “Pact for Mexico” was agreed after hard bargaining among Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National…
Mexico’s Obrador refuses to accept defeat, eyes new party
With 100,000 people chanting “revolution,” Mexican leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador urged supporters Sunday to consider forming a new party and peacefully defy president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto. Addressing a rally in Mexico City’s main square, Lopez Obrador again refused to recognize Pena Nieto as the winner of the July 1…
Mexico urges U.S. to join drug policy ‘review’
WASHINGTON — Mexico’s incoming president Enrique Pena Nieto called Sunday for a “new debate” on the drug war raging in his country and urged the United States to play a “fundamental role” in the review. A week after returning the once-authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to power on campaign promises…
Tens of thousands protest Mexican presidential election results
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Mexico CitySaturday against the presidential election win of Enrique Pena Nieto, accusing him and his party of widespread vote-buying. The marchers claim Pena Nieto, from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), “bought” his way to victory by handing out gift cards and securing paid favorable media coverage from the country’s two…
Pena Nieto wins Mexico’s presidential election
Enrique Pena Nieto decisively won Mexico’s presidential election, the electoral office said Friday, issuing final vote results following a demand for a recount by his closest rival. Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who had contested the provisional tally, scored 31.59 percent of the vote, against 38.21 percent for Pena…
Mexico’s Pena Nieto seeks U.S. help on violence
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s presumed president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto expressed hope Monday for more US help in tamping a scourge of violence that has killed over 50,000 people in less than five years. While Washington is focused on cracking down on crime syndicates responsible for smuggling illegal drugs into the…
PRI’s Pena Nieto claims victory in Mexico presidential vote
Enrique Pena Nieto, the youthful candidate of the party that governed Mexico for decades, claimed victory in the country’s presidential election. The candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) cited the first official results announced by the independent Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) as proof that he won. The results showed…
Mexico’s PRI set for election victory
The PRI, the party that ran Mexico for most of the 20th century, appears set to return to national power Sunday led by their handsome presidential candidate and his glamorous TV-star wife. If pre-vote surveys are correct, the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s Enrique Pena Nieto will coast to victory, with hundreds…
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