López Obrador, who is also known by his initials AMLO, not only attempted to replace Mexico's federal police with a new National Guard, but he's put the military in charge of major infrastructure ...

Mexico's Congress approved a reform to allow armed forces to continue working in the police force through 2028. President López Obrador supports the idea of relying on the military.

Two years into López Obrador’s term, Mexico’s armed forces have assumed a broader role in the country’s affairs than at any point since the end of military-led government in the 1940s.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has repeatedly ruled, including in a 2018 case against Mexico, that the military should only be used for law enforcement tasks in extraordinary ...

Mexico's president published a decree Monday authorizing the armed forces to participate in civilian law enforcement for four more years, to March 2024. Mexican soldiers and marines have been ...

Reporting from Mexico City — Mexico’s ruling party rammed a bill through Congress’ lower house Thursday giving the military legal justification to act as police, steamrolling objections by ...

President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s plan to create a military-controlled National Guard is the wrong approach to the country’s public security crisis.

Mexico’s president dislikes police and would like to rely on the military for everything. He dissolved the old federal police, accusing them of corruption, and cut almost all federal funding for ...

Mexico's military is trying to relaunch the country's oldest airline — part of a worrying trend of militarization in the country. Travelers in Mexico could soon be flying on an airline owned and ...

Mexico's military police on Saturday halted and turned back a caravan of up to 2,000 migrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Central America, hours after they embarked towards the United States ...

To curb violence and drug trafficking, Mexico needs functioning civilian police forces and court systems, not US military strikes and boots on the ground.

Mexico’s president dislikes police and would like to rely on the military for everything. He dissolved the old federal police, accusing them of corruption, and cut almost all federal funding for ...