Mexico’s AMLO is staking his presidential legacy on a highly contested 965-mile rail route in the Yucatán. ... García says the best option was to build it at ground level.

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Mary O'Grady, Bill McGurn, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. Images: Getty Images/The Roanoke Times via AP Composite: Mark Kelly When a July ...

AMLO’s policies have been significantly focused on the economy, ... The peso is at a 20-year peak, the best-performing major currency so far this year according to Bloomberg, ...

For the first time, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was present in a governmental report with Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, the governor of Baja California, being the only ...

In tandem with the growth of the industrial workforce in Mexico, the military grew from 60,000 to 453,000 troops between 1973 and 2022, including the 114,000-strong National Guard.

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger Photo: Mike Segar/Reuters In a report subtitled “Downgrade Mexico to Underweight,” Morgan ...

Welcome to The Daily 202! Tell your friends to sign up here. On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. Mexican President Andrés Manuel ...

Is Claudia Sheinbaum truly the best person to preserve those gains, and expand and improve them, and to lead the 4T—so associated with the outsize figure of AMLO—into these next crucial six ...

AMLO’s social approach to preventing violence will take years to translate into real change on the ground, if it ever works. His new National Guard will also take time to hire, train and cohere ...

Executive Influence over the Electoral System. AMLO has consistently voiced his opposition to the INE, an entity which he blames for losing the 2006 and 2012 presidential elections, and he has sought, ...

AMLO also wants to build a Mayan train in the Yucatán Peninsula, ... They estimate a 1 percent growth in the gross domestic product at best, perhaps less.

Despite such concerns, AMLO has stated he plans to move forward with the train. It is intended to run on 932 miles of track, nearly one third to be laid through tropical forests. It will pass ...